Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha
29º Ottoman Grand Vizier (1493-1536) · Turkey · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1495 to 1536 · aged 41
He rose from enslaved Christian boy to the most powerful grand vizier in Ottoman history - then was executed by the sultan who had been his closest friend.
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Draft of the 1536 Treaty negotiated between Jean de La Forest and Ibrahim Pacha expanding to the whole Ottoman Empire the privileges received in Egypt from the Mamluks before 1518
Grave of Pargalı İbrahim Paşa
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Ibrahim Pasha (detail) suppresses the Kalender Çelebi rebellion in 1527. Süleymanname, TSM Haz 1517, f.248aAbout this person
Born around 1495 as an Orthodox Christian, Ibrahim was enslaved in his youth and became close friends with the future Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. In 1523, Suleiman appointed him grand vizier, bypassing the man his father had chosen. For thirteen years Ibrahim wielded authority matched by only a handful of grand viziers in the empire's history, accumulating vast wealth and influence, much of it gifted directly by Suleiman. On 15 March 1536, the sultan ordered his execution and the state seized everything he owned.
