Şehzade Murad (son of Cem Sultan)
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Roman Catholicism (later) |
Şehzade Murad, later Pierre Mehmed, prince de Sayd, was an Ottoman prince, son of Cem Sultan. Little is known about his early life. After their exile, Murad stayed in
Alexander VI created the Principate de Sayd in 1492 as a papal fief for him. Later, he married an Italian woman named Maria Concetta Doria, who had seven children from him, four sons and three daughters. When Suleiman the Magnificent conquered Rhodes in 1522, he insisted that Murad to be handed over him, whereupon he had the prince executed with his two oldest sons.[3]
References
- ^ a b Thuasne, Louis (1892). Djem, Sultan, fils de Mohammed II, frère de Bayezid II, (1459–1495) d'après les documents originaux en grande partie inédits: Etude sur la question d'orient à la fin du XVe siècle. Leroux. pp. 388–9.
- ^ OCLC 758546639.
- ^ a b Freely, John (2004). Jem Sultan: the adventures of a captive Turkish prince in Renaissance Europe. p. 312.
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