Kosem Sultan, Ottoman Valide sultan and regent (born 1589)

Kösem Sultan

Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Kösem Sultan, also known as Mahpeyker Sultan, was the Haseki Sultan as the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I, Valide Sultan as a mother of sultans Murad IV and Ibrahim and Büyük Valide Sultan as a grandmother of Sultan Mehmed IV as well as the Naib-I…