Mihrimah Sultan ( ota, مهرماه سلطان, "''sun and moon''" or "''light of the moon''") was an Ottoman princess, daughter of

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Murad III Murad III ( ota, مراد ثالث, Murād-i sālis; tr, III. Murad; 4 July 1546 – 16 January 1595) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. His rule saw battles with the Habsburgs and exhausting wars with the Saf ...

(reign 1574–1595) and perphaps Safiye Sultan, and sister of Sultan

Mehmed III Mehmed III (, ''Meḥmed-i sālis''; tr, III. Mehmed; 26 May 1566 – 22 December 1603) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death in 1603. Mehmed was known for ordering the execution of his brothers and leading the army in the L ...

(reign 1595–1603) of the

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Birth

It is not known for sure who her mother was. There are hits that most often claim that she was the daughter of unknown concubine and that she was suggestly born in 1592. The main evidence of this is the date of his first known marriage, placed between 1604 and 1613. The ''Ottoman Register'' indicates that in 1595, when her father died, she was among his eldest daughters, which indicates that she may have been the daughter of Safiye Sultan. If that is true, she was not born before 1578-79. It would also make sense if she was born shortly after the death of Mihrimah Sultan,a daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent, in whose honor she was named. If she was Safiye's daughter, she had at least two full brothers,

and Şehzade Mahmud, and three full sisters, Hümaşah Sultan, Ayşe Sultan and Fatma Sultan.

Marriages

Mihrimah most likely married for the first time during the time of her brother Mehmed III, but as the details of his Harem are poorly preserved, it cannot be proven when she was married.
Her first known marriage is marriage to Mihrahur Ahmed Pasha in 1613. Some sources even mention that she was even married to him in 1604. Ahmed Pasha was the governor of Rumelia in 1614 and after that was appointed as governor of Damascus. After Ahmed Pasha died in 1618, she married Çerkes Mehmed Ali Pasha. Mehmed Ali Pasha took the place of the governor of

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in 1618, so it can be assumed that she was probably married to him in the same year after death of her husband. During reign of

Murad IV Murad IV ( ota, مراد رابع, ''Murād-ı Rābiʿ''; tr, IV. Murad, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods. Murad IV was born in Cons ...

, he became Grand Vizier in 1624, until he died in Tokat on January 28, 1625. It is not known if she had issue from these marriages.

Death

The further life of Mihrimah Sultan is not known, as well as whether she had more marriages.Mandel, 1992, p. 214. She probably died during the reign of Murad IV, but this has not been confirmed. When she died, she was buried in the Mausoleum of Murad III, which is located in the courtyard of the

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