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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 ...
Sultana consort. Title for the chief consort of the sultan in the 16th century and originally could not be held by more than one consort simultaneously. In later periods, the meaning of the title began to change from chief consort to something more general like a senior imperial consort when Sultan Ibrahim granted this title for his eight consorts.
Most of the consorts of the Ottoman sultans were slave concubines rather than legal wives. The phrase "consort" includes all consorts, both legal wives and concubines. Concubines was by Islamic law by definition slaves, with different rights from wives. The consorts can be placed in the subcategories wives or concubines.
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.
Sayyida Ahad bin Abdullah is the consort of Sultan Haitham bin Tariq. Royal consorts of Oman are women that have been married to the Sultan of Oman. Sultan Qaboos bin Said was unmarried for most of his reign so Oman was without a first lady for over 50 years until the accession of Sultan Haitham bin Tariq in 2020.
For main consort of the Ruler of Selangor, she will be given the title of Tengku Ampuan of Selangor if they have royal blood meanwhile for consorts of non-royal blood, they will be titled as Tengku Permaisuri of Selangor.
Ayşe Hatun was married firstly in 1504 to Selim's brother Şehzade Mehmed, Sancak Bey of Kefe, son of Ferahşad Hatun and became widow by his death in same year.. Her marriage was one of only two examples of marriages between the Ottoman dynasty and the Giray dynasty; the other one was those, alleged, between a Selim's daughter, maybe Gevherhan Sultan, to Saadet I Giray.
In 1463, Mehmed executed David, three of his sons and his nephew Alexius (son of Alexander of Trebizond and Maria Gattilusio, who later became a consort of Mehmed II) on charges of communicating with the Sultan's enemies Uzun Hasan and his wife Despina Khatun (David's niece as daughter of John IV of Trabzon).