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Gevherhan Sultan (daughter of Selim II)

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Gevherhan Sultan
Born1544
Konya, Ottoman Empire
Died1606(aged 62)
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Hagia Sophia Mosque, Istanbul
SpousePiyale Pasha
Boyalı Mehmed Pasha
Names
Gevherhan Sultan
HouseHouse of Osman
FatherSelim II
MotherSelimiye Sultan
ReligionIslam

Gevherhan Sultan (ca. 1544 - 1606, Ottoman Turkish: گوھرخان سلطان) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Selim I and his consort Selimiye Sultan. She was the granddaughter of Suleiman the Magnificent (reign 1520-66) and his favourite consort and legal wife Hürrem Sultan, sister of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574-95) and aunt of Sultan Mehmed III (reign 1596-1603).

Biography

Gevherhan Sultan was on of the four daughters of Selim II and by his consort Selimiye Sultan. In contrast, strong alliances were made for the daughters of Selim, the prince who would succeed Suleiman: Ismahan married Sokollu Mehmed, Gevherhan the admiral Piyalen, and Şah the chief falconer Hasan Agha. On 1 August 1562, Suleiman celebrated the triple wedding of his heir, Selim's daughters Ismahan, Gevherhan and Şah to Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Piyale Pasha and Hasan Agha respectively.

After the triple wedding, Mihrimah Sultan, Gevherhan's aunt, pushed assiduously for a naval campaign against Malta, enlisting the help of her son-in-law, the grand vizier Semiz Ali Pasha, and promising to outfit four hundred ships at her own expanse. However, Suleiman and his son Selim prevented the campaign from going forward so that the admiral, Piyale Pasha, might remain in Istanbul with his new wife, Gevherhan Sultan. The State Treasury covered the expenses for the imperial wedding and granted 10,000 florins as a wedding gift to the imperial son-in-law. Two daughters - Ayşe and Fatma were born from this marriage. Piyale Pasha died in 1578 and Gevherhan Sultan is said to have married Boyalı Mehmed Pasha in 1579. From her properties she constituted a religious and charitable foundation with whose revenues built and maintained a high theological college (medrese) in the İstanbul neighbourhood of CaoğluShe died in 1580 and is entombed in Selim II's mausoleum next to Hagia Sophia Mosque.

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