Kösem Sultan
(1589-1651)
Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
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Kösem Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: كوسم سلطان; c. 1589 – 2 September 1651), also known as Mahpeyker Sultan (Persian: ماه پيكر; lit. 'Visage of the Moon'), was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I, valide sultan as the mother of sultans Murad IV and Ibrahim, and büyük (lit. 'elder') valide sultan as the grandmother of Sultan Mehmed IV. She became one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history, as well as a prominent and controversial figure during the period known as the Sultanate of Women.
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1589 Tinos, Republic of Venice (now Greece)
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1651 (aged 61) Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
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