Handan Valide Sultan · Islam Museum

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Roles: royal
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Anatolia
Identifiers: Wikidata
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Life in time

The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Abd al-Haqq Amanat Khan · Abdallah al-Ghalib II · Abu al-Mafakhir of Banten · Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Ahdal · Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti

Summary

Handan Valide Sultan; mother of Sultan Ahmed I and a consort of Sultan Mehmed III ¹.

She died on 15 Rajab 1014/26 November 1605 and was buried in her husband's mausoleum ¹.

Sources

Sicill-i Osmani — Mehmed Süreyya (ed. Nuri Akbayar, transcr. Seyit Ali Kahraman) , vol. 1, 'Handan Vâlide Sultan'

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islam.museum contributors. “Handan Valide Sultan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/handan-valide-sultan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

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