Fakhr-un-Nissa (died 1501) was a Mughal princess as the eldest child of the first
Mughal Emperor
The Mughal emperors ( fa, , Pādishāhān) were the supreme heads of state of the Mughal Empire on the Indian subcontinent, mainly corresponding to the modern countries of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The Mughal rulers styled t ...
Babur
Babur ( fa, , lit= tiger, translit= Bābur; ; 14 February 148326 December 1530), born Mīrzā Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad, was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his ...
and his Empress consort
Aisha Sultan Begum
Aisha Sultan Begum was Queen consort of Ferghana Valley and Samarkand as the first wife of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal emperor.
Aisha was a first cousin of her husband and was a Timurid princess by b ...
.
Fakhr-un-Nissa was born in 1501 in
Samarkand
fa, سمرقند
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to the nineteen-year-old Babur and his first wife, Aisha Sultan Begum. Upon her birth, she was given the name of Fakhr-un-Nissa ("Glory of Women").
The princess died a month or forty days after her birth, and her death grieved Babur the most as he dearly loved his daughter.
Ancestry
References
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Mughal princesses
Indian female royalty
Timurid dynasty
Babur
Women of the Mughal Empire
1501 births
1501 deaths
16th-century Indian women
16th-century Indian people
Daughters of emperors
Royalty and nobility who died as children