#hurrem sultan

[valyrianpoem]

Meryem Uzerli as HURREM SULTAN [60/?] Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Magnificent Century, 2011)

[nonmorie]

hi guys!! recently i made an art of Hürrem Sultan in my style, and wanna somebody to see it since it has not a big fan community around the world 🩷

[magnificentcenturydaily]

Meryem Uzerli as Hürrem Sultan MAGNIFICENT CENTURY (2011–2014)

[hurremsultn]

"Suleiman’s love for Hurrem found powerful expression in his poetic letters to her. When both Navagero and Trevisano wrote in their 1553 and 1554 reports to Venice that she was “much loved by her master” (“tanto amata da sua maestà”), Roxolana was already in her fifties, long past her prime. After her death in April 1558, Suleiman remained inconsolable for a long time. She was the greatest love of his life, his soulmate and lawful wife, and a woman of extraordinary character. Suleiman’s great love for Roxolana was manifest in his exceptional treatment of his hasseki. To her benefit, the Sultan broke a series of very important traditions of the imperial harem. In 1533 or 1534 (the exact date is unknown), Suleiman married Hurrem in a magnificent formal ceremony, violating a 300-year-old custom of the Ottoman house according to which sultans were not to marry their concubines. Never before was a former slave elevated to the status of the sultan’s lawful spouse. Moreover, upon marrying hasseki Hurrem, the Sultan became practically monogamous, which was unheard of in Ottoman history. As Trevisano wrote in 1554, once Suleiman had known Roxolana, “not only did he want to have her as a legitimate wife and hold her as such in his seraglio, but he did not even want to know any other woman: something that had never been done by any of his predecessors, for the Turks are accustomed to take various women in order to have children by them, or for carnal pleasure.”

– Roxolana: “The Greatest Empresse of the East” by Galina Yermolenko (DeSales University Center Valley, Pennsylvania)

[awkward-sultana]

Magnificent January 2026 + Week  1: Firsts Hürrem Sultan's 1st Son

Everything we know about Roxelana suggests she was a person of determination and self-control, but she could certainly be forgiven any turbulent emotions in the aftermath of Mehmed’s birth. Relief and happiness that she and the child had emerged from the epidemic healthy were natural. Moreover, Roxelana had rapidly accomplished her purpose—producing a child for the dynasty. In turn, Mehmed garnered for her what she presumably desired—a secure position within the royal household. The slave girl who had lost her natal family now had a new one: through her son she now had blood ties to his father and grandmother. Mehmed’s birth introduced a legal shift in Roxelana’s status. Islamic law recognized and protected the concubine’s role as mother: unlike an ordinary slave, she could not be sold or given away, and she would automatically be freed upon the death of her master. Her new status under the law as umm al-walad (mother of a child) signaled these rights and her identity. — Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire, Leslie Peirce

[anastasiasultana]

FAV FITS: HÜRREM'S WHITE HALVET DRESS

Featured → Magnificent Century: Episodes 1-2 Description → Hürrem's white silk halvet dress, with draped slashed sleeves and a matching buttoned bodice piece. Simple in design, the chest line has a unique twisted silk knot, similar to the turquoise gown worn later in the second episode. The gown is worn with a matching set of seed pearl jewellery, including a ring, necklace, earrings and hair piece.

requested by @cat-valntine

[lucrecia-borja]

Hürrem Sultan | Muhtesem Yüzyil (2011–2014)

[kathrynhoward]

MERYEM UZERLI as HÜRREM SULTAN MAGNIFICENT CENTURY (2011-2014)