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, burial_date = 14 September 1687 , burial_place =

Üsküdar Üsküdar () is a large and densely populated district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus. It is bordered to the north by Beykoz, to the east by Ümraniye, to the southeast by Ataşehir and to the south by Kadıköy; ...

, spouse = Ibrahim , issue =

Ahmed II Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...

Gevherhan Sultan? , house = Ottoman (by marriage) , religion = Hatice Muazzez Sultan ( ota, خدیجہ معزز سلطان; "''respecful lady''" and "''precious''", died 12 September 1687) was the third Haseki Sultan of Sultan Ibrahim and the mother of Sultan

Life

Muazzez entered in Ibrahim's harem in 1640, and gave birth to her only certain son, Şehzade Ahmed (future

) on 25 February 1643. She was the third Haseki Sultan. During Ibrahim's reign, she received a stipend of 1000 aspers a day. She was the most beautiful of all Ibrahim's concubine and she was known for her mild character and her good manners in the palace. After the deposition and death of Sultan Ibrahim in 1648, his eldest son, Sultan

Mehmed IV Mehmed IV ( ota, محمد رابع, Meḥmed-i rābi; tr, IV. Mehmed; 2 January 1642 – 6 January 1693) also known as Mehmed the Hunter ( tr, Avcı Mehmed) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the a ...

, son of

Turhan Sultan Turhan Hatice Sultan ( ota, تورخان سلطان, "''nobility of the Khan''" or ''mercy of the Khan'' " and "''respecful lady''"; 1627 – 4 August 1683) was the first Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim (reign 1640–48) and V ...

, ascended the throne, after which Muazzez settled in the Old Palace. This brought her thirty eight years of imprisonment in the Old Palace and separation from her son, who was closed in the

Kafes The Kafes ( ota, قفس, kafes, from ), literally "cage", was the part of the Imperial Harem of the Ottoman Palace where possible successors to the throne were kept under a form of house-arrest and constant surveillance by the palace guards. Th ...

Death and aftermath

In 1687, a large fire broke out near the Old Palace. By the next evening the fire had engulfed the Old Palace. The fire burned for five hours and the palace burned down in many places. Most of lives of people in the Old Palace were saved by the servants in the palace. Muazzez was so burned from the fire that she died the next day. Her body was taken to Üsküdar, and was buried near a palace around there. Thus, she was not

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to her son because she died four years before

's accession to the throne. Wares belonging to Muazzez, were immediately placed in the imperial treasury. Her Jewelry was given to Behzad Kadın, Süğlün Kadın, and Șehsuvar Kadın, consorts of the new Sultan Suleiman II. But when her son ascended the throne in 1691, he took away the jewelry from the consorts of the recently deceased Sultan, and placed the jewelry in the imperial treasury.

Issue

Together with Ibrahim, Muazzez had only a certain son: *

(

Topkapı Palace The Topkapı Palace ( tr, Topkapı Sarayı; ota, طوپقپو سرايى, ṭopḳapu sarāyı, lit=cannon gate palace), or the Seraglio, is a large museum in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. From the 1460s to the complet ...

, 25 February 1643 - Edirne, Turkey, 6 February 1695, buried in

Süleymaniye Mosque The Süleymaniye Mosque ( tr, Süleymaniye Camii, ) is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. An insc ...

). Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. It is not known for sure if she had other children, but according to some she is also the mother of: * Gevherhan Sultan (Constantinople, 1642 - October 27, 1694). She was close to

Rabia Sultan ota, رابعہ سلطان , house = , birth_date = 1670 , birth_place = , death_date = 14 January 1712 , death_place = Old Palace, Beyazıt Square, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire , burial_place= Suleiman the Magnificent Mausoleum, Sül ...

, wife of Ahmed II, and donated some of her properties and income to their newborn daughter, Asiye Sultan.

In popular culture

*In the 2015 Turkish historical non-fiction TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem, Muazzez Sultan is portrayed by Turkish actress Firuze Gamze Aksu.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Muazzez Sultan 1629 births 1687 deaths People from the Ottoman Empire of Polish descent 17th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans 1600s births Mothers of Ottoman sultans