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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).
Nurbanu Sultan, Murad's mother, was upset with Safiye's influence on Murad, and wanted to replace her with another concubines of the harem. She even led a faction in the court from 1577 to 1580 in opposition to her mother-in-law and her faction.
Nov 16, 2017 · The Mapmaker’s Daughter (Delphinium) is Nurbanu’s recounting of her own life from her deathbed. Hughes takes readers through her birth, (as Cecilia Baffo Veniero, an illegitimate Venetian) to her astronomic rise, which, thanks to her bond with the greatest sultan of her time, Suleiman the Magnificent, shaped her as the wife of ...
Oct 8, 2012 · Nurbanu became the “first lady” of the princely harem and was promoted to leadership of the imperial harem when the Prince ascended the throne as Selim II, “Grand Sultan, Commander of the Faithful and Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe” in 1566.
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Nurbanu Sultan was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the legal wife of Sultan Selim II, as well as Valide Sultan as the mother of Sultan Murad III. She was one of the most prominent figures during the time of the Sultanate of Women.
Murad III ( Ottoman Turkish: مراد ثالث, romanized : Murād-i s āli s; Turkish: III. Murad; 4 July 1546 – 16 January 1595) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. His rule saw battles with the Habsburgs and exhausting wars with the Safavids.
Nurbanu Sultan was a Venetian-born concubine and wife of Selim II, and the mother of Murad III. She was a powerful and influential figure in the Ottoman Empire, who acted as an advisor to her husband and son, and commissioned the Atik Valide Mosque.
