Editing Mehmed I (section)

==Death==
[[File:Yeşil Türbe - 01.jpg|thumb|262px|His mausoleum, [[Green Tomb]], in [[Bursa]]]]
[[File:Akçe - Mehmed Çelebi in the name of Timur.png|thumb|1404 AD dated ''[[akçe]]'' of Mehmed citing Timur as overlord]]
The reign of Mehmed I as sultan of the re-united empire lasted only eight years before his death, but he had also been the most powerful brother contending for the throne and ''de facto'' ruler of most of the empire for nearly the whole preceding period of 11 years of the [[Ottoman Interregnum]] that passed between his father's captivity at [[Battle of Ankara|Ankara]] and his own final victory over his brother [[Musa Çelebi]] at the [[Battle of Çamurlu]].<ref>Halil  İnalcık, "Meḥemmed I" (1991). .</ref>

Before his death, to secure passing the throne safely to his son Murad II, Mehmed [[Blinding (punishment)|blinded]] his nephew Orhan Çelebi (son of Süleyman), and decided to send his two sons Yusuf and Mahmud to be held as a hostage by [[Manuel II Palaiologos|Emperor Manuel II]], hoping to ensure the continuing custody of his brother Mustafa.<ref>{{TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi|title=MEHMED I|author=Halil İnalcık|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/mehmed-i|lang=tr}}</ref>

He was buried in Bursa, in a mausoleum erected by himself near the celebrated mosque which he built there, and which, because of its decorations of green glazed tiles, is called the [[Green Mosque (Bursa)|Green Mosque]]. Mehmed I also completed another mosque in Bursa, which his grandfather [[Murad I]] had commenced but which had been neglected during the reign of [[Bayezid I|Bayezid]]. Mehmed founded in the vicinity of his own Green Mosque and mausoleum two other characteristic institutions, one a school and one a refectory for the poor, both of which he endowed with royal munificence.