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Mihrişah Kadın (Ottoman Turkish: مھرشاہ قادین from the Persian compound مهر + شاه Mehr-ee Shâh "Light of the King"; c. 1693 - c. 1732) alias Emine (Ottoman Turkish: امینه) was a consort of Sultan Ahmed III and the mother of Sultan Mustafa III.
Life
Mihrişah was born in 1693 in France birth name Jeannette De Bazory. After entering the imperial harem she was given the name Mihrişah (meaning "Light of the King" in Persian). She became a concubine of Ahmed in 1710 .
On 25 August 1710 she gave birth to her first son Şehzade Süleyman (died 11 December 1732), on 28 January 1717 she gave birth to her second son Şehzade Mustafa.In 1728, when Süleyman was eighteen and Mustafa was nine she commissioned two fountains in Üsküdar.
Ahmed was deposed in 1730, and his nephew Sultan Mahmud I ascended the throne. Mihrişah along with other ladies of Ahmed's harem went to the Eski Palace, at Beyazıt Square.
Death and aftermath
Mihrişah suffered from severe illness in 1732 later on she didn’t recovered and died inthe same year 1732,and was buried in the mausoleum of Imperial Ladies, New Mosque, Istanbul.
Şehzade Mustafa ascended the throne as Mustafa III after Sultan Osman III's death in 1757. However, she was never Valide Sultan, as she had died before Mustafa ascended the throne. He commissioned the Ayazma Mosque in memory of his mother, and elder half brother Şehzade Süleyman. A fountain is also present near her tomb.
Sources
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