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Kayqubad II (Old Anatolian Turkish: كَیقُباد Persian: علاء الدين كيقباد بن كيخسرو ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Kaykhusraw) was the youngest of the three sons of the Seljuq Sultan of Rûm Kaykhusraw II. As son of the sultan’s favorite wife the Georgian princess Tamar he was designated heir. He had a weak constitution and was likely seven years old at the time of his father’s death in 1246 being born ca. 1238/39.