 After his father ascended to the Ottoman throne, he made Murad governor of the Amasya Sanjak.Murad remained at Amasya until the death of Mehmed I in 1421.He was solemnly recognized as sultan of the Ottoman Sultanate at sixteen years of age, girded with the sabre of Osman at Bursa, and the troops and officers of the state willingly paid homage to him as their sovereign.