Hümaşah Sultan (daughter of Murad III)
Hümaşah Sultan was the eldest daughter of Murad III and Safiye Sultan.
| Hümaşah Sultan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1565 Manisa |
| Died | Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey) |
| Burial | Mehmed III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul |
| Spouse |
Nişar Mustafazade Mehmed Pasha
(died 1586) |
| Dynasty | Ottoman |
| Father | Murad III |
| Mother | Safiye Sultan |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Early life[]
She is known to have been born in Manisa, so she is considered to be the daughter of Safiye Sultan. She was named after Murat's cousin Hümaşah, who introduced her mother to her father in princehood. That she is the eldest daughter of Safiye is indicated by the fact that she married Nisar Mustafazade Mehmed Pasha in the early 1580s. After Pasha's death in 1586, Hümaşah is no longer mentioned, and nothing more is known about her.[1]
Later life[]
The further fate of Hümaşah Sultan remains unknown. There is a presumption that she died during her marriage to Mehmed Pasha, because after his death in 1586 she is not mentioned anywhere. There are also beliefs that she died during the seventeenth century, which is more probable.
Since it is also stated that Ferhat Pasha was the son-in-law of Safiye Sultan and that he married her daughter,[2] there is a possibility that it was Hümaşah, because all the marriages of her daughters Ayşe, Fatma and Mihrimah are already known. The fact that this marriage took place has not been officially confirmed by historians. Some even mention directly that Ferhad Pasha's wife was Hümaşah Sultan.[3][4]
In popular culture[]
In the series Magnificent Century - Kosem, the character of Hümaşah Sultan, the eldest daughter of Safiye Sultan, was shown by the actress Vildan Atasever. It is shown in the series that she was married to Yemenli Hasan Pasha and Zülfikar Pasha, but these are most likely untrue facts.
References[]
- ^ Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 217.
- ^ Kohen, Elli (2007). History of the Turkish Jews and Sephardim: Memories of a Past Golden Age. p. 172.
- ^ F. Déroche, M. Farhad, and S. Rettig (2016). The Art of the Qurʼan: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, p. 35.
- ^ It is also mentioned that she endowed a copy of a Qur'an transcribed by her husband to her own tomb. She believed that reading from that particular copy would bring her particular baraka.
- 1565 births
- People from Manisa
- Daughters of Ottoman sultans