Hürrem Sultan

✶1505

†April 15, 1558

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About their life

Hürrem Sultan, also known as Roxelana, was the chief consort and legal wife of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, mother of his successor Selim II, and the first haseki sultan of the Ottoman Empire. She became one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history, and the first in a series of prominent women who lived during the period that came to be known as the Sultanate of Women. She is commonly considered the most powerful Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent

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Biography from the article Hürrem Sultan on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.