Masuma Sultan Begum ( fa, معصومہ سلطان بیگم; born 1508) was a Mughal princess and the daughter of the first Mughal emperor,

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 ...

. She is frequently mentioned in the ''Humayun-nama'' by her sister,

Gulbadan Begum Gulbadan Begum ( 1523 – 7 February 1603) was a Mughal princess and the daughter of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is best known as the author of ''Humayun-Nama'', the account of the life of her half-brother, Empero ...

, who calls her sister 'Elder sister Moon' (''mah chacha'').

Early life

Masuma Sultan Begum was the daughter of Babur and his fourth wife,

Masuma Sultan Begum Masuma Sultan Begum ( ) was the Queen consort of Ferghana Valley and Samarkand as the fourth wife of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal emperor. Masuma was a first cousin of her husband and was a Timurid princes ...

. She was born in

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

, and her mother died giving birth to her. She was given her mother's name. In 1511, Babur entrusted Kabul to his younger brother Nasir Mirza and set out for

Samarkand fa, سمرقند , native_name_lang = , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from the top:Registan square, Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, Bibi-Khanym Mosque, view inside Shah-i-Zinda, ...

Marriage

In 1517, when Masuma Sultan Begum was nine years old, Babur married her to the twenty-one year old

Muhammad Zaman Mirza Muhammad Zaman Mirza (1496–1539) was a Timurid prince, and general to Mughal Emperors Babur and Humayun. He claimed himself as the ruler of Gujarat in 1537 but did not gain actual control. Early life Muhammad Zaman Mirza was the son of Badi ...

. He was the son of Badi' al-Zaman Mirza, and the grandson of Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara. His mother was the daughter of Tahamtan Beg, and the niece of Asad Beg. After Masuma Sultan Begum's marriage with him, Babur sent him to

Balkh ), named for its green-tiled ''Gonbad'' ( prs, گُنبَد, dome), in July 2001 , pushpin_map=Afghanistan#Bactria#West Asia , pushpin_relief=yes , pushpin_label_position=bottom , pushpin_mapsize=300 , pushpin_map_caption=Location in Afghanistan ...

. She became a widow at the age of thirty-one when Muhammad Zaman Mirza died in the

Battle of Chausa The Battle of Chausa was a notable military engagement between the Mughal Emperor, Humayun, and the Afghan warlord, Sher Shah Suri. It was fought on 26 June 1539 at Chausa, 10 miles southwest of Buxar in modern-day Bihar, India. Sher Shah Suri wa ...

Ancestry

References

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