Editing Orhan (section)

===Consorts=== 
Orhan had at least seven consorts<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Peirce |first=Leslie P. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27811454 |title=The imperial harem : women and sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire |date=1993 |isbn=0-19-507673-7 |location=New York |pages=34–35 |oclc=27811454}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=March 2025}}<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Sakaoğlu |first=Necdet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6WUMAQAAMAAJ |title=Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler |date=2008 |publisher=Oğlak Yayıncılık |isbn=978-975-329-623-6 |pages=42–62 |language=tr}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=March 2025}} (five according to Alderson,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Alderson |first=A. D. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8115229 |title=The structure of the Ottoman dynasty |date=1982 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=0-313-22522-2 |location=Westport, Conn. |chapter=Orhan I, Tav.XXII |oclc=8115229}}</ref> four according to Uluçay<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Uluçay |first=M. Çağatay |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/854893416 |title=Padişahların kadınları ve kızları |date=2011 |publisher=Ötüken |isbn=978-975-437-840-5 |edition=[5.basım] |location=Ankara |pages=4–5 |language=En |chapter=Orhan I |oclc=854893416}}</ref>): 
* Bayalun Hatun. She is also called, among the different variants, Baylun, Bilun, Suilun, Biliven and Niliven. Maybe she was the daughter of the ''[[tekfur]]'' of [[Bilecik]] who was kidnapped by the Ottomans during the attack on her father's fortress and given to Orhan as his concubine in 1299. In 1331, she was the consort of Orhan who welcomed [[Ibn Battuta]] to Bursa.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sakaoğlu |first=Necdet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6WUMAQAAMAAJ |title=Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler |date=2008 |publisher=Oğlak Yayıncılık |isbn=978-975-329-623-6 |pages=39–40 |language=tr}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
* Efendize Hatun. Also called Efendi, Eftendize or Efendire Hatun, was the daughter of [[Gündüz Alp|Akbaşlı Günduz Bey]], Osman I's brother, and so Orhan's cousin. She was the mother of Süleyman Pasha, the eldest and favorite Orhan's son.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=ORHAN (ö. 763/1362) Osmanlı padişahı (1324-1362|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/orhan|access-date=2024-04-23 |website=TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi |language=tr}}</ref><ref name=":5" />
* [[Asporça Hatun]]. Noblewoman of Byzantine-Greek origins, born Holofira, Olivera or Glafira. She was Orhan's first legal wife and mother of two sons and two daughters. 
* Melek Hatun. She was the daughter of Melik Bey, son of Osman I, and thus the niece of Orhan. She was mother of Sultan Hatun.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=MAL HATUN |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/mal-hatun |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi |language=tr}}</ref> 
* [[Nilüfer Hatun]]. Christian slave of Greek descent, mother of Orhan's successor Murad I.
* [[Theodora Kantakouzene (wife of Orhan)|Theodora Kantakouzene]]. Daughter of [[John VI Kantakouzenos]] and Orhan's second legal wife, she married Orhan in 1346. Remained a Christian after her marriage. Mother of Halil Bey.
* Theodora Uroš (died in 1352/1354). [[Stefan Dušan|Stefan IV Dušan]] and [[Helena of Bulgaria, Empress of Serbia|Helena of Bulgaria]]'s daughter. She married Orhan around 1351, when he was seventy, while she was twelve.<ref name=":1" />