Sultan Selim, II

1524 - 1574  (50 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 84 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Selim
  Prefix	Sultan
  Suffix	II
  Birth	28 May 1524
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Dec 1574
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  + 1. Sultan Selim, II,   b. 28 May 1524   d. 15 Dec 1574  (Age 50 years) ▻ Cecilia Venier-Baffo   2. Bayezid   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Jihangir   d. Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I488442	Geneagraphie
  Links To	This person is also Selim II at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Sultan Sulaiman, I, 'the Magnificent',   b. 6 Nov 1494   d. 1566 (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Hürrem Sultan,   b. Abt 1510   d. 18 Apr 1558 (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F196101	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Cecilia Venier-Baffo   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Sultan Murad, III,   b. 4 Jul 1546, Manisa d. 15-16 Jan 1595, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Türkiye (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F196102	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2009

  
  

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  Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574 After gaining the throne after palace intrigue and fraternal dispute, succeeded as Sultan on 7 September 1566, Selim II became the first Sultan devoid of active military interest and willing to abandon power to his ministers, provided he was left free to pursue his orgies and debauches. Therefore, he became known as Selim the Drunkard or Selim the Sot (Turkish:Sarho Selim). His Grand Vizier , Mehmed Sokollu , a Serbian devsirme from what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina , controlled much of state affairs, and two years after Selim's accession succeeded in concluding at Constantinople an honourable treaty (17 February 1568) with the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor , Maximilian II , whereby the Emperor agreed to pay an annual "present" of 30,000 ducats and essentially granted the Ottomans authority in Moldavia and Walachia . Against Russia Selim was less fortunate, and the first encounter between the Ottoman Empire and her future northern rival gave presage of disaster to come. A plan had been prepared in Constantinople for uniting the Volga and Don by a canal, and in the summer of 1569 a large force of Janissaries and cavalry were sent to lay siege to Astrakhan and begin the canal works, while an Ottoman fleet besieged Azov . But a sortie of the garrison of Astrakhan drove back the besiegers; a Russian relief army of 15,000 attacked and scattered the workmen and the Tatar force sent for their protection; and finally, the Ottoman fleet was destroyed by a storm. Early in 1570 the ambassadors of Ivan IV of Russia concluded at Constantinople a treaty which restored friendly relations between the Sultan and the Tsar . Expeditions in the Hejaz and Yemen were more successful, but the conquest of Cyprus in 1571, which provided Selim with his favourite vintage, led to the calamitous naval defeat against Spain and Italian states at Lepanto in the same year, freeing the Mediterranean Sea from corsairs . The Empire's shattered fleets were soon restored (in just six months; it consisted of about 150 galleys and 8 galleasses) and the Ottomans maintained control of the Mediterranean (1573). In August 1574, months before Selim's death, the Ottomans regained control of Tunisia from Spain who had controlled it since 1572. Lord Patrick Kinross ' account of Selim's reign is how he starts a chapter of his book called "The Seeds of Decline". He sees the massive outlay for the fleet-rebuilding following the Battle of Lepanto as the start of the Empire's slow decay. Kinross also says that Selim's reputation for drunkenness was solidified in his decision to invade Cyprus rather than supporting the Morisco Revolt in Granada as well as in the manner of his death; Selim died after a period of fever brought on when he drunkenly slipped over on the wet floor of an unfinished bath-house (Kinross 1977, p. 273).