Nurbanu Sultan
Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 to 1583
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- Momentum8.7
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Updated 2026-06-08
She held the second most powerful position in the Ottoman Empire without ever sitting on the throne. As the first official Valide Sultan during the Sultanate of Women, Nurbanu commanded state processions, corresponded with Catherine de' Medici, and maneuvered behind palace walls to check rivals — including her son's concubine and her own son-in-law, the Gran
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Presumably descended from Venetian nobility, Nurbanu entered the harem of the future Selim II around 1542 and gave birth to his first son, Murad, in 1546. When Selim became sultan in 1566, she led the imperial harem but never matched her mother-in-law Hürrem's influence — Selim deferred to his sister and his Grand Vizier, who also happened to be Nurbanu's son-in-law. After Selim died in 1574, she hid his body in ice until Murad could return from his provincial post. Once Murad took the throne, Nurbanu became the first to hold the formal title of Valide Sultan, a role so powerful that viziers a…
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