Nurbanu Sultan

Nurbanu Sultan
Nurbanu’s burial
Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Tenure15 December 1574 – 7 December 1583
PredecessorHafsa Sultan
SuccessorSafiye Sultan
Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
(Imperial Consort)
Tenure7 September 1566 – 15 December 1574
PredecessorHürrem Sultan
SuccessorSafiye Sultan
BornCecilia Venier-Baffo or Kalē Kartanou or Rachel
c.1525
Paros, Cyclades Islands, Ottoman Empire, or Corfu, Republic of Venice
Died(1583-12-07)7 December 1583 (aged 58)
Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1571; died 1574)
IssueŞah Sultan
Gevherhan Sultan
Ismihan Sultan
Murad III
Adoptive
Kapıcıbaşı Mahmud
Names
Turkish: Nurbanu Sultan
Ottoman Turkish: نوربانو سلطان
FatherNicolò Venier (?)
MotherViolante Baffo (?)
ReligionSunni Islam, previously Roman Catholic or Jewish or Greek Orthodox

Nurbanu Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: نور بانو سلطان; c. 1525 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and legal wife of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), as the mother of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1583) and the Valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 to till her death in 1583. She was one of the most prominent figures during the time of the Sultanate of Women.