Ismihan Sultan
| Ismihan baharnaz sultan | |||||
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c. 1544 Manisa, Ottoman Empire |
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| Died | 7 August 1585 (aged 41) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
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| Burial | Hagia Sophia | ||||
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| House | House of Osman | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
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| Ismihan Sultan |
Ismihan Sultan (c. 1544 – 7 August 1585) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Selim II (reign 1566-74) and Nurbanu Sultan. She was the granddaughter of Suleiman the Magnificent (reign 1520-66) and his favourite consort and legal wife Hürrem Sultan, sister of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574-95) and aunt of Sultan Mehmed III (reign 1595-1603).
Ismihan or Esmahan Sultan was born in 1544 at Manisa to Şehzade Selim (future Selim II) and his favourite consort Nurbanu Sultan.
Strong alliances were made for the daughters of Selim, the prince who would succeed Suleiman: Esmahan married Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Gevherhan the admiral Piyalen, and Şah the chief falconer Hasan Agha. On 1 August 1562 Suleiman celebrated the triple wedding of his heir Selim's daughters Esmahan, Gevherhan and Şah to Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Piyale Pasha and Hasan Agha respectively and the same day, his executed son Şehzade Mustafa's daughter Mihrişah Sultan was married to Damat Abdülkerim Pasha.
In September 1566, upon the death of her grandfather Suleiman the Magnificent, she came to Istanbul with her mother and sisters, and enjoyed great power in Topkapı Palace. She was very influential in the harems of Selim II and of her brother Murad III, and was at the bottom of many palace schemes and presented a couple of concubines to her brother. She was the most powerful daughter of Selim II because she was married to the Grand Vizier. She received 300 aspers a day during the reign of her brother Murad III.
In fact, during Murad's reign there was a huge internal concurrence between the Harem factions, while Nurbanu Sultan and her daughters Esmahan, Gevherhan and Şah provided Murad with a plenty of concubines, in opposition with Safiye Sultan who was given the title of Haseki Sultan just after his accession to the throne in 1575, and was given a higher rank than all the others princesses including Esmahan's sisters and her aunt Mihrimah Sultan who supported Safiye.
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