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Şehzade Murad (son of Cem Sultan)

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In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Murad, the title is Şehzade, and there is no family name.
Murad
Pierre Mehmed of Sayd
Şehzade of the Ottoman dynasty
1st Prince of Sayd
Born1475
Konya, Ottoman Empire
DiedDecember 1522(1522-12-00) (aged 46–47)[1]
Rhodes, Ottoman Empire
SpouseMaria Concetta Doria
IssueTwo sons[2]
Pietro Oshin Said, 2nd Prince of Sayd[2]
Nicola or Niccolò Cem Said
Unnamed three daughters[1][3]
DynastyOttoman
FatherCem Sultan
MotherGülşirin Hatun
ReligionSunni Islam (previously)
Roman Catholicism (later)

Şehzade Murad, later Pierre Mehmed, 1st Prince of Sayd (1475 - December 1522), was an Ottoman prince, son of Cem Sultan and Gülşirin Hatun.

Life

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Little is known about his early life. After their exile, Murad stayed in Cairo and later escaped to Rhodes, because he feared that the Mamluks would surrender him to Bayezid II, who executed his half-brothers Abdullah and Oğuzhan. Marino Sanuto says that on 5 December 1516, an ambassador of the Mamluk sultan came to Rhodes to demand the surrender of Murad, but the knights refused outright. Murad was given the Château de Fondo as his residence and showed gratitude by converting to Roman Catholicism, changing his name to Pierre. Pope Alexander VI created the Principate de Sayd in 1492 as a papal fief for him. Later, in 1498, he married an Italian woman named Maria Concetta Doria, born in 1484, daughter of Baldassare Doria and wife Bartolommea 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 by strangulation with his two oldest sons.[3]

Issue

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By his wife, he had seven children, four sons and three daughters:

  • Two sons. Strangled together with their father in December 1522, by order of their relative Suleiman the Magnificent;
  • Pietro Oshin Said (Rome, 1500 - Naples, 1594), 2nd Prince of Sayd, married Teresa Grimaldi, daughter of Luca Grimaldi and Pellina Spinola, and had:
    • Gianbattista Said (Naples, 1554 - 1602), 3rd Prince of Sayd, 1st Prince of Bibino Magno. In 1599, he married Eleonora Abela, Baroness of Bibino Magno, daughter of Paolo Abela and Imperia Mannara, with issue.
    • Djem Said (Naples, 1561 - 1641), 4th Prince of Sayd, a monk in 1600. He married Matilda Ruffo (dead in 1599), natural daughter of Virgilio Ruffo of the Counts of Sinopoli, with issue.
  • Nicola or Niccolò Cem Said (Rome, 1505 - Santi, 1536). He married in Burgo in 1512 Angela del Burgo, daughter of Giorgio del Burgo and Antonella La Barba, and had:
    • Gianpiero Said (Santi, 1521 - Santi, 1600). He married in Zebbug in 1559 Marguerita Borgo (1537 - 1592), daughter of Giovanni Borgo and Eleonora Vassallo, with issue.
  • Three daughters, whose name are unknown.

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b Caron, Maurice (2010). "4th part". Djem un prince dans la tourmente (in French). Impr. Corlet numérique). Villeurbanne: Les Éd. du Zeugma. Part IV, 5. ISBN 978-2-9534413-3-8. OCLC 758546639.
  3. ^ a b Freely, John (2004). Jem Sultan: the adventures of a captive Turkish prince in Renaissance Europe. p. 312.
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