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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.
The first haseki sultan was Roxelana, victim of the Crimean slave trade and wife of Süleyman the Magnificent, who became known as Hürrem Sultan after her conversion to Islam. Roxelana was mistakenly assumed to be of Russian descent, probably because of a mistranslation of her name, and European visitors treated her as Russian.
Selim was born on 28 May 1524 [3] in Constantinople during the reign of his father, Suleiman the Magnificent. [4] His mother was Hürrem Sultan, [5] [6] an Orthodox priest's daughter, [7] 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.
Hürrem (Roxelana), the haseki sultan during Suleiman's reign.. The 16th century was marked by Suleiman's rule, in which he created the title of haseki sultan, the chief consort or wife of the sultan, and further expanded the role of royal women in politics by contributing to the creation of the second most powerful position in the Ottoman Empire, valide sultan, the mother of the sultan.
Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana) Suleiman the Magnificent 1494–1566 Sultan and Caliph r. 1520–1566: Nurbanu Sultan: Selim II 1524–1574 Sultan and Caliph r. 1566–1574: Safiye Sultan: Murad III 1546–1595 Sultan and Caliph r. 1574–1595: Handan Sultan: Mehmed III 1566–1603 Sultan and Caliph r. 1595–1603: Halime Sultan [4] Mahfiruz Hatun ...
He had four elder brothers, Şehzade Mehmed, Şehzade Selim (future Selim II), Şehzade Bayezid and Şehzade Abdullah, who died at three years old, and an elder sister Mihrimah Sultan. [1] [2] He was educated together with his older brothers under supervision of his time. He wrote poems with the pen name Zarifi, and was also interested in ...
However, when Selim died in 1520, Üveys laid no claim to throne because of Ottoman tradition which states that princes born to a stepfather have no right to ascend to throne. (This principle was similar to Byzantine tradition of Porphyrogenitos ) [ 2 ] Suleiman I ascended to throne and he was careful to keep Üveys at the far reaches of his ...
Selim I (Ottoman Turkish: سليم اول; Turkish: I. Selim; 10 October 1470 – 22 September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute [3] (Turkish: Yavuz Sultan Selim), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. [4]