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Sultan Murad, III

Male 1546 - 1595  (48 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 83 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Murad  
    Prefix Sultan 
    Suffix III 
    Birth 4 Jul 1546  Manisa Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 15-16 Jan 1595  Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Türkiye Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I488444  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 4 Oct 2020 

    Father Sultan Selim, II,   b. 28 May 1524   d. 15 Dec 1574 (Age 50 years) 
    Mother Cecilia Venier-Baffo   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F196102  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sofia Baffo,   b. Abt 1550   d. 1605-1619 (Age 69 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Sultan Mehmed, III,   b. 26 May 1566   d. 22 Dec 1603 (Age 37 years)
    Family ID F196103  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Nov 2009 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 4 Jul 1546 - Manisa Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 15-16 Jan 1595 - Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Türkiye Link to Google Earth
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    • Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595

      He began his reign by having his five younger brothers strangled. His authority was undermined by the harem influences, more specifically, those of his mother and later of his favorite wife Safiye Sultan . The power had only been maintained under Selim II by the genius of the all-powerful Grand Vizier Mehmed Sokollu who remained in office until his assassination in October 1579. The reign of Murad III was marked by wars with Iran and Austria and Ottoman economic decline and institutional decay.
      He had two large alabaster urns transported from Pergamon and placed on two sides of the nave in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

      From him descend all succeeding Sultans, through his marriage to his maternal relative Valide Sultan Safiye Sultan , originally named Sofia Baffo, a Venetian noblewoman, mother of Mehmed III .
      A large wax candle dressed in tin which donated by him to the Rila monastery in Bulgaria is on display in the monastery museum.
      Numerous envoys and letters were exchanged between Elizabeth I and Sultan Murad III. In one correspondence, Murad entertained the notion that Islam and Protestantism had "much more in common than either did with Roman Catholicism , as both rejected the worship of idols", and argued for an alliance between England and the Ottoman Empire. To the dismay of Catholic Europe, England exported tin and lead (for cannon-casting) and ammunitions to the Ottoman Empire, and Elizabeth seriously discussed joint military operations with Murad III during the outbreak of war with Spain in 1585, as Francis Walsingham was lobbying for a direct Ottoman military involvement against the common Spanish enemy



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