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Hürrem Sultan (Turkish: [hyɾˈɾæm suɫˈtan]; Ottoman Turkish: خرّم سلطان, "the joyful one"; c. 1504 – 15 April 1558), also known as Roxelana (Ukrainian: Роксолана, romanized: Roksolana), was the chief consort, the first Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and the mother of Suleiman's successor Selim II.
Suleiman I (Ottoman Turkish: سليمان اول Süleyman-ı Evvel; Modern Turkish: I. Süleyman, IPA:; 6 November 1494 – 6 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the Western world and as Suleiman the Lawgiver (قانونى سلطان سليمان Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān) in his own realm, was the Ottoman sultan between 1520 and his death in 1566.
Şehzade Abdullah (c. 1525 – c. 1528) was an Ottoman prince, son of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his favorite Hurrem Sultan. [1] [2] [3] He was born around 1525 in Eski Saray, the Ottoman Empire and died due to a disease, possibly smallpox, in Constantinople, around 1528. He was buried in the Yavuz Selim Mosque [3] [2]
Şehzade Cihangir (Ottoman Turkish: شهزاده جهانگير; 1531 – 27 November 1553) was an Ottoman prince, the sixth and youngest child of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hürrem Sultan.
The death of a sultan's consort or mother could inspire even greater extravagance. For example, the death of Hürrem Sultan brought crowds of mourners onto the streets, including the sultan himself, who was normally expected to isolate himself in the palace during the funeral of a family member. On this occasion coins and food were distributed ...
In 1561, eight years after Mustafa's death, the French author Gabriel Bounin wrote a tragedy titled La Soltane about the role of Hürrem Sultan in Mustafa's death. [49] This tragedy marks the first time the Ottomans were introduced on stage in France. [50] Anonymous 1581 Cambridge play Solymannidae. [51] Anton Maria Caspi's 1606 French play Il ...
His mother was Hürrem Sultan, [2] [3] an Orthodox priest's daughter, [4] who was the current Sultan's concubine at the time. In 1533 or 1534, his mother, Hürrem, was freed and became Suleiman's legal wife. [5] [6] He had four brothers, Şehzade Mehmed, Şehzade Selim (future Selim II), Şehzade Abdullah and Şehzade Cihangir, and a sister ...
His mother was Hürrem Sultan, [4] [5] an Orthodox priest's daughter. [6] In 1533 or 1534, his mother, Hurrem, was freed and became Suleiman's legal wife. [7] He had four younger brothers, Şehzade Selim (future Selim II), Şehzade Abdullah, who died at the age of three years, Şehzade Bayezid, and Şehzade Cihangir, and a younger sister ...