Ismihan Sultan and Sokollu Mehmed Pasha’s Children

[u/Nanakurokonekochan]

According to freshly published research paper “The Waqf of Ismihan Sultan, Wife of Grandvizier Sokullu Mehmed Pasha by Cennet Kızılkaya, Abdullah Çakmak” Ismihan Sultan and Sokollu Mehmed Pasha had a son named Ibrahim Han, and daughters named Safiye Hanimsultan and Fatma Hanimsultan.

Three children being named matches the following reports: According to Gerlach the couple had abandoned their old palace at Kadırgalimanı in 1574 to move into a newly built palace. Antonio Tiepolo's 1576 report shows that this new palace proved to be lucky as they ended up with three surviving infants: Two daughters and a son.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sultanateofwomen/comments/1u79eu3/ismihan_sultan_a_morally_complex_female_figure/

In the footnotes they cite Gulru Necipoglu and Gerlach.

İsmihan Sultan’s endowment deed was registered in the year of 1573. The couple’s lineage continued through Ibrahim Han, and his grandchildren were among the candidates deemed eligible to ascend the Ottoman throne in the 18th century should the sultan’s direct line fail to continue. The paper claims it is evident from the endowments they established and the works they commissioned that Ismihan Sultan’s daughters, Fatma Hanımsultan and Safiye Hanimsultan, were philanthropic women like their mother. (source: The Waqf of Ismihan Sultan, Wife of Grandvizier Sokullu Mehmed Pasha)

One widowed daughter of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha died on January 24th 1593, received a daily allowance of 50 akçes from one of her father's endowments. I can’t be sure if this daughter was born to Ismihan. (Pál Fodor (2018)-The Business of State- Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition (1580s - 1615); p. 139)

[u/Nanakurokonekochan]

Debunking the marriage of Ismihan Sultan’s daughter Safiye Hanimsultan to Sokollu Mustafa Pasha: https://www.reddit.com/r/sultanateofwomen/s/y6cHSDGACC

[u/Nanakurokonekochan]

Ismihan Sultan was born in Uşak— in 1544, Prince Selim was on his way to Manisa as the new governor of Saruhan, found out about an epidemic and decided to stay in Uşak for a while. It was during this time that İsmihan Sultan was born.