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1. Babur (1526-1530) 2. Humayun (1508 –1556) Masuma Sultan Begum: Kamran Mirza (1512 –1557) Gulchehra Begum: Askari Mirza (1518 –1557) Hindal Mirza
Akbar (reigned 1556–1605) was born Jalal-ud-din Muhammad [20] in the Umarkot Fort, [21] to Humayun and his wife Hamida Banu Begum, a Persian princess. [22] Akbar succeeded to the throne under a regent, Bairam Khan , who helped consolidate the Mughal Empire in India. [ 23 ]
Babur Family Tree 17th-century portrait of Babur. Babur's memoirs form the main source for details of his life. They are known as the Baburnama and were written in Chagatai, his first language, [28] though, according to Dale, "his Turkic prose is highly Persianized in its sentence structure, morphology or word formation and vocabulary."
Humayun was born as Nasir al-Din Muhammad to Babur's favorite wife Māham Begum on Tuesday 6 March 1508. According to Abul Fazl, Māham was related to the noble family of Sultan Husayn Bayqara, the Timurid ruler of Herat.
After Mughal Emperor Humayun was defeated at Chausa (1539) and Kannauj (1540) by the forces of Sher Shah Suri, Humayun fled westward to modern-day Sindh. [19] There, he met and married the 14-year-old Hamida Banu Begum, daughter of Shaikh Ali Akbar Jami, a Persian teacher of Humayun's younger brother Hindal Mirza.
The Mughal dynasty (Persian: دودمان مغل, romanized: Dudmân-e Mughal) or the House of Babur (Persian: خاندانِ آلِ بابُر, romanized: Khāndān-e-Āl-e-Bābur), was a branch of the Timurid dynasty founded by Babur that ruled the Mughal Empire from its inception in 1526 till the early eighteenth century, and then as ceremonial suzerains over much of the empire until 1857.
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001–2005."Tamerlane, c.1336–1405, Turkic conqueror, b. Kesh, near Samarkand. He is also called Timur Leng (Faisal R.). The son of a tribal leader, in 1370 Timur became an in-law of a direct descendant of Genghis Khan, when he destroyed the army of Husayn of Balkh.
Kamran Mirza was born in Kabul to Babur's wife Gulrukh Begum. He was half-brother to Babur's eldest son Humayun, who would go on and inherit the Mughal throne, but he was full-brother to Babur's third son, Askari. A divan written in Persian and Chagatai is attributed to him.