Editing Murad IV (section)

=== Consorts ===
[[File:IV. Murat.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Murad&nbsp;IV]]
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*[[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.