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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).
Selim had a Haseki and legal wife, and at least seven concubines. Nurbanu Sultan, his favorite concubine, Haseki Sultan, legal wife and the mother of his son and successor Sultan Murad III. During Selim's reign, her stipend was 1100 aspers a day.
Selim II married Nurbanu Sultan in 1545 at Konya. Her origin is not clear but it is speculated that she was a Venetian. He favoured Nurbanu Sultan and bestowed a dowry of 110, 000 ducats on her, which was even higher than what his father had bestowed on his mother, Hurrem Sultan.
Selim II was an Ottoman sultan from 1566, whose reign saw peace in Europe and Asia and the rise of the Ottomans to dominance in the Mediterranean but marked the beginning of the decline in the power of the sultans.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 13, 2017 · The mausoleum is the resting place of Sultan Murad III, and his wife Safiye as well as Murad's sons and daughters. In total, there are 54 sarcophagi inside the building. Murad III was the son of Selim II and his wife, Nurbanu. He reigned in the period from 1574 to 1595.
Nurbanu Sultan became the first of the great valide sultans during the sixteenth century, as haseki as well as legal wife to Sultan Selim II. Nurbanu’s influential career as valide sultan established the precedent of valide sultan maintaining more power than her nearest harem rival, the haseki, or favorite concubine of the reigning sultan.
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Nurbanu Sultan Biography. 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.
