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Umayyad dynasty

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Arab Hijaz dynasty

  • Dated from 661 CE
  • Also called Umayyads, Ommiades, Banū Umayya
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The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan c. 646 CE – 705 CE

4 children in the house

  1. Al-Walid I 668 CE – 715 CE 2 children in the house
  2. Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik 675 CE – 717 CE
  3. Yazid II 687 CE – 724 CE
  4. Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik 691 CE – 743 CE
One family in Umayyad dynasty: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

Every member

People whose own records place them in this house.

Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

Umayyad Caliph

  • 9 holders
  • 2 gaps
  1. 1st 28 July 661 CE – 27 April 680 CE Mu'awiya I founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate (r. 661–680)
  2. 2nd 27 April 680 CE – 11 November 683 CE Yazid I second caliph of the Umayyad caliphate (646-683)

  3. Gap about 2 years before the next in this house

    5th 12 April 685 CE – 4 October 705 CE Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan Umayyad caliph from 685 to 705
  4. 6th 9 October 705 CE – 23 February 715 CE Al-Walid I Umayyad caliph
  5. 7th 23 February 715 CE – 24 September 717 CE Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik Umayyad caliph

  6. Gap about 3 years before the next in this house

    9th 9 February 720 CE – 28 January 724 CE Yazid II Umayyad caliph
  7. 10th 26 January 724 CE – 6 February 743 CE Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik tenth Umayyad caliph
  8. 12th 17 April 744 CE – 4 October 744 CE Yazid III Umayyad caliph in 744
  9. 13th 4 October 744 CE – 4 December 744 CE Ibrahim ibn al-Walid Umayyad caliph in 744

Governor of the Levant

  • 2 holders
  1. 640 CE – 661 CE Mu'awiya I founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate (r. 661–680)
  2. 640 CE Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan 7th-century Arab military commander

Affiliation

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Affiliations recorded on members

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Connections

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Place 1

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