This is a list of the biological mothers of Ottoman sultans. There were thirty-six sultans of the Ottoman Empire in twenty-one generations. (During early days the title Bey was used instead of Sultan) Throughout the six-century history the sultans were the members of the same house, namely the House of Ottoman (Turkish: Osmanlı Hanedanı).

Mothers of the Ottoman Sultans

This list is distinct from the list of Valide Sultans of the Ottoman Empire. Valide Sultan was the title of the mother of the reigning sultan. The mothers who died before their sons' accession to throne, never assumed the title of Valide Sultan like Hürrem, Muazzez, Mihrişah,[1][2] and Şermi.[3] On the other hand, step mothers who were not the biological mothers but raised the princes whose mothers had died assumed the title of Valide Sultan like Perestu. So there were Valide Sultans who were not the mothers, and there were mothers who were not the Valide Sultans.

The detailed list of the mothers

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Name Titles Maiden Name Origin Years of life Son(s)
Halime Hatun

(Tradition)[4]

Hatun Halime Turkish;

Seljuk Princess[5]

unknown Osman I
Malhun Hatun Hatun[6] Kameriye Malhun Turkish , Daughter of Ömer Abdülaziz Bey c. Unknown, Anatolia — Bursa, after 1326 Orhan I
Nilüfer Valide Hātûn
(1362 – 1363) 		Unknown Byzantine Greek Unknown — c. 1363, Bursa, Ottoman Sultanate Murad I
Gülçiçek Hatun unknown Greek 1335

Bithynia, Ottoman Empire

Bayezid I
Devlet Valide Hātûn
(5 July 1413-1414) 		unknown Unknown Unknown — 23 January 1414, Bursa, Ottoman Empire Mehmed I
Emine Valide Hātûn
(1421 – 1449) 		unknown Oghuz Turkic unknown, born in Elbistan, Beylik of Dulkadir —1449, Ottoman Empire Murad II
Hüma Valide Hātûn
(1444 – 1446) 		Esther or Stella unknown unknown — September 1449, Bursa, Ottoman Empire Mehmed II
Emine Gülbahar Mükrime Valide Hātûn
(1481 – 1492) 		unknown Albanian unknown, born in Albania — c. 1492, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Bayezid II
Ayşe Gülbahar Hatun Unknown Pontic Greek c. 1453, Vayvara, — 1505, Trabzon, Ottoman Empire Selim I
Ayşe Hafsa Valide Sultân
(1520 – 19 Mar 1534) 		Unknown European,[7] Turkish or Circassian[8][9] c. 1479 — 19 March 1534, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire Suleiman I
Hürrem Haseki Sultân
 Alexandra or Anastasia Lisowska Ruthenian c. 1504, Ruthenia, Kingdom of Poland — 15 April 1558, Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire Selim II
Nurbanu Haseki Sultân
(7 Sep 1566 – 15 Dec 1574)
Valide Sultân
(15 Dec 1574 – 7 Dec 1583) 		Cecilia Venier-Baffo or Rachel or Kalē Kartanou Venecian or Jewish or Greek c. 1528, Paros, Cyclades Islands, or Corfu, Republic of Venice — 7 December 1583, Bahçi Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire Murad III
Safiye Haseki Sultân
Valide Sultân
(15 Jan 1595 – 22 Dec 1603) 		Unknown Albanian[10] c. 1550, Dukagjin highlands, Albania — after 1619, Eski Palace, Bayezit Square, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire Mehmed III
Handan Valide Sultân
(22 Dec 1603 – 9 Nov 1605) 		Helena (Helen) Greek[11] or Bosnian c. 1568, Ottoman Greece or Ottoman Bosnia — 9 November 1605, Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire Ahmed I
Halime Valide Sultân
(22 Nov 1617 – 26 Feb 1618) and
(19 May 1622 – 10 Sep 1623) 		unknown Abkhaz[12]
c. 1570, Abkhazia, Ottoman Empire — after 1623, Eski Palace, Beyazıt Square, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire Mustafa I
Mahfiruz Hatun unknown unknown c. 1590 — c. 1610, Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire Osman II
Kösem Haseki Sultân
(26 Nov 1605 – 22 Nov 1617)
Valide Sultân
(10 Sep 1623 – 3 Sep 1651)
Naib-i-Sultanat
(10 Sep 1623 – 1632) and
(8 Aug 1648 – 3 Sep 1651) 		Anastasia Greek c. 1589, Tinos, Republic of Venice or Bosnia — 2 September 1651, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Murad IV
Ibrahim I
Turhan Haseki Sultân
(until 12 Aug 1648)
Valide Sultân
(3 Sep 1651 – 4 Aug 1683)
Naib-i-Sultanat
(3 Sep 1651 – 1656) 		Nadya Russian[13][14] or Ukrainian[15] c. 1627/1628, Ruthenia — 4 August 1683, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Mehmed IV
Saliha Dilaşub Haseki Sultân
(until 12 Aug 1648)
Valide Sultân
(8 Nov 1687 – 4 Dec 1689) 		Katarina Unknown Unknown — 3 January 1690, Edirne Palace, Edirne, Ottoman Empire Süleyman II
Muazzez Haseki Sultân
(until 12 Aug 1648) 		unknown unknown[16]
Unknown — 12 September 1687, Old Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire Ahmed II
Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Haseki Sultân
(until 8 Nov 1687)
Valide Sultân
(6 Feb 1695 - 6 Nov 1715) 		Evmania Voria From the Greek[17] or Venetian[18] Verzini family from the island of Crete[18][19][17][20] c. 1642, Rethymno, Republic of Venice — 6 November 1715, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Mustafa II
Ahmed III
Saliha Valide Sultân
(20 Sep 1730 – 21 Sep 1739) 		Unknown Greek[21] c. 1680, Unknown — 21 September 1739, Tırnakçı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire Mahmud I
Şehsuvar Valide Sultân
(13 Dec 1754 – 16 Apr 1756) 		Unknown Russian[16] c. 1682, Tsardom of Russia — 27 April 1756, Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Osman III
Emine Mihrişah[22] Kadın unknown unknown[16] / unknown — April 1732, Eski Palace, Beyazıt Square, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Mustafa III
Rabia Şermi[3] Kadın unknown unknown[16] / unknown — c. 1732, Eski Palace, Beyazıt Square, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid I
Mihrişah Valide Sultân
(7 Apr 1789 – 16 Oct 1805) 		Agnes Georgian[23] c. 1745, Georgia — 16 October 1805, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Selim III
Ayşe Sineperver Valide Sultân
(29 May 1807 – 28 July 1808) 		Unknown Presumably Circassian or Georgian[24] c. 1759/1760 — 11 December 1828, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Mustafa IV
Nakşidil Valide Sultân
(28 July 1808 – 22 August 1817) 		Georgian c. 1761 — 22 August 1817, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Mahmud II
Bezmiâlem Valide Sultân
(2 Jul 1839 – 2 May 1853) 		unknown Georgian[16] c. 1807, Georgia, Russian Empire — 2 May 1853, Beşiktaş Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Abdulmejid
Pertevniyal Valide Sultân
(25 Jun 1861 – 30 May 1876) 		Besime Romanian[25] or Circassian c. 1812 — 5 February 1883, Ortaköy Palace, Ortaköy, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Abdülaziz
Şevkefza Valide Sultân
(30 May 1876 – 31 Aug 1876) 		Unknown Georgian 12 December 1820 — 17 September 1889, Çırağan Palace, Ortaköy, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire Murad V
Tirimüjgan[26][27]
Kadin

Unknown Circassian 16 August 1819, Circassia — 3 October 1852, Feriye Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II
Gülcemal Kadin Unknown Bosnian c. 1826, Sarajevo, Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire — 29 November 1851, Ortaköy Palace, Ortaköy, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire Mehmed V
Gülistü Dördüncü Kadın
(1860 – May 1861) 		Fatma Chachba Abkhazian, of the Shervashidze or Chachba dynasty 1830, born in Sukhumi, Principality of Abkhazia — 1861, Eyüp Palace, Eyüp, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Mehmed VI

See also

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