Jahangir

Jahangir (1569-1627), fourth Mughal emperor of India (1605-1627), the eldest son of Emperor Akbar, born in Fatehpur Sikri. He rebelled (1601-1604) against his father but was pardoned and acceded to the throne (1605), only to be faced with rebellion by his own eldest son, Khosrau. The decisive event of Jahangir's reign was his marriage (1611) to Nur Jahan, an Iranian widow, who gradually became the real ruler of the empire; his last years were plagued by her intrigues and by the rebellion of his third son, who eventually succeeded him as Shah Jahan. Jahangir was a patron and connoisseur of the arts and a skillful poet who also wrote a volume of memoirs of his reign.