Kosem Sultan | Episode 63 | Season 1 | in Urdu

Naib-i-Sultanat of the Ottoman Empire
(first regency)
Regency 10 September 1623 – 18 May 1632
Predecessor None
Successor Turhan Hatice Sultan
Monarch Murad IV
(second regency)
Regency 8 August 1648 – 2 September 1651
Successor Turhan Sultan
Monarch Mehmed IV
Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Tenure 10 September 1623 – 2 September 1651
Predecessor Halime Sultan
Successor Turhan Sultan
Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
(Imperial Consort)
Tenure 26 November 1605 – 22 November 1617
Predecessor Safiye Sultan
Successor Ayşe Sultan
Born Anastasia
c. 1589[1]
Tinos, Republic of Venice
(currently the territory of Greece)
Died 2 September 1651 (aged 61–62)
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul
Spouse Sultan Ahmed I
Issue
Sons:
Şehzade Mehmed[2]
Sultan Murad IV[3][4]
Şehzade Süleyman[3][5]
Şehzade Kasım[3][4]
Sultan Ibrahim[3][4]
Daughters:
Gevherhan Sultan[3][6]
Ayşe Sultan[3][5]
Fatma Sultan[3][6]
Hanzade Sultan[6]
Religion Sunni Islam
(raised Greek Orthodox)
Kösem Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: كوسم سلطان‎, IPA: [cœˈsæm suɫˈtan]) (c. 1589[1] – 2 September 1651[7]) – also known as Mahpeyker Sultan[8][5] (Turkish pronunciation: [mahpejˈkæɾ suɫˈtan]; from the Persian compound ماه پيكر Māh-peyker meaning "Moon face") – was one of the most powerful women in Ottoman history.[9] Kösem Sultan achieved power and influenced the politics of the Ottoman Empire when she became haseki sultan as favourite consort and later second legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603–1617) (after Mahfiruze Hatice Sultan , who was the Sultan's first legal wife) and valide sultan[8] as mother of Murad IV (r. 1623–1640) and Ibrahim (r. 1640–1648), and grandmother of Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687).

Kösem lived in the Ottoman Empire as a courtier during the reign of six sultans: Ahmed I, Mustafa I, Osman II, Murad IV, Ibrahim, and Mehmed IV. After her death, she was known by the names "Valide-i Muazzama" (magnificent mother), "Vālide-i Maḳtūle" (murdered mother), and "Vālide-i Şehīde" (martyred mother).[10]

Contents
1 Early life
2 Haseki Sultan, the Imperial Consort
3 Retirement at the Old Palace
4 Valide Sultan, the Sultan's Mother and regent
4.1 First tenure
4.2 Second tenure
4.3 Third tenure
5 Death
6 Charities
7 Issue
7.1 Sons
7.2 Daughters
8 In popular culture
9 See also
10 Bibliography
11 Notes
Early life
Kösem is generally said to be of Greek origin,[11] the daughter of a priest on the island of Tinos whose maiden name was Anastasia[12][13][14] but these views do not seem reliable.[1] She was bought as a slave by the Bosnian Beylerbey, and sent, at the age of fifteen, to the harem of Sultan Ahmed I. Upon her conversion to Islam, her name was changed to Mahpeyker ("Moon-Faced" in Persian, meaning "beautiful"),[15] and later by Sultan Ahmed I to Kösem,[16] meaning "sheep leading the herd", indicating Kösem's leadership and political intelligence.
Kösem rose to prominence early in Ahmed's reign as part of a series of changes to the hierarchy of the imperial harem. Safiye Sultan, Ahmed's once-powerful grandmother and manager of the harem, was deprived of power and banished to the Old Palace (Eski Saray) in January 1604, and Handan Sultan, Ahmed's mother and Valide Sultan, died in November of the following year. These two vacancies allowed Kösem to rise to the top of the imperial harem hierarchy from her previous position as the Sultan's second or third concubine.[5]

As a Haseki Sultan to Ahmed I Kösem was considered his favorite consort and gave birth to many of his children.[5] During her time as haseki sultan she received 1,000 aspers a day.[17] As the mother to a number of princesses she had the right to arrange their marriages which were of political use.[5] Venetian ambassador Simon Contarini mentions Kösem in his report in 1612 and portrays her as:
"[A woman] of beauty and shrewdness, and furthermore ... of many talents, she sings excellently, whence she continues to be extremely well loved by the king ... Not that she is respected by all, but she is listened to in some matters and is the favorite of the king, who wants her beside him continually."[5]
Contarini reported in 1612 that the Sultan ordered a woman to be beaten for having irritated Kösem. She may have been Kösem's fell