Alemshah Halime Begum
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| Alamshah Halima Begum | |
| Monarch | Quenn |
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| Died | 1522 |
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Alemshah Beyim (1460-1522) was an Aq Qoyunlu princess. She was the daughter of Uzun Hasan and Despina Khatun, and the mother of Shah Ismayil.
Name
There are different opinions about her real name.[1] It may have been Halima Bey Aga, Alemshah Bey,[2][3] or Martha.[4]
Life
Her father was the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Uzun Hasan and her mother was the daughter of John IV of Trebizond,[5] Theodora Megale Komnene, also known as "Despina Hatun".[6] There is no reliable information about the first years of her life. In 1471 she married Sheikh Haydar, the son of her aunt and the sheikh of the Safavid Order. They had three sons, Ali Mirza Safavi, Ibrahim and Ismail I and three daughters.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Həbib əl-Siyər, IV cild, səh. 425, 428
- ^ A. D. Możṭar, Cahanguşa-i Xaqan, İslamabad,1971.
- ^ İsgəndər bəy Münşi, Tarixe-aləmaraye-Abbasi
- ^ G. Sarwar, The History of Shāh Ismāʿīl Ṣafawī, Aligarh, 1939
- ^ Şərəf Xan Bitlisi ―Şərəfnamə, II cild, s. 133-134
- ^ Michel Kuršanskis, "La descendance d'Alexis IV, empereur de Trébizonde. Contribution à la prosopographie des Grands Comnènes", Revue des études byzantines, 37 (1979), pp. 239-247