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NURBANU SULTAN APPRECIATION WEEK 

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NURBANU SULTAN + FACTS

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NURBANU SULTAN + VENICE

It is known that Cecilia was a bastard (illegitimate child) and came from two families - Venier and Baffo. Her relative was the Doge of the Venetian Republic (at the time of the election he turned 81) - Sebastiano Venier, who married and had 3 children. Thus, Nurbanu had nephews. Unfortunately, there is no data on her mother - Violanta Baffo. Step-brother - André Vener - died while his father was still alive.

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NURBANU + SELIM

The Venetian ambassador Jacopo Soranzo commented that “the Chassechi [haseki].... is said to be extremely well loved and honored by His Majesty both for her great beauty and for being unusually intelligent.”

Nurbanu’s prestige persisted even after Selimbegan to take other concubines, for in 1573 the ambassador Andrea Badoaro was still reporting that “she is called the cassachi and is much loved by his majesty.” Following his father’s precedent, Selim II kept his haseki Nurbanu in the New Palace.

According to the report of the envoy Jacopo Ragazzoni, Süleyman’s son, Selim II, married his haseki, Nur Banu. The report was presented to the Senate on 16 August 1571 and Ragazzoni says that the marriage had been celebrated six months before. The same information is given by Giovanni Correr in 1578 and Giacomo Soranzo in 1584. They also add that for this reason Nur Banu could sit and eat in the presence of the sultan, while Safiye could not.

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NURBANU + MURAD

Murad continued to esteem his first concubine [Safiye] , consulting her on political matters, especially after the death in 1583 of his mother Nurbanu Sultan, on whom he had relied greatly.

Murad buried his mother beside his father at the head of the splendid tomb, centrally located in the courtyard of the great mosque of Aya Sofya, in which Selim II had been buried nine years before Nurbanu Sultan’s death in 1583. By linking his mother with his father in this manner, Murad emphasized his mother’s place within the dynastic family and suggested that his legitimacy was derived from her as well as from his father.

Murad’s mother was the person on whom he most relied for guidance: “[He bases] his policies principally on the advice of his mother, it appearing to him that he could have no other advice as loving and loyal as hers, hence the reverence which he shows toward her and the esteem that he bears for her unusual qualities and many virtues.”

As Nurbanu lay dying, the sultan loudly lamented that he would be an orphan, with no help or counsel to support the weight of sovereignty. Nurbanu’s final advice to Murad, was, in the words of the ambassador Morosini, “the most judicious and prudent caution as regards this government that could have come from a good, intelligent, and consummate statesman.”Nurbanu urged her son to be particularly heedful of three matters: ensuring that swifter and more impartial justice be rendered to his subjects, restraining his natural avidity for gold and money, and above all keeping watch on the conduct of his son”.

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requested: Nurbanu and Dilsah as rivals            

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requested: NURBANU SULTAN AS A WITCH

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requested: Nurbanu & Defne + ep.139.