{"id":"kosem-sultan","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kosem-sultan","language":"en","name":"Kösem Sultan","name_en":"Kösem Sultan","name_ne":null,"description":"Consort of Ahmed, Valide Sultan and regent of Murad IV and Ibrahim I, grandmother and regent of Mehmed IV","headline":"Consort of Ahmed, Valide Sultan and regent of Murad IV and Ibrahim I, grandmother and regent of Mehmed IV","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Kösem Sultan, also known as Mahpeyker Kösem Sultan, was the Haseki Sultan as a favorite consort and legal wife of Ottoman sultan Ahmed I and Valide Sultan as mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim, and grandmother of Mehmed IV. She effectively ruled as regent of the Ottoman Empire during the minority of Murad IV from 1623 to 1632, from 1640 to 1648 during the unstable rule of Ibrahim, and again from 1648 until her assassination in 1651 during the minority of Mehmed IV. She was one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history, as well as a central and controversial figure during the period known as the Sultanate of Women.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1589","date":"1589"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61127#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Tinos","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211285"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61127#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"2 September 1651","date":"1651-09-02"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61127#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Istanbul","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q406"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61127#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Ottoman Empire","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12560"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61127#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"regent","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q477406"},{"text":"slave","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12773225"},{"text":"writer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36180"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61127#P106"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Ahmed I","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114749","page":"https://diginpl.com/people/ahmed-i"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61127#P26"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"valide sultan (10 September 1623 – 18 August 1648)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q754089","start":"1623-09-10","end":"1648-08-18"},{"text":"regent (10 September 1623 – 18 May 1632)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q477406","start":"1623-09-10","end":"1632-05-18"},{"text":"haseki sultan (26 November 1605 – 22 November 1617)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59057","start":"1605-11-26","end":"1617-11-22"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61127#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6sem_Sultan","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61127"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Kösem Sultan born?","a":"Kösem Sultan was born on 1589 in Tinos."},{"q":"What positions has Kösem Sultan held?","a":"Positions held by Kösem Sultan include: valide sultan (1623–1648); regent (1623–1632); haseki sultan (1605–1617)."}],"related":[{"name":"Gyanendra of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gyanendra-of-nepal"},{"name":"Ferdinand II of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ferdinand-ii-of-aragon"},{"name":"Berengaria of Castile","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/berengaria-of-castile"},{"name":"John II of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/john-ii-of-aragon"},{"name":"Pope Adrian VI","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-adrian-vi"},{"name":"Ferdinand I of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ferdinand-i-of-aragon"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/kosem-sultan-396c607e5a.jpg","width":500,"height":876,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Claes Rålamb","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claes_R%C3%A5lamb_K%C3%B6sem_Sultan.png"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Kösem Sultan","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6sem_Sultan","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q61127","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61127","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Claes Rålamb Kösem Sultan.png by Claes Rålamb (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claes_R%C3%A5lamb_K%C3%B6sem_Sultan.png","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Kösem Sultan, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Claes Rålamb Kösem Sultan.png — Claes Rålamb, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Kösem Sultan\". DigiNepal. Last updated 9 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/kosem-sultan. Retrieved 9 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-09T06:51:08Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-09","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/kosem-sultan","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/kosem-sultan","ne":null}}