Alamshah Halime Begum
| Alamshah Halime Begum | |
|---|---|
| Queen mother of Safavid Iran | |
| Tenure | 1501–1522 |
| Successor | Tajlu Khanum |
| Born | 1460 Diyarbekir, Aq Qoyunlu |
| Died | 1522 (aged 61–62) Ardabil, Safavid Iran |
| Burial | Sheikh Safi Shrine Ensemble, Ardabil, Iran |
| Spouse | Shaykh Haydar |
| Issue | |
| Dynasty | Aq Qoyunlu (by birth) Safavid (from 1501) |
| Father | Uzun Hasan |
| Mother | Teodora Despina Khatun |
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Alamshah Halime Begum (Persian: عالمشاه حلیمه بیگم; 1460–1522) was a Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu princess. She was the daughter of Uzun Hasan and Teodora Despina Khatun, and the mother of Ismail I.
Name
There are different opinions about her real name.[2] It may have been Halima, Halime, Alamshah, Alemshah, Alamşah, Alemşah,[3][4] or Martha.[5]
Life
Her father was the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Uzun Hasan and her mother was the daughter of John IV of Trebizond,[6] Theodora Megale Komnene, also known as "Despina Khatun".[7] There is no reliable information about the first years of her life. In 1471, she married Shaykh Haydar, the son of her paternal aunt Khadija Khatun and the sheikh of the Safavid Order. They had three sons, Ali Mirza, Ebrahim Mirza and Ismail I and four daughters.
Issue
By her husband, she had three sons and four daughters:
- Ali Mirza (Dead 1494), He was the penultimate head of the Safavid order
- Ebrahim Mirza
- Ismail I (1487 – 1524), First Shah of the Safavid Empire
- Fakhr Jahan Khanum, She married Bayram Beg Qaramanlu
- Melek Khanum, She married Abdallah Khan Shamlu
- A daughter who married Husayn Beg Shamlu
- A daughter who married Shah Ali Beg
References
- ↑ Robinson, Basil William (1993). Studies in Persian Art. Pindar Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-907132-43-1.
No other prince of the time can be credibly associated with this work, and the galloping bearded prince in the center of the composition, we may be permitted to recognize a contemporary portrait of the founder of the White Sheep Turkman power. Uzun Hasan.
- ↑ 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