Gevhermüluk Sultan, "''gem of the king''", was an Ottoman Sultana. She was the daughter of
Bayezid II
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Early life
Anthony Dolphin Alderson notes, referring to Ulucay, that Şehzade Mahmud and Gevhermüluk Sultan were full brother and sister.
She married Dukakinzade Mehmed Pasha, son of Grand Vizier Dukakinzade Ahmed Pasha,governor of
Smederevo
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Kyustendil
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Karaman
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Death
Gevhermüluk Sultan was one of the longest-lived Sultanas. She died on 20 January 1550 in
Istanbul
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. Her son-in-law built a school near Zal Mahmud Pasha's Mosque and the three of them are buried there.David J. Roxburgh, ̂ı Hafız Hüseyin Ayvansaray (2000).The Garden of the Mosques: Hafiz Hüseyin Al-Ayvansarayî's Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul, p. 236.