Draft:Nazperver Sultan (Murad III)

Nazperver Hatun (Turkish Ottoman: نازپرورسلطان; meaning "coquettish"[1])(1556 – 1595) was a imperial consort of the Ottoman ruler Murad III[2][3]. By birth, she was a wallachian princess[3] whose personal name was Dobra Basarab[4], daughter of Mircea V the Shepherd and his wife, Princess Chiajna of Moldavia.

Nazperver Hatun
Princess of the Kingdom of Wallachia
Tenure1556 – 1595
BornDobra Basarab[5]
1556
Târgoviște, Kingdom of Wallachia
Died1595 (aged 39)
Eski Saray, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
ConsortMurad III (before 1574)
IssueŞehzade Murad
Şehzade Yusuf
Fethiye Sultan
Şehzade Abdürrahman
Names
Turkish: Nazperver Sultan
Turkish Ottoman: نازپرورسلطان
HouseHouse of Osman (by marriage)
House of Drăculești (by birth)
FatherMircea V of Wallachia
MotherChiajna of Moldavia
ReligionSunni Islam (previosly Orthodox)

Life

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Lady Dobra was born in 1556 in Wallachia to voivode Mircea the Shepherd and his wife, Chiajna of Moldavia who was the granddaughter of Stephen the Great. She had 6 siblings, including Peter the Younger, next ruler of Wallachia.[6][7]

After her father dethronement in 1533, her mother wanted to seek closer relation with the Ottoman Empire by becoming closer with the imperial consorts, hoping for her husband to regain the throne. Her plan was successful, her husband became voievode again but died months later[4]. As a widow, Princess Chiajna's attention was on her youngest daughters, one of them was Dobra. Firstly, she tried to make negotiation for Dobra to marry Iacob Heraclid of Moldavia, but changer her mind later.[8]

Exiled after her son's short rule, the ambitious widow wanted to marry her daughter, Dobra, to the son of Selim II.[4] He took her daughter near the young Murad, the sultan's eldest son. Murad fell in love with Dobra and asked her to marry. Dobra converted to Islam, changing her name Nazperver.[9][3]

Nazperver Hatun was favoured by Sultan Murad and gave birth to three sons and a daughter. Sadly, when Murad III died, she tried to escape with her children but unfortunatly her sons were executed by their half-brother, Mehmet III.

Later, she commissioned a mosque in Eyüp[10] and The Dede Mosque in Nișancular was also built by her.[11] None of her children survived, her daughter also died at a young age. Nazperver Hatun died in 1595. It is unknown where she was buried.[11]

Issue

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Nazperver Hatun gave birth to 1 daughter and 3 sons for the sultan:

Ancestry

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Cambridge University Press (8 October 2020). "The Imperial Harem and Its Residents".
  2. ^ Mehmet Süreyya Bey (2014). Osmanlı devletinde kim kimdi (in Turkish). Küğ Yayını. p. 238.
  3. ^ a b c Analele Academiei Române, Vol 18 (in Romanian). 1894. pp. 3–4.
  4. ^ a b c Lyceum (1972). Nuvela istorică românească în secolul al XIX-lea (in Romanian). Albastros. p. 221.
  5. ^ Lyceum (1972). Nuvela istorică românească în secolul al XIX-lea (in Romanian). Albastros. p. 221.
  6. ^ SOLCAN, ȘAROLTA (2020-01-01). FEMEILE DIN MOLDOVA, TRANSILVANIA ȘI ȚARA ROMÂNEASCĂ ÎN EVUL MEDIU: EDIȚIA A II-A REVĂZUTĂ ȘI ADĂUGITĂ (in Romanian). Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press. ISBN 978-606-16-1167-6
  7. ^ IVAȘCU, Aurică (2020). Enciclopedia comunei Șerbănești. Hoffman. p. 34. ISBN 9786064610584.
  8. ^ Iorga, Nicolae (2021). Femeile în viaţa neamului nostru. PAUL EDITIONS. p. 29. ISBN 9786069453148.
  9. ^ Bouleanu, Elisabeth (2017). "Controversata doamnă Chiajna. Cum a ajuns să-şi mărite fata cu un sultan şi să-şi turcească cei doi fii". Adevărul.
  10. ^ Altun, Mustafa (2019). Yüzyıl Dönümünde Bir Valide Sultan: Safiye Sultan'ın Hayatı ve Eserleri. pp. 20–21.
  11. ^ a b Crane (1999). The Garden Of The Mosques. Brill. p. 304. ISBN 9789004492080.

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