![]() ![]() In 1554, Mihrimah suffered a life-threatening miscarriage which almost cost her her life. Mihrimah and Rüstem had one daughter, Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan, born in 1541, and a son, Sultanzade Osman Bey, born in 1546. Although Mihrimah and her mother made efforts to promote Rüstem as an intimate of the sultan, he was actually kept at a distance from the royal presence. In 1544 she traveled to Bursa with her mother and husband and a large military escort. Shortly after Mihrimah's wedding she developed a rheumatoid-like condition and spent most of her life dealing with the illness. Five years later in 1544, Süleyman selected her husband to become Grand Vizier, a post he held until his death in 1561, bar a two-year interval when he was dismissed to assuage popular outrage following the execution of Şehzade (Crown Prince) Mustafa in 1553. Her wedding ceremony and the celebration for her younger brothers Bayezid and Cihangir's circumcision occurred on the same day, the collective festivities lasting fifteen days. The marriage took place on 26 November 1539 in the Old Palace, when Mihrimah was seventeen. Rüstem's enemies circulated a rumour that he had leprosy but the doctor dispatched to Diyarbakır to examine him found this to be untrue, although a louse was found in his clothing, despite the fact that he changed his garments daily. However, Hürrem believed that she should be married to the more handsome governor of Cairo. In 1539, Süleyman decided that Mihrimah should be married to Rüstem Pasha, probably from Croatia, who had been seized through the devshirme and rose to become Governor of Diyarbakır and later, Grand Vizier. Titian's portrait of Mihrimah, entitled Cameria, Daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent as St. Well-educated and disciplined, she was also sophisticated, eloquent and well-read. Mihrimah had five brothers: Şehzade Mehmed, Şehzade Abdullah, who died at the age of three, Şehzade Selim (the future Selim II), Şehzade Bayezid, and Şehzade Cihangir. Her mother was Hürrem Sultan, an Orthodox priest's daughter, who was the Sultan's concubine but was freed in 1533 or 1534 and became Suleyman's legal wife. Mihrimah was born in Constantinople ( Istanbul) in 1522 during the reign of her father, Süleyman the Magnificent. She was also known as Hanım Sultan, which means "Madam Princess". Her portrait by Cristofano dell'Altissimo was entitled Cameria Solimani. To Westerners, she was known as Cameria, which is a variant of "Qamariah", an Arabic version of her name meaning "of the moon". Mihrimah or Mihrümah means "Sun and Moon", or "Moon of the Suns" in Persian. In Europe she was known as Sultana Cameria, while in Constantinople she was known as Büyük Sultan (the Great Sultana). She was the most powerful imperial princess in Ottoman history according to historian Mustafa Selaniki who described her as the greatest and most respected princess and a prominent figure in the so-called Sultanate of Women. ![]() Mihrimah Sultan ( Ottoman Turkish: مهرماه سلطان, " sun and moon" or " light of the moon", Turkish pronunciation: 1522 – 25 January 1578) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent and his wife, Hürrem Sultan.
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