Christopher Marlowe wrote a play about, for 10 points, what Turkic Muslim conqueror who got his nickname because he walked with a limp.
Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo was the Castilian ambassador to the court of this leader, who designated Pir Muhammad as his successor before he died en route to China. He won the Battle of Kondurcha against Tokhtamysh, and he constructed the Gur-e-Amir in his capital of Samarqand. He built pyramids of skulls outside Delhi and Damascus, and he captured Bayezid, the Ottoman sultan. Christopher Marlowe wrote a play about, for 10 points, what Turkic Muslim conqueror who got his nickname because he walked with a limp.
Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo was the Castilian ambassador to the court of this leader, who designated Pir Muhammad as his successor before he died en route to China.
{Timur} the Lame [or {Tamerlane} or {Tamburlaine} or {Timur}-i Lang]