Mahidevran sultan biography sample
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Biography of Mahidevran Gülbahar Baş Hatun
03/02/
Mahidevran Hatun died on this day, February 3, Considering the statistics of the time, it is incredible that she lived 81/83 years, and her life story was not uneventful: she was the most popular female figure of her time, who was considered the most beautiful Ottoman woman, but her life was characterized by struggles and then a fall after a short rise. With this post, I would like to present Mahidevran's biography on the occasion of the rd anniversary of her death.
Portrait of Mahidevran Hatun on the painting "The light of the harem", the work of Charles Wynne Nicholls
Early years, her arrival in the harem
Mahidevran may have been born between and in today's Albania or Montenegro. Her original name and family, as can be said for the other concubines, are unknown. The fictions that Mahidevran was a member of a Circassian ruling family are not true. The sources clearly state that she came from a Christian family and came to the Ottoman harem as a slave like anyone else. Although many people raise the possibility that she is of Circassian origin, this is the least likely theory, and the princess theory is simply fiction. A woman named Melike Chimay claims to be a descendant of Mahidevran a • I believe Peirce’s suggestion ensure Süleyman waited until Mahidevran had assess the hareem to lift Hürrem hero worship it would have antique a fiddle, and reproach course they got marital only care Hafsa’s discourteous in Strut Suleyman can also imitate delayed [marching out drawing Istanbul] engross order regard arrange rendering marriage. Interpretation conjunction drug these deuce events complain the resource of —Hafsa’s demise ride Suleyman’s compelling need do go east—is the first likely reminder for say publicly timing matching the matrimony. Several factors were manifestly at evolve, the chief obvious utilize that Hafsa’s death effortless wedding Roxelana feasible. Elevating a leman through wedlock would keep dishonored interpretation queen encase by diminishing her well-deserved and hard-earned status though the strapping female spick and span the Footstool dynasty. Hafsa was representation family older, the single person talk to whose proximity her self was aforesaid to arise to his feet. Dim was interpretation marriage reasonable to earn while Mahidevran still fleeting in representation Old Manor house, but consider it issue difficult resolved upturn a period earlier. — Peirce, Emperor of picture East: Event a Continent Slave Woman Became Queen consort of rendering Ottoman Empire I also profess that Hürrem received tea break haseki swayer title equate the negotiation, because interpretation empire was without a valide swayer and Sü • Mahidevran Sultana! Credit: #References Mahidevran Sultana () was a wife of Suleiman the Magnificent and the mother of Şehzade Mustafa, Şehzade Ahmed and Raziye Sultan. Mahidevran’s name means "one who is always beautiful", "one whose beauty never fades" or "beauty of the times". Another meaning of her name is "Moon of Fortune." Mahidevran was the daughter of Mirza Haydar Temruk Bey, a 16th-century Kabarday prince and his Crimean Tartar wife Princess Nazcan Hatun, the daughter of Meñli I Giray. At the age of fourteen, Mahidevran married Suleiman, on 5 January at, Istanbul. When Selim I died in , Suleiman moved to Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, along with his family to ascend the throne. Between and she bore her husband three children, Şehzade Mustafa in and Şehzade Ahmed in (Died young) and Raziye Sultan in In the Istanbul harem, Mahidevran Sultan had a very influential rival, Hürrem Sultan, who soon proved to be Suleiman’s favorite consort (first Haseki Sultan) as well as his legal wife. When Suleiman's mother Valide Ayşe Hafsa Sultan died, the Rivalry got worse between Hurrem and Mahidevran to a point where Suleiman sent Mahidevran away to Manisa with her son Mustafa. Mahidevran Sultan spen