ottomanladies:“Safiye […] was, according to the Venetian Bailos Morosini and Bernardo, of Albanian o

ottomanladies:“Safiye […] was, according to the Venetian Bailos Morosini and Bernardo, of Albanian origin, a view confirmed by Soranzo, who describes her even more accurately as “nativa di Rezi, villa delle montagne de’ Ducagini nell'Albania”. […] She must have been born in 1550 or not long after. […] [Salomon Usque] tells us that as a girl of thirteen she became concubine of the sixteen years old Prince Murad who, since 1562, was Sanjak Beg of Saruhan. She was presented to him by his cousin Humashah, then Ferhad Pasha’s wife, acording to the reports of Gerlach and the Bailo Tiepolo in 1576. In the summer-camp on Bozdagh near Manisa, in May 1566 Safiye bore Murad a son, the future Mehemmed III. […] Of their many children, besides Mehemmed, only two daughters survived: A'ishe, the wife of Ibrahim Pasha and Fatima, who married first Khalil Pasha and later Ja'far Pasha.“ - Susan Skilliter, Three Letters from the Ottoman "Sultana” Safiye to Queen Elizabeth I -- source link

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