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On Murad's death in 1595 Mehmed III, his eldest son and new sultan, son of Safiye Sultan, executed the 19 half-brothers still alive and drowned seven pregnant concubines, fulfilling the Law of Fraticide.
Mehmed III (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثالث, Meḥmed-i sālis; Turkish: III. Mehmed ; 26 May 1566 – 22 December 1603) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death in 1603. Mehmed was known for ordering the execution of his brothers and leading the army in the Long Turkish War , during which the Ottoman army was ...
Şehzade Mahmud (Ottoman Turkish: شہزادہ محمود; c. 1587 – 7 June 1603) was an Ottoman prince, the son of sultan Mehmed III and Halime Sultan.He was the grandson of sultan Murad III and Safiye Sultan, the half-brother of the future sultan Ahmed I and the brother of sultan Mustafa I.
Following his father’s early death in 1617, he, along with his mother and brothers, were banished to the Old Palace (Eski Sarayı). After Murad ’s accession in 1623, Kasım was confined in the Kafes , which was the part of the Imperial Harem where possible successors to the throne were kept under a form of house-arrest and constant ...
He was beheaded in front of the weeping Mehmed III on the threshold of the third gate of Topkapi. Among the many who died with him were his brother Cafer, the husband of his sister Beatrice (who survived with her son, who later became a musahibe of Sultan Murad IV with name of Mehmed Bey) and the kızlarağası Osman Agha. [2] [3] [4]
During the eventual reign of Mehmed II (1451–1481), fratricide was legalized as an official practice; during the reign of Bayezid II (1481–1512), fratricide between Bayezid II's sons occurred before Bayezid II himself died; [9] and after the reign of Murad III (1574–1595), his successor Mehmed III executed 19 brothers to claim the throne ...
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: Ahmed I 1590–1617 Sultan and Caliph r. 1603–1617: Kösem Sultan: Mustafa I 1591–1639 Sultan and Caliph r. 1617–1618 r. 1622–1623: Osman II 1604–1622 Sultan and Caliph r ...
Alexander's narrative then claims that eventually, Alexander's two older brothers died, but in 1603, since Alexander had escaped the country to avoid fratricide, his nephew Ahmed I became the Ottoman sultan. Alexander believed that as the next oldest son of Murad III, he was next in line to be Ottoman Sultan and felt cheated out of his rightful ...