Lotf Ali Khan the last ethnically Iranian king of Iran before his overthrow in 1794 with the ascent of the Turkic Qajar dynasty who ruled Iran from 1794-1925.
>It is said that Lotf Ali Khan was uniquely handsome and tremendously skillful with the sword. Finally, Lotf Ali Khan was betrayed by the ruler of Bam who feared that his brother had fallen into Qajar hands in Kerman. According to legend, Lotf Ali Khan fought 14 men single-handedly for two full hours before falling.
>The last of the Zand rulers was finally delivered to Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, who had long waited to exact revenge on his arch-rival. "The page of history would be stained by a recital of the indignities offered to the royal captive..."[1] It is reported that Lotf Ali Khan was blinded. Lotf Ali Khan was imprisoned and tortured in Tehran before being choked to death in the late of 1794.
>The British writer Sir Harford Jones Brydges knew Lotf Ali personally, whom he called, "the last chivalrous figure among the kings of Persia." Brydges writes sadly of Lotf Ali's death, of his "little son" who was castrated, his daughters who were forced to marry "the scum of the earth" and his wife who was dishonoured.