Daughters of Sultan Murad III
Mihrimah Sultan (1564 - before 1613): eldest child of Sultan Safiye. According to Matteo Zane's account, this 26-year-old sultana had a hump (which explains why she later entered the "marriage market") and was promised to her uncle Siyavuş Pasha in 1590. The engagement lasted until Siyavuş Pasha was dismissed from his position as GV because Sultan Safiye was angry with him for rejecting her daughter, and she withdrew from politics because of it. Her only known marriage was to Ahmed Ağa in 1604, according to the chronicles. Her husband remarried in Şaban in 1022 CE to Fahrihan Sultan. She died during the reign of Ahmed I and was buried next to her father.
Ayşe Sultan (1570 – 15 May 1605): Daughter of Safiye Sultan. Betrothed in 1582 to Ibrahim Pasha, whom she married in 1586. The marriage lasted 15 years, after which she remarried in 1602 to Yemişçi Hasan Pasha. She pleaded for mercy for her husband's life, but her brother coldly suggested that she follow him after death, since she was so insistent. She finally remarried in 1604 to Güzelce Mahmud Pasha, with whom she had been romantically involved since the late reign of Mehmed III. She died of illness in May 1605.
Fatma Sultan (1574–1620): daughter of Safiye; betrothed in 1573/90 to Kapıcıbasi Mahmud Pasha through her grandmother Nurbanu, and in 1590/3 (at the same time as her sister Mihrimah became betrothed to Siyavuş Pasha) or later to Hızır Pasha. The betrothal lasted until 1593, when Halil Pasha, as Fatma's husband, gained the favor of a younger man. Venetian accounts confirmed that the couple were happy and had many children; their son Mahmud died in 1598 of the plague (one of her sons was named Hasan). She remarried to Frenk Cafer Pasha in 1604/05, who was Kapudan Pasha in 1606 and later Governor of Cyprus. There are sources that claim she remarried in 1610 to Hızır Pasha, her promised Pasha from 1590. I am not sure which version is true.
In any case, even if she was the wife of Cafer Pasha (d. 1609), she was certainly remarried for a short time to Hızır Pasha (d. 1610), whom she commissioned to make a waqf in July 1611.
There are even sources that indicate she remarried Murad Pasha. If so, this marriage was very short-lived, as he died in September 1611.
The date of her death remains a mystery to me. I've tried hard, but I haven't found anything. There's no trace of her death in 1620 (because Öztuna fabricated many facts), and Orhan Bayrak's suggested year of death, 1610, is incorrect, as she was still alive in 1611. When she died, she was buried next to her father Murad III and sister Mihrimah Sultan.
Hümaşah Sultan (~1580–13 September 1659): Youngest of Safiye's daughters. She is said to have married Nakkaş Hasan Pasha in early 1605, but according to the Venetian Report, her brother Mehmed III married her to Nakkaş Hasan Pasha while he was Silahdar, which would mean she married him in the late 1590s. He was therefore her only husband, and she apparently refused to remarry after his death in 1623. According to documents from 1606 and 1617, she was close to her nephew Ahmed I and his court. She had only one known child with Nakkaş Hasan Pasha, Gevherhan Hanımsultan.
She regularly received gifts from the Ragusans and had her own palace. She outlived her parents and all her siblings by many years. She was buried in the Nakkaş Hasan Pasha Mosque in Eyüp.
Fahrihan Sultan (~1594 – 16 November 1678): She married firstly in 1613 to Küçük Mirahur Mehmed Ağa of Kapıcıbasi Mehmed Ağa, but remarried to Ahmed Pasha, who was previously married to her half-sister Mihrimah Sultan. After his death in 1618, she remarried to Çerkez Mehmed Pasha. I presume she received an allowance of 430 aspers (as did the sultans' full sisters Kösem Sultan's daughters and Safiye's daughter Hümaşah), since she was married to Grand Vizier Murad IV. With him she had a daughter, Hanzade Hanımsultan:
Bab Court Register No. 3 (H. 1077 /M. 1666-1667); volume: 17, page: 540, judgment number: 660.... Hanzade Sultan, daughter of the late Circassian vizier Mehmed Pasha...
In the late 1620s, she remarried Sofu Bayram Pasha, who died in the 1630s during Murad's reign. After his Shierci reign of Murad IV. After his death, she remarried the governor of Kars, Dilaver Pasha, who built the Kars Ulu Mosque in honor of Murad III in 1643. I presume he married her in 1644, because he was dismissed from his position as governor of Kars in January 1644. Her husband was vizier to Mehmed IV and died in 1656.
She had her own waquf, was close to her own. She commissioned the preparation of a waquf, and was closely associated with her nephew, Süleyman Bey, son of Kara Davud Pasha. In her will, she mentions her son, Mustafa, and expressed her desire to bury him next to his father. In the 1670s, she complained to GV that she was not receiving gifts from the people of Ragusa. There is a source stating that one of her husbands owed her a huge dowry, but I wonder who this man was... How did Ottoman princesses maintain their advantage in marriages with the pashas of the empire? One way was financial: court records show that the husband of Fahri Sultan, Murad III's daughter, owed her a mehr-i mü'eccel (delayed dowry) of a whopping 20 million silver akçes.
Beyhan Sultan (158? - 15 June 1654): She married Kurşuncuzade Mustafa Pasha in 1613. Her husband was vizier to Ahmed I and Osman II, who commissioned a saraya for Osman II in 1619. According to Sicill-i Osmani, he died between 1636 and 1637. She sold several gardens and meadows in 1637. In Ragusan documents, she is mentioned as the wife of Nideli Mustafa, which would mean she was married to Niğdeli Mustafa Pasha, which is the former wife of Niğdeli Mustafa Pasha, which is misleading. is confusing.
Hatice Sultan (159? - 10 May 1659): She married the governor Kefe Mehmed Pasha in 1613; she was recorded as his widow in 1638. During Ibrahim's reign, she remarried to Murad Pasha, mentioned in gifts as "Magrip pascia". Sources provided by Merve Çakır indicate that she was mentioned in 1655 as the wife of Murad Pasha, but in the gifts from Ragusa from 1655, she was mentioned as the wife of Yusuf Pasha. She spent her entire life in the Old Palace.
Gevherhan Sultan (?? - po 1624): She married Bostancıbasi Hasan Pasha in 1613. She died during the reign of Murad IV.
Saime Sultan (159? - 167?): She married Küçük Mirahur Mehmed Ağa or Kapıcıbasi Topal Mehmed Ağa in 1613, who died between 1633 and 1639. Her next two marriages were during the reign of Sultan Ibrahim: in around 1641 to Topal Ahmed Pasha, and after 1643 to Sarukçi Mehmed Pasha. I do not understand the motives for these marriages at the age of 50, as she was not the daughter of Valide Sultan; whether it was a personal wish, financial gain, a political move of Kösem Sultan, I do not know. She was widowed in 1651. She lived her entire life in the Old Palace, as her sister Hatice Sultan. She was mentioned in some of Mehmed IV's documents concerning lands and monetary bequests, as well as Ragusan donations. She received her last payment in 1672, but she died before she received it in 1672, but died before 1676.
Abide Sultan (?? - 164?): Historians wrongly assumed she was the daughter of Ahmed I, when in fact she was the daughter of Murad III. She married Muslu Pasha in 1613, who became Ahmed I's vizier and aspired to the throne of GV during his reign. She received gifts as his wife in 1642 from the Ragusans. She died during the reign of Sultan Ibrahim.
Rükiye Sultan (?? - after 1613): daughter of Şemsiruhsar Hatun. She outlived her mother and most likely (at least I assume so) married Cığalazade Mehmed Bey in 1613. Last summer I found in old Venetian sources from the 18th century that Mehmed Bey was still alive in 1623. century that Mehmed Bey was still alive in 1623, so he could not have been the husband of Fahrî Sultan, nor was he the husband of Saime Sultan, since her husband was recorded in 1638 as "Paşa".
Seventeen daughters they were born after 1582 and all died during the smallpox epidemic of 1598.
