Father Şehzade Mehmed | Religion Islam Spouse Lala Mustafa Pasha Children Sultanzade Abdulbaki Bey | |
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Issue Sultanzade Abdulbaki Bey Parents Şehzade Mehmed, Esmehan Baharnaz Sultan Similar Şehzade Mehmed, Roxelana, Esmehan Baharnaz Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, Şah Sultan | ||
Hümaşah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: هماشاہ سلطان) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Şehzade Mehmed of the Ottoman Empire. She was a granddaughter of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (reign 1520–1566) and his legal wife, Hürrem Sultan.
Biography
Born in 1540 or by some sources 1544 in Manisa, where her father served as sanjakbey, Hümaşah or, according to history professor Leslie P. Peirce, Hüma was his only child. Following his death in 1543, she was taken under the care of her grandmother and moved to Istanbul.
Like her cousin Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan, she was reportedly beloved by their grandfather, to whom she wrote letters. She is regarded by historian M. Çağatay Uluçay as amongst the most influential women of Suleiman's reign. This affection can be explained, in large measure, by the fact that her late father, Mehmed, was Suleiman's favorite son.
It was she who, in 1563, gifted her cousin Şehzade Murad (future Sultan Murad III) with a concubine that would go on to be Safiye Sultan.
She was married:
She died in Istanbul, in either 1582 or circa 1592-1593, of unknown causes. She was buried alongside her father and uncle, Şehzade Cihangir, in Şehzade Mosque.