List of Ottoman imperial consorts

Last updated October 06, 2025

This is a list of consorts of the Ottoman sultans, the wives and concubines of the monarchs of the Ottoman Empire who ruled over the transcontinental empire from its inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 1922.

Honorific and titles

Hatun

Hatun (Ottoman Turkish : خاتون) was used as an honorific for women in the Ottoman period, roughly equivalent to the English term Lady . The term was being used for the Ottoman sultan's consorts. When the son of one of the consorts ascended the throne she became Valide Hatun (Mother of Sultan).

Sultan

Sultan (سلطان) is a word of Arabic origin, originally meaning "authority" or "dominion". By the beginning of the 16th century, the title of sultan, carried by both men and women of the Ottoman dynasty, was replacing other titles by which prominent members of the imperial family had been known (notably hatun for women and bey for men), with imperial women carrying the title of "Sultan" after their given names. Consequently, the title "Valide Hatun" also turned into "Valide Sultan". In this time, the title "Haseki Sultan" was created and used for the legal wife or Chief Consort of the Ottoman Sultan. For example, Hafsa Sultan, Suleiman's mother and first valide sultan, and Hürrem Sultan, Suleiman's legal wife and first haseki sultan. This usage underlines the Ottoman conception of sovereign power as family prerogative.^[1] Towards the end of the seventeenth century the title hatun and sultan for imperial consorts was replaced by Kadın and Ikbal.

Kadın

Kadın (Ottoman Turkish : قادين) was the title given to the consorts of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The title officially first came in use during the reign of Sultan Suleiman II. The Sultan could have up to four and some times five women with the imperial rank of Kadın and unlimited number of women with the rank of Ikbal.

Ikbal

Ikbal (Ottoman Turkish : اقبال) was the title given to the official consorts of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who came below the rank of Kadın. Their honorific was " Hanim ".

Consorts of the Ottoman sultans

Name	Birth name	Origin	Place of Origin	Marriage	Spouse
Malhun Hatun	Mal	Turkish	Anatolia		Osman I
Rabia Bala Hatun	Rabia	Turkish	Turkey		Osman I
Eftendize Hatun	Eftandise	Turkish	Anatolia	13th century	Orhan I
Asporça Hatun	Holofira, Olivera or Glafira	Greek	Bilecik
Nilüfer Hatun	Holofira ( Possible )	Greek	Byzantine Empire
Theodora Hatun	Theodora Kantakouzene	Greek	Byzantine Empire	1347 (legal marriage)
Gülçiçek Hatun	Maria	Greek	Byzantine Empire	1359 (disputed)	Murad I
Thamara Hatun	Kera Tamara	Bulgarian	Bulgarian Empire	1370 (legal marriage)
Melîke Hatun	Melîke	Turkish
Füldane Hatun	Maria Dejanovic Dragas	Serbian	Serbian Empire
Fülane Hatun	Olga Dejanovic Dragas	Serbian, daughter of Konstantin of Kostendil'^[2]	Serbian Empire	1372 (legal marriage)	Bayezid I
Sultan Hatun		Turkish	Kütahya, Germinayid Principality	1378 (disputed)
Angelina Hatun	Angelina	Greek^[3]^[4]	Greece
Hafsa Hatun	Hâfize	Turkish	Birgi, Aydinid Principality	1390 (legal marriage)
Olivera Despina	Mileva Olivera Lazarević	Serbian	Kruševac, Serbia	1390 (legal marriage)
Marija Hatun	Maria	Daughter of the Hungarian count Janos, she was freed by Timur and handed over to Henry III of Castile. She later married Payo Gomez de Soto Mayor^[3]^[5].	Hungary
Karamanoğlu Hatun
Devlet Hatun		Serbian	Serbia
Emine Hatun	Emine	Turkish	Elbistan, Dulkadirid Principality		Mehmed I
Şahzade Hatun		Turkish	Amasya, Kutluşah Principality
Kumru Hatun		Romanian
Halime Hatice Hatun					Murad II
Hüma Hatun		Slavic or Greek^[6]
Mara Despina Sultan	Mara Branković	Serb	Serbian Despotate	1435 (legal marriage)
Yeni Hatun		Turkish	Turkey
Gülbahar Hatun ^[7]^[8]^[9]		Albanian,^[10] Slavic,^[11] Pontic Greek^[6] or Turkish^[12]	Unknown		Mehmed II
Gülşah Hatun		Serbian	Serbia
Anna Hatun	Anna Komenene	Greek	Greece
Sittişah Hatun	Mükrime	Turkish	Elbistan, Dulkadirid Principality	1449 (legal marriage)
Çiçek Hatun		Serb or Turkish
Helena Hatun	Helena Palaiologina	Greek	Greece
Maria Hatun	Maria	Greek
Hatice Hatun	Hatice	Turkish
Şirin Hatun					Bayezid II
Hüsnüşah Hatun
Bülbül Hatun
Nigar Hatun
Gülruh Hatun
Ayşe Hatun	Ayşe	Turkish	Elbistan, Dulkadirid Principality
Muhtereme Ferahşad Hatun
Gülbahar Hatun
Gülfem Hatun
Mühurnaz Hatun
Ayşe Hatun	Ayşe	Crimean	Crimean Khanate		Selim I
Şirin Hatun
Nilüfer Hatun
Hafsa Sultan		European, Turkish or Circassian^[12]	Unknown
Zeynep Hatun
Yasemin Hatun ^[13]		Unknown			Suleiman I
Hübeh Hatun ^[13]		Unknown
Mahidevran Hatun ^[13]		Albanian,^[14] Circassian^[14] or Montenegrin^[15]	Albania, Circassia or Montenegro
Server Hatun ^[13]		Unknown
Hürrem Sultan	unknown	Ruthenian	Kingdom of Poland	1534 (legal marriage)
Nurbanu Sultan	Cecilia Venier-Baffo, Rachēl or Kalē Kartanoū	Venetian, Greek or Jewish	Paros, Republic of Venice or Corfu, Republic of Venice	1571 (legal marriage)	Selim II
Safiye Sultan		Albanian	Albania, Dukagjin Highlands		Murad III
Zerefsan Hatun
Nazperver Hatun	Dobra Basarab^{[ citation needed ]}	Moldovan	Moldova
Fakriye Hatun
Elif Hatun
Aygül Hatun
Şahıhuban Hatun
Rashida Hatun
Helena Hatun	Helena
Şemsiruhsar Hatun
Mihriban Hatun
Handan Sultan		Bosnian^[16] or Greek^[17]	Ottoman Bosnia or Ottoman Greece		Mehmed III
Halime Sultan		Abkhaz	Abkhazia
Fülane Hatun
Mahfiruz Hatice Hatun ^[12]^[18]					Ahmed I
Mahpeyker Kösem Sultan		Greek
Fatma Hatun
Șahzaman Hatun
Ayşe Sultan					Osman II
Meylișah Meleksima Hatun [ tr ]		Serbian

Akile Hatun	Akile	Turkish	Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Ayşe Sultan					Murad IV
Unnamed Haseki

Sanavber Hatun

Esma Hatun
Ayse Mahziba Hatun
Zafire Hatun		Georgian^[19]			Ibrahim I
Turhan Sultan		Russian^[20]^[21]
Saliha Dilaşub Sultan	Unknown^[22]^[23]	Unknown^[24]^[23]	Unknown^[25]^[23]
Hubyar Hatun
Hatice Muazzez Sultan
Mahienver Sultan
Saçbağlı Sultan
Şivekar Sultan		Armenian

Ayșe Sultan
Hümaşah Sultan				1647 (legal marriage)
Șakizula Hatun
Şekerpare Hatun
Handanzade Hatun
Meleki Hatun
Emetullah Rabia Gülnüş Sultan		From the Greek or Venetian Verzini family from the island of Crete^[26]^[27]^[28]^[29]	Rethymno, Crete, Republic of Venice		Mehmed IV
Afife Hatun
Kaniye Hatun
Siyavuș Hatun
Gülbeyaz Hatun
Nezvruz Hatun
Cihanșah Hatun
Dürriye Hatun
Gülnar Hatun
Güneş Hatun
Hatice Hatun
Rukiye Hatun
Hatice Kadın					Suleiman II
Behzad Kadın
İvaz Kadın
Süğlün Kadın
Şehsuvar Kadın
Zeyneb Kadın
Rabia Sultan					Ahmed II
Şayeste Hatun					Ahmed II
Alicenab Kadın					Mustafa II
Afife Kadın
Saliha Sultan		Greek
Şehsuvar Sultan		Russian	Russia
Bahtiyar Kadın
Hatice Kadın		Bosnian	Bosnia
Ivaz Kadın
Hüsnuşah Kadın
Emetullah Kadın					Ahmed III
Emine Mihrișah Kadın
Rabia Șermi Kadın
Ayşe Mihri Behri Kadın
Hatem Hanım
Hanife Hatun
Rukiye Kadın
Fatma Hümaşah Kadın
Gülneş Kadın
Hürrem Kadın
Meyli Kadın
Hatice Kadın
Nazife Kadın
Nejat Kadın
Muslı Emine Kadın
Sadıka Kadın
Hüsnüşah Kadın
Ümmügülsüm Kadın
Zeyneb Kadın
Hace Ayşe Kadın					Mahmud I
Hatem Kadın
Alicenab Kadın
Verdinaz Kadın
Hatice Rami Kadın
Tiriyal Kadın
Raziye Kadın
Meyyase Kadın
Fehmi Kadın
Sirri Kadın
Habbabe Kadın
Leyla Kadın					Osman III
Zevki Kadın
Ferhunde Kadın	Emine
Aynülhayat Kadın					Mustafa III
Mihrişah Sultan		Georgian	Georgia
Fehmi Kadın
Rifat Kadın
Adilşah Kadın	Ayşe
Binnaz Kadın
Gülnar Kadın
Ayşe Kadın					Abdul Hamid I
Ruhşah Kadın
Binnaz Kadın
Nevrez Kadın
Ayşe Sineperver Sultan		Georgian or Circassian^[30]
Mehtabe Kadın
Muteber Kadın
Şebsefa Fatma Kadın
Nakşidil Sultan		Georgian	Georgia
Hümaşah Kadın
Dilpezir Kadın
Mislimayab Kadın
Mihriban Kadın
Nükhetseza Kadın
Nefizar Kadınefendi					Selim III
Afitab Kadın
Zibifer Kadın
Tabısafa Kadın
Refet Kadın
Nürumşems Kadın
Hüsnümah Kadın
Demhoş Kadın
Goçenigar Kadın
Mahtube Kadın
Aynisefa Kadın
Pakize Kadın
Meryem Hatun
Şevkinür Kadın					Mustafa IV
Reykidil Kadın
Dilpezir Kadın
Seyyare Kadın
Fatma Kadın					Mahmud II
Alicenab Kadın
Nevfıdan Pertevpiyale Kadın				1823
Dilseza Kadın
Mislinayab Kadın
Kameri Kadın
Ebrireftar Kadın
Bezmiâlem Sultan	Suzzanne	Georgian		1822
Aşubcan Kadın		Circassian	Circassia	1808
Vüslat Kadın
Zernigar Kadın				1825
Nurtab Kadın
Haciye Hoşyar Kadın				1811
Pertizfekek Kadın
Pertevniyal Sultan		Romanian	Romania	1830
Hüsnımelek Kadın
Tiryal Hanım				1826
Lebrizifelek Hanım
Servetseza Kadın		Circassian	Maykop, Russia	1837	Abdulmejid I
Tirimüjgan Kadın		Circassian	North Caucasus	1840
Düzdidil Kadın	Ayşe Dişan	Ubykh	North Caucasus	2 October 1842
Şevkefza Sultan			Gagra	1 August 1839
Zeynifelek Hanım				1841
Gülcemal Kadin		Bosnian	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	1840
Verdicenan Kadın	Saliha Açba		Sukhum, Georgia	17 December 1840
Nükhetsezâ Hanım	Hatice Baras			21 October 1841
Mahitab Kadın	Nuriye	Chechen	Makhachkala, Russia	1845
Nesrin Hanım	Adile Asemiani			1842
Ceylanyar Hanım	Nafiye Berzeg	Ubykh	Sochi, Russia	1847
Nergizev Hanım		Natukhai	Anapa, Russia	1847
Navekmisal Hanım	Biberd			1848
Bezmiara Kadın		Circassian	Circassia	1849 - 1852 (Legal marriage)
Nalandil Hanım	Çıpakue	Natukhai	Anapa, Russia	1850
Şayeste Hanım	İnalipa		Sukhum, Georgia	1851
Serfiraz Hanım	Ayşe Liah			1852
Gülüstü Hanım	Fatma Çaçba		Sukhum, Abkhazia	August 1854
Rahıme Perestu Sultan	Rahime Gogen	Ubykh	Sochi, Russia	20 January 1856 (Legal marriage)
Dürrünev Kadın	Melek Dziapş-İpa		Batumi, Georgia	20 May 1856	Abdülaziz
Edadil Kadın	Aredba		Adlersky, Sochi,	1861
Hayranidil Kadın			Kars, Ottoman Empire	21 September 1865
Nesrin Kadın	Nesrin Zevş-Barakay	Ubykh	North Caucasus	1868
Gevheri Kadın	Emine Svatnba		Gudauta, Georgia	1872
Mevhibe Kadın	Mevhibe Tarkanişvili		Tbilisi, Georgia	21 January 1857	Murad V
Reftarıdil Kadın	Hatko			4 February 1859
Şayan Kadın	Safiye Zan	Natukhai	Anapa, Russia	5 February 1869
Meyliservet Kadın		Circassian	Batumi, Georgia	8 June 1874
Resan Hanım	Ayşe		Artvin, Ottoman Empire	2 November 1877
Nazikeda Kadın	Tsanba			1863	Abdul Hamid II
Nurefsun Kadın		Circassian	North Caucasus	October 1868 - 26 June 1879
Bedrifelek Kadın	Karzeg	Natukhai	Anapa, Russia	15 November 1868
Bidar Kadın	Talustan	Circassian	Kobuleti, Adjara, Georgia	2 September 1875
Dilpesend Kadın	Azize	Abkhazia	Tbilisi, Georgia	10 April 1884
Mezidimestan Kadın	Kadriye Mikanba		Gagra, Georgia	2 February 1885
Emsalinur Kadın	Kaya			20 November 1885
Müşfika Kadın	Ayşe Ağırba		Hopa, Caucasus	12 February 1886
Sazkar Hanım	Atiye Maan		Ayvacık, Çanakkale, Ottoman Empire	31 August 1890
Peyveste Hanım	Rabia Emuhvari		Pitsunda,	24 January 1893
Fatma Pesend Hanım	Fatma Kadriye Açba		Istanbul, Ottoman Empire	20 July 1896
Behice Hanım	Behiye Maan		Beynevi, Adapazarı, Ottoman Empire	10 May 1900
Saliha Naciye Hanım	Zeliha Ankuap	Georgian	Yukarı Ihsaniye, Bartın, Ottoman Empire	4 November 1904
Kamures Kadın		Ubykh		30 September 1872	Mehmed V
Dürrüaden Kadın	Hatice Voçibe	Circassian	Caucasus	10 October 1876
Mihrengiz Kadın	Fatma	Ubykh	Sochi, Russia	4 April 1887
Nazperver Kadın	Emine Çikotua		Istanbul, Ottoman Empire	1888
Dilfirib Kadın		Circassian	Istanbul, Ottoman Empire	1907
Nazikeda Kadın	Emine Marşan			8 June 1885	Mehmed VI
Inşirah Hanım	Seniye Voçibe	Ubykh	Maşukiye, Ottoman Empire	8 July 1905
Müveddet Kadın	Şadiye Çıhcı		Derbent, Russia	24 April 1911
Nevvare Hanım	Ayşe Çıhcı		Derbent, Russia	20 June 1918 - 20 May 1924
Nevzad Hanım	Nimet Bargu	Albanian	Istanbul, Ottoman Empire	1 September 1921

Notes

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↑ Sakaoğlu 2015, p. 89—90.
1 2 Alderson 1956, table XXIV (note 6).
↑ Sakaoğlu 2015, p. 89.
↑ Sakaoğlu 2015, p. 88—89.
1 2 Lowry 2012, p. 153.
↑ Süreyya, 1 Cild 1996, p. 15.
↑ Akyıldız 2012, p. 494.
↑ Emecen 1996, p. 230.
↑ Babinger 1992, p. 52.
↑ Alderson 1956, table XXVII (note. 9).
1 2 3 Alderson 1956, p. 83.
1 2 3 4 Peirce 2017, p. 101.
1 2 Peirce 1993, p. 55.
↑ Iorga 1909, p. 344.
↑ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 219.
↑ Iyigun, Murat (2015). War, Peace & Prosperity in the Name of God: The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution. University of Chicago Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-226-23228-7. Handan Sultan... Greek...
↑ Süreyya, 1 Cild 1996, p. 20.
↑ Artan, Tülay (2021). "Imaginary Voyages, Imagined Ottomans: A Gentleman Impostor, the Köprülüs, and Seventeenth-Century French Oriental Romances". In Kenan, Seyfi; Somel, Selçuk Aksin (eds.). Dimensions of Transformation in the Ottoman Empire from the Late Medieval Age to Modernity: In Memory of Metin Kunt. BRILL. pp. 54–96. doi:10.1163/9789004442351_004. ISBN 9789004442351.
↑ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 245; Baer 2011, p. 35; Cooke, Göknar & Parker 2008, p. 214; Carsten 1961, p. 505; Karaca 2012 .
↑ Ruth Barzilai-Lumbroso (2008). Turkish Men, Ottoman Women: Popular Turkish Historians and the Writing of Ottoman Women's History. ProQuest. ISBN 978-0-549-48355-7.
↑ A.D. Alderson, The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1955, p.83
1 2 3 Sakaoğlu 2008, pp. 253"Saraya ne zaman alındığı ve milliyeti bilinmeyen Dilâşûb, Sultan İbrahim'in ilk hasekilerindendir."
↑ A.D. Alderson, The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1955, p.83
↑ A.D. Alderson, The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1955, p.83
↑ İpşirli 1996 .
↑ Uluçay 2011 .
↑ Sakaoğlu 2015 .
↑ Alderson 1956.
↑ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 354.

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v t e Ottoman dynasty
Ottoman Empire Family tree (simplified) Family tree (detailed) Line of succession List of mothers
Sultans / caliphs	Osman I Orhan Murad I Bayezid I Interregnum Mehmed I Murad II Mehmed II Bayezid II Selim I Suleiman I Selim II Murad III Mehmed III Ahmed I Mustafa I Osman II Murad IV Ibrahim Mehmed IV Suleiman II Ahmed II Mustafa II Ahmed III Mahmud I Osman III Mustafa III Abdul Hamid I Selim III Mustafa IV Mahmud II Abdulmejid I Abdulaziz Murad V Abdul Hamid II Mehmed V Mehmed VI Abdulmejid II (Caliph only)
Claimants	Savcı Bey Süleyman Çelebi İsa Çelebi Musa Çelebi Mustafa Çelebi Küçük Mustafa Sultan Cem Şehzade Ahmet Şehzade Korkut Şehzade Mustafa Şehzade Bayezid Sultan Yahya Abdulmejid II Ahmed Nihad Osmanoğlu Osman Fuad Osmanoğlu Mehmed Abdülaziz Osmanoğlu Ali Vâsıb Osmanoğlu Mehmed Orhan Osmanoğlu Ertuğrul Osman Osmanoğlu Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu Dündar Ali Osmanoğlu
Valide sultans	Nilüfer Hatun Devlet Hatun Hüma Hatun Gülbahar Hatun Hafsa Sultan Nurbanu Sultan Safiye Sultan Handan Sultan Halime Sultan Kösem Sultan Turhan Sultan Aşub Sultan Gülnuş Sultan Saliha Sultan Şehsuvar Sultan Mihrişah Sultan Sineperver Sultan Nakşidil Sultan Bezmiâlem Sultan Pertevniyal Sultan Şevkefza Kadın Perestu Kadın
Haseki sultans	Hürrem Sultan Nurbanu Sultan Safiye Sultan Kösem Sultan Ayşe Sultan Ayşe Sultan Turhan Sultan Muazzez Sultan Aşub Sultan Hümaşah Sultan Şivekar Sultan Gülnuş Sultan Rabia Sultan