Hümaşah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Mehmed)

Hümaşah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: هوما شاه سلطانة) 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 favorite consort and legal wife, Hürrem Sultan.

Biography

Born in 1540 or according to some sources 1544 in Manisa,where her father served as sanjakbey,she was his only child.Following his death in 1543,she was taken under the care of her grandmother and moved to Istanbul. She was married :

• firstly,in 1556 or 1566/67,to Damad Ferhad Pasha (1526-6 January 1575),Third Vizier 1564-1565.She bore him four sons and five daughters;
• secondly,in 25 August 1575, to Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier 1580 (d.7 August 1580).She bore him a son,Sultanzade Abdulbaki Bey;
• thirdly,in 1581,to Damad Gazi Mehmed Pasha (d.23 August 1592).

She died in Istanbul, in either 1582 or circa 1592-1593,of unknown causes and was buried alongside her father and uncle Şehzade Cihangir in Şehzade Mosque.

References

• "Turkey: The Imperial House of Osman". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on May 2, 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2014.