ottomanladies:On 15 April 1558, Haseki Hürrem Sultan died:Hürrem’s career as royal consort, from the
ottomanladies:On 15 April 1558, Haseki Hürrem Sultan died:Hürrem’s career as royal consort, from the birth of her first child in 1521 until her death in 1558, spanned nearly all of Süleyman’s reign. It broke with the three principal features of earlier tradition: the concubine status of royal mothers, the reproductive principle of one mother-one son, and the presence of a prince’s mother at her son’s provincial post. Unable to comprehend these unprecedented changes, the public found a solution in blaming Hürrem for bewitching the sultan. — Peirce. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire -- source link
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