- Wattasid dynasty
The Wattassids (وطاسيون waṭāsīyūn) or Banû Watâs (بنو الوطاس banū al-waṭās) were an
Amazigh dynasty ofKingdom of Fez . They followed the AmazighMarinids and were followed by theSaadi, also of Amazigh descent.Like the
Marinid s, they had their origins in the BerberZenata s. The two families were related, and the Marinids recruited manyviziers from the Wattasids. These viziers assumed the powers of theSultan s, seizing power when the last Marinid,Abu Muhammad Abd al-Haqq , who had massacred many of the Wattasids in 1459, was murdered during a popular revolt in Fez in 1465.Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Mahdi was the first Wattasid Sultan, but controlled only northern Morocco, the south being dominated by theSaadi dynasty .The Wattasids were finally replaced by the
Saadi Dynasty in1554 .The dynasty
Wattasid Viziers
*1420-1448 :
Abu Zakariya Yahya
*1448-1458 :Ali ibn Yusuf
*1458-1459 :Yahya ibn Abi Zakariya Yahya Wattasid Sultans
*1472-1504 :
Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya
*1504-1526 :Abu Abd Allah al-Burtuqali Muhammad ibn Muhammad
*1526-1526 :Abu al-Hasan Abu Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad
*1526-1545 :Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad
*1545-1547 :Nasir ad-Din al-Qasri Muhammad ibn Ahmad
*1547-1549 :Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad
*1554-1554 :Abu al-Hasan Abu Hasun Ali ibn Muhammad
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