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When Mehmed became sultan, she often provided him with advice. [11] Her court at Ježevo included exiled Serbian nobles. [12] According to Nicol, Mara was joined at "Ježevo" by her sister "Cantacuzina" in 1469. The two ladies acted as intermediaries between Mehmed and the Republic of Venice during the first Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479).
Mehmed II was the last sultan to legally marry until 1533/1534, when Suleiman the Magnificent married his favorite concubine Hürrem Sultan. Mehmed II's eight known consorts are: [ 126 ] Gülbahar Hatun [ 127 ] [ 128 ] Mother of Bayezid II.
Gülbahar entered in Mehmed's harem in 1446, when he was still a prince and the governor of Amasya.She had at least two children, a daughter, Gevherhan Hatun, born in 1446, who married Ughurlu Muhammad in 1474, [18] and a son, Şehzade Bayezid (the future Bayezid II), born in 1447 in Demotika.
Sultan (سلطان) is a word of Arabic origin, originally meaning "authority" or "dominion". By the beginning of the 16th century, the title of sultan, carried by both men and women of the Ottoman dynasty, was replacing other titles by which prominent members of the imperial family had been known (notably hatun for women and bey for men), with imperial women carrying the title of "Sultan ...
Sittişah Hatun was the daughter of Suleiman Beg, the sixth ruler of Dulkadir State and the niece of Emine Hatun, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed I's wife. [2] [3] He is described as a man of unshapely corpulence and pathological sensuality but also as a skillful horseman and the owner of magnificent stables, possessed a considerable army of brave, devoted Turk men and was fabulously wealthy, two ...
Aynışah Sultan (1482 - 1540), she married Ahmed Pasha. Buried in the Şirin Hatun 's mausoleum, Bursa, with her mother. Şahnisa Sultan (1484 - 1540), she married firstly her cousin Şehzade Mehmed Şah (died in 1512, son of Şehzade Şehinşah, son of Bayezid II); secondly Mirza Mehmed Pasha (died in 1517) and had a son, Sultanzade Şemsi ...
In 1474, Gevherhan married Ughurlu Muhammad, a son of Aq Qoyunlu ruler, Uzun Hassan. [3] Ughurlu Muhammad had rebelled against his father and sought refuge by the Ottomans. [4] Her father welcomed him and got him married to Gevherhan. [5] Ottoman princesses of Mehmed's time not married non-Ottomans, whereas it was more frequent in the past.
The Despot Demetrios who ruled at Mistra seems to have allowed the Sultan to conquer the Peloponnese because Mehmed had promised to take his daughter to wife. She was his only child and heiress to all that he had. Mehmed, however, no longer wanted to marry Demetrios's daughter; and she died as a virgin at Adrianople. [1]