Editing Murad IV (section)

== Family ==
Due to the prominence of his mother [[Kösem Sultan]] during his reign and the fact that all of his sons died in infancy, Murad&nbsp;IV's family is not well known.

Only few of his many concubines are known and of the thirty-two children that [[Evliya Çelebi]] said that Murad&nbsp;IV had, five have not yet been identified, and the name of some of others is still unknown.

Furthermore, no child had a certain nominated mother.

=== Consorts ===
[[File:IV. Murat.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Murad&nbsp;IV]]
Murad&nbsp;IV had several consorts and concubines, but only few are known and some of them are disputed:<ref name=lpp>{{cite book |author=Leslie P. Peirce |title=The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L6-VRgVzRcUC |year=1993 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=107–108 |isbn=978-0-19-508677-5}}</ref><ref name="auto2">Yılmaz Öztuna - Sultan Genç Osman ve Sultan IV. Murad</ref><ref name="auto">Necdet Sakaoğlu - Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları</ref><ref>M. Çağatay Uluçay - Padişahların Kadınları ve Kızları</ref><ref name="auto3">François de Chassepol - Historia delli vltimi due gran visiri con alcuni secreti intrecci del Serraglio, e molte particolarità sopra le Guerre di Candia, Dalmatia, Transilvania, Polonia & Ungheria</ref><ref name="auto4">Du Loir - Les voyages du sieur Du Loir</ref>
*[[Ayşe Sultan (Haseki of Murad IV)|Ayşe Sultan]]. [[Haseki sultan|Haseki]] of Murad&nbsp;IV and the only one whose title is confirmed. 
*Unnamed Haseki (?). According to L. Pierce, Murad&nbsp;IV had a second Haseki in the last years of his reign. The identity and title of this concubine are however disputed, but some have proposed Şemsişah as a probable identity. She started with a salary of 2,751 daily [[aspron]]s, the highest ever recorded for a concubine, but after seven months it was reduced to 2,000 daily asprons, on par with Ayşe Sultan. She disappears from the records soon after Murad&nbsp;IV's death. 
*Sanavber Hatun. She founded a charity in the capital in 1628. Since this required high wealth and Murad's first children were born in 1627, she was likely one of his first concubines and the mother of at least one of Murad's older children.
*Safiye Hatun.
*Şemsperi Hatun. Disputed, according to some, it is just another name for Şemsişah.
*Emirgün's sister (disputed). Her brother, the governor of Yerevan, would offer her to Murad&nbsp;IV to earn his favors. Being beautiful, the sultan fell in love with her, but later left her in Damascus instead of taking her to the capital.
*Rosana Sultan (existence disputed, also called Rossana, Roxana or Roxane): according to the sources, she was the favorite of Murad&nbsp;IV, and she was tall, blonde and extremely pale. She had a bad temper and even the sultan feared her. She had followed him to war in 1635, but was sent back to Constantinople when Murad fell in love with Emirgün's sister. In the capital she was received with every honor, but jealousy for the new concubine led her to issue an imperial order to execute Murad&nbsp;IV's brothers, who hated her. When Murad returned, one of his sisters tried to accuse her, but he didn't believe her and furiously hit her. Eventually his mother Kösem Sultan managed to find evidence and witnesses against Rosana and Murad&nbsp;IV stabbed her himself. From that moment on, the sultan swore never to favor another woman. Although the story has spread widely in European sources (she in a main character of the play ''[[Bajazet (play)|Bajazet]]''), most historians dismiss it as a romantic legend or a fictionalized and more dramatic version of Ayşe Sultan's story. 

=== Sons ===
Murad&nbsp;IV had at least fifteen sons, but none of them survived infancy and all of them died before their father (who died in February 1640):<ref name="auto2"/><ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto3"/><ref name="auto4"/><ref name="auto1">Leslie P. Peirce (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508677-5.</ref><ref name="Akgunduz">{{cite book | last1=Akgunduz | first1=A. | last2=Ozturk | first2=S. | title=Ottoman History - Misperceptions and Truths | publisher=IUR Press | year=2011 | isbn=978-90-90-26108-9 | page=205}}</ref><ref name="Murphey">{{cite book | last=Murphey | first=R. | title=Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty: Tradition, Image and Practice in the Ottoman Imperial Household, 1400-1800 | publisher=Bloomsbury Academic | year=2008 | isbn=978-1-84725-220-3 | page=105}}</ref><ref name="naima">{{cite book | title=Naîmâ Târihi - Cilt 3 | author = Mustafa Naima Efendi | publisher=Zuhuri Danişman Yayinevi | year=1968 | pages = 1216, 1237, 1312, 1374}}</ref>
* Şehzade Ahmed ([[Constantinople]], 21&nbsp;December 1627 - Constantinople, 1637).
* Şehzade ''Fülan'' (Constantinople, March 1631 - Constantinople, March 1631). Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the [[Blue Mosque, Istanbul|Blue Mosque]].
* Şehzade Süleyman (Constantinople, February 1632 - Constantinople, 1632). Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.
* Şehzade Mehmed (Constantinople, 8&nbsp;August 1633 - Constantinople, 1638). Born in the Pavilion of the Kandilli Garden, buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.
* Şehzade ''Fülan'' (Constantinople, February 1634 - Constantinople, March 1634).
* Şehzade ''Fülan'' (Constantinople, 10&nbsp;March 1634 - Constantinople, March 1634).
* Şehzade Alaeddin (Constantinople, 16&nbsp;August 1635 - Constantinople, 1637). Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.
* Şehzade Ahmed ([[İzmit|Izmit]], 15&nbsp;May 1638 - 1639). He is referred to as "son of Haseki".
* Şehzade Abdülhamid (Constantinople, ? - Constantinople, ?). Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.
* Şehzade Selim (Constantinople, ? - Constantinople, ?). Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.
* Şehzade Orhan (Constantinople, ? - Constantinople, ?). Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.
* Şehzade Numan (Constantinople, ? - Constantinople, ?). Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.
* Şehzade Hasan (Constantinople, ? - Constantinople, ?). Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.
* Şehzade Mahmud (Constantinople, ? - Constantinople, ?). Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.
* Şehzade Osman (Constantinople, ? - Constantinople, ?). Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.

=== Daughters ===
Murad&nbsp;IV had at least thirteen daughters.<ref name="auto2"/><ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto3"/><ref name="auto4"/><ref name="auto1"/>

Unlike their brothers, at least eight of them survived at least to the age of marriage:
* ''Fülane'' Sultan ([[Constantinople]], 1627 - ?). She married Tüccarzade Mustafa Paşa in 1640.
* Gevherhan Sultan (Constantinople, February 1630 - ?). She married [[Haseki Mehmed Pasha]].
* Hanzade Sultan (Constantinople, 1631 - ?, after 1657). She married Nakkaş Mustafa Pasha and she was widowed in 1657.
* Ismihan Sultan (Constantinople, 1632 - Constantinople, 1632). Called also Esmihan Sultan.
* [[Kaya Sultan|Ismihan Kaya Sultan]] (Constantinople, 1630/1633 - Constantinople, 28 February 1658). She married [[Melek Ahmed Pasha|Melek Ahmed Paşah]] and she died in childbirth.<ref name="mustafa">{{cite book |author=Mustafa Çağatay Uluçay |title=Padişahların kadınları ve kızları |language=tr| publisher=Ankara, Ötüken |pages=80–90 |year=2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Rhoads |last=Murphey |title=Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture, 16th-18th Centuries |pages=214 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing Company |date=January 1, 2007 |isbn=978-0-7546-5931-0}}</ref><ref name="huseyn">{{cite book |author=Hafiz Hueseyin Ayvansaray-i |title=The Garden of the Mosques: Hafiz Hüseyin Al-Ayvansarayî's Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul |pages=10, 25 |publisher=Brill |year=2000 |isbn=978-9-004-11242-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Hafız Hüseyin |last1=Ayvansarayı̂ |first2=Ali |last2=Sâtı |first3=Süleyman |last3=Besîm |title=Hadı̂katü'l-cevâmi': İstanbul câmileri ve diğer dı̂nı̂-sivil miʻmârı̂ yapılar |publisher=İşaret |language=tr |year=2001| pages=46| quote=İsmihân Sultân bint-i Murâd Hân-ı Râbi' |isbn=978-9-753-50118-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Ahmet |last1=Kal'a |first2=Ahmet |last2=Tabakoğlu |title=İstanbul su külliyâtı: Vakıf su defterleri : İlmühaber 4 (1856–1928) |publisher=İstanbul Araştırmaları Merkezi |year=1999 |pages=76–7 | language=tr |quote=merhume İsmi- hân Kaya Sultân tâbe serâhâ |isbn=978-9-758-21504-1}}</ref>
* Rabia Sultan (Constantinople, ? - Constantinople, ?). She lived to adulthood, although no marriages are known. Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.
* Fatma Sultan (Constantinople, ? - Constantinople, ?). Buried in the Ahmed&nbsp;I mausoleum in the Blue Mosque.
* Bedia Sultan (Constantinople, ? - ?).
* Bedia Ayşe Sultan (Constantinople, ? - ?). She married Malatuk Süleyman Paşa before 1655.
* Hafsa Sultan (Constantinople, ? - ?). She married Ammarzade Mehmed Paşah.
* Safiye Sultan (Constantinople, after 1634 - Constantinople, {{circa|1670}}). She married firstly on 27&nbsp;August 1649 to Hayderağazade Mehmed Pasha,<ref name=miovic>{{cite journal | last=Miović | first=Vesna | title=Per favore della Soltana: moćne osmanske žene i dubrovački diplomati | journal=Anali Zavoda za Povijesne Znanosti Hrvatske Akademije Znanosti i Umjetnosti u Dubrovniku | issue=56/1 | date=2018-05-02 | volume=56 | issn=1330-0598 | doi=10.21857/mwo1vczp2y | pages=147–197 | language=hr | doi-access=free }}</ref>{{rp|p=168}}<ref name="naima4">{{cite book | title=Naîmâ Târihi - Cilt 4 | author = Mustafa Naima Efendi | publisher=Zuhuri Danişman Yayinevi | year=1968 | page = 1976}}</ref> married secondly Sarı Abaza Hüseyin Paşah (brother or son of Grand Vizier [[Abaza Siyavuş Pasha|Siyavuş Paşah]]) in 1659. She had three sons and a daughter: Sultanzade Abubekr Bey, Sultanzade Mehmed Remzi Paşah (d. 21&nbsp;November 1719), Sultanzade Abdüllah Bey (stillborn, {{circa|1670}}) and Rukiye Hanımsultan (died January 1697). She died to give birth to Abdüllah.
* Rukiye Sultan (Constantinople, 1640 - 1696). She married Şeytân Melek İbrâhîm Pasha and was widowed in 1685. She had two daughters: Fatma Hanımsultan (1677 - 1727) and Ayşe Hanımsultan (1680 - 1717).<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha]] |title=ZEYL-İ FEZLEKE (1065-22 Ca.1106 / 1654-7 Şubat 1695) |year=2012 |page=376}}</ref> She was buried in the [[Şehzade Mosque]].
*Esma Sultan (? - ?). She died in infancy.