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Nurbanu Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: نور بانو سلطان; "queen of light", c. 1525/1527 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal wife of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), as well as Valide Sultan (Sultana mother) as the mother of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1583).
Nov 16, 2017 · The Mapmaker’s Daughter (Delphinium) is Nurbanu’s recounting of her own life from her deathbed. Hughes takes readers through her birth, (as Cecilia Baffo Veniero, an illegitimate Venetian) to her astronomic rise, which, thanks to her bond with the greatest sultan of her time, Suleiman the Magnificent, shaped her as the wife of his successor.
Murad III ( Ottoman Turkish: مراد ثالث, romanized : Murād-i s āli s; Turkish: III. Murad; 4 July 1546 – 16 January 1595) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. His rule saw battles with the Habsburgs and exhausting wars with the Safavids.
Nurbanu Sultan was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal wife of Sultan Selim II, as well as Valide Sultan as the mother of Sultan Murad III. She was one of the most prominent figures during the time of the Sultanate of Women.
Dec 26, 2023 · Step into the opulent world of 16th-century Ottoman Empire as we unravel the captivating life of Nurbanu Sultan, a woman of Venetian origins who became a central figure in the corridors of...
The product of an illegitimate union between two noble Venetian families, Nurbanu Sultan, née Cecelia Venier-Baffo, was the concubine and later wife of Selim II and the mother of Murad III. Captured in 1537 at the age of twelve, she entered the Ottoman harem and became Selim’s choice to bear his children.
Captured as a slave (1537), entered the imperial harem and eventually married Selim II, son of Suleiman the Magnificent and Roxelana; became valide sultan (mother of the sultan), the most powerful woman in the empire, when her son Murad III ascended the throne (1574); was the empire's true ruler until her death.
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