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Sep 28, 2017 · Nurbanu Sultan was one of the most powerful figures in the Ottoman Empire. She was the favourite concubine and eventual wife of Selim II, the son of Suleyman and Roxelana. However, her power increased when she became the queen mother of Murad III. Nurbanu would reign as queen mother until her death. Like her mother in law, Roxelana, Nurbana ...
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).
- 15 December 1574 – 7 December 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.
- 7 September 1566 – 15 December 1574
- Hurrem Sultan
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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.
Nov 15, 2017 · That is the case with this richly imagined memoir of Nurbanu, the Venetian-born chief consort, or haseki sultan, of Selim II, and the valide sultan, or mother, of Murad III—the first in a line of strong royal wives who founded what some historians call the “sultanate of women.”
- Louis Werner
Aug 30, 2017 · Once in the folds of the Ottoman Empire, she became known as Nurbanu. Her destiny was to became favourite consort and legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Selim II and mother of Murad III. Wherever she came from, she one day found herself the head of the Sultan's harem.
Apr 30, 2024 · 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.
