Editing Murad III (section)

===Daughters===
Murad had more than thirty daughters still alive at his death in 1595, of whom nineteen died of [[Plague (disease)|plague]] (or smallpox) in 1598.<ref>{{cite book|title=Disease and Empire: A History of Plague Epidemics in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (1453–1600)|year=2008|pages=145|isbn=978-0-549-74445-0}}</ref><ref name="Argit">{{cite book | last=Argit | first=B.İ. | title=Life after the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage and the Imperial Ottoman Court | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=2020 | isbn=978-1-108-48836-5 | page=109}}</ref>

It is not known if and how many daughters may have died before him.

Known daughters of Murad III are:
* [[Hümaşah Sultan (daughter of Murad III)|Hümaşah Sultan]] (Manisa, {{circa}} 1564 - Costantinople, 1625 {{rp|p=168}}); buried in Murad III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque) - with Safiye Sultan. Also called Hüma Sultan.<ref>{{cite book|first=Yusuf |last=Sarinay|title=82 Numaralı Mühimme Defteri'nin (H.1026-1027/1617-1618) Transkripsiyonu ve Değerlendirilmesi|publisher=T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü|year=2000|page=7}}</ref> She married Nişar Mustafazade Mehmed Pasha (died 1586). She may have then married [[Serdar Ferhad Pasha]] (d.1595) in 1591.<ref>{{cite book|first=Necdet|last=Sakaoğlu|title=Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler|publisher=Oğlak Yayıncılık|year=2008|page=217}}</ref> She was lastly married in 1605 to Nakkaş Hasan Pasha (died 1622);{{sfn|Miović|2018|p=168}}<ref name="pecevi"/><ref name="tezcan"/><ref name="Great">{{cite book | author=Great Britain. Public Record Office | title=Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts Relating to English Affairs: Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice, and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy | publisher=H.M. Stationery Office | issue=v. 10 | year=1900 | page=442}}</ref><ref name="TDV">{{cite web | title=Nakkaş Hasan Paşa| website=TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi | url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/nakkas-hasan-pasa | language=tr | access-date=February 22, 2024}}</ref> 
* [[Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Murad III)|Ayşe Sultan]] (Manisa, {{Circa|1565}} - Costantinople, 15 May 1605, buried in Murad III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque) - with Safiye Sultan. Married firstly on 20 May 1586, to [[Damat Ibrahim Pasha|Ibrahim Pasha]],<ref name="pecevi">{{cite book|first1=Ibrahim|last1=Peçevi|first2=Bekir Sıtkı|last2=Baykal|title=Peçevi Tarih, Volume 2|year=1982|publisher=Başbakanlık Matbaası|pages=3}}</ref> married secondly on 5 April 1602, to [[Yemişçi Hasan Pasha]], married thirdly on 29 June 1604, to Güzelce Mahmud Pasha.<ref name="tezcan">{{cite book|first=Baki|last=Tezcan|title=Searching For Osman: A Reassessment Of The Deposition Of Ottoman Sultan Osman II (1618-1622)|year=2001|pages=328 n. 18}}</ref><ref name="ulucay">{{cite book|first=Mustafa Çağatay |last=Uluçay|title=Padişahların kadınları ve kızları|location=Ankara|publisher= Ötüken|year=2011|isbn=978-975-437-840-5}}</ref>
* [[Fatma Sultan (daughter of Murad III)|Fatma Sultan]] (Manisa, {{circa}} 1573 - Costantinople, 1620, buried in Murad III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque) - with Safiye Sultan. Married first on 6 December 1593, to Halil Pasha,<ref name="pecevi"/><ref name="ulucay"/> married second December 1604, to Cafer Pasha;<ref name="tezcan"/> married third 1610 Hizir Pasha, married fourth [[Kuyucu Murad Pasha|Murad Pasha]].
* [[Mihrimah Sultan (daughter of Murad III)|Mihrimah Sultan]] (Costantinople, 1578/1579 - after 1625 ; buried in Murad III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque<ref name="Demircanlı"/>) - possibly with Safiye Sultan;<ref name="tezcan"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Uçtum |first=Nejat R. |title=Hürrem ve Mihrümah sultanların Polonya Kralı II. Zigsmund'a Yazdıkları Mektuplar |pages=707}}</ref>
* [[Fahriye Sultan]] (died in 1656, buried in Murad III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque<ref name="Demircanlı">{{cite book | last=Demircanlı | first=Y.Y. | title=İstanbul mimarisi için kaynak olarak Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi | publisher=Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü | year=1989 | isbn=978-975-19-0121-7 | page=599}}</ref>), - possibly with Safiye Sultan, perhaps born after her return from exile in [[Eski Saray|Old Palace]]. Called also Fahri Sultan.<ref name="Kahya">{{cite thesis | last=Kahya | first=Ozan | title=11 numaralı İstanbul Mahkemesi defteri (H.1073) : tahlil ve metin | date=2011 | url=https://acikerisim.msgsu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/20.500.14124/3808 | pages=219, 303–304}}</ref>{{sfn|Miović|2018|p=168}} She married firstly to Cuhadar Ahmed Pasha, Governor of Mosul, married secondly to Sofu Bayram Pasha, Governor of [[Bosnia Eyalet|Bosnia]] (died in 1633);,<ref name="ulucay" /><ref name="Ayvansarayî">{{cite book | last1=Ayvansarayî | first1=H.H. | last2=Derin | first2=F.Ç. | title=Vefeyât-ı selâtîn ve meşâhı̂r-i ricâl | publisher=Edebiyat Fakültesi Matbaası | series=Yayınlar (İstanbul Üniversitesi. Edebiyat Fakültesi) | year=1978 | page=45}}</ref><ref name="dumas">{{cite book |first=Juliette |last=Dumas |title=Les perles de nacre du sultanat: Les princesses ottomanes (mi-XVe – mi-XVIIIe siècle)|year=2013 |page=464}}</ref>{{rp|p=168}} married thirdly to Deli Dilaver Pasha (died 1668).{{rp|p=168}}<ref name="Cikar">{{cite book | last=Cikar | first=J. | title=Türkischer Biographischer Index | publisher=De Gruyter | year=2011 | isbn=978-3-11-096577-3 | page=290}}</ref>
* Rukiye Sultan (buried in Murad III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque) - with Şemsiruhsar Hatun.<ref name="ulucay"/><ref name="altun" /><ref name="pecevi"/><ref name="tezcan"/><ref name="The Cambridge History of Turkey">{{cite book |last1=Fleet |first1=Kate |title=The Cambridge History of Turkey |last2=Faroqhi |first2=Suraiya N. |last3=Kasaba |first3=Reşat |date=2 November 2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-62095-6 |pages=412}}</ref>
* Mihriban Sultan (buried in Murad III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque)<ref name="ulucay"/> married in 1613;<ref name="pecevi"/>
* Hatice Sultan (1583 - 1648,{{rp|p=168}} buried in [[Şehzade Mosque]]<ref name="Turkey">{{cite book | author=Turkey. Kültür Bakanlığı | title=Dünden bugüne İstanbul ansiklopedisi | publisher=Kültür Bakanlığı | issue=v. 4 | year=1993 | isbn=978-975-7306-04-7 | page=20}}</ref>), was married in 1598 to [[Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha]] and had two sons and a daughter.<ref>Bayrak, 1998, p. 43.</ref> She participated in the reparation of the minarets of Bayezid Veli Mosque inside Kerch Fortress in 1599.<ref>Öztuna, 1977. Başlangıcından zamanımıza kadar Büyük Türkiye tarihi, p. 125.</ref> After widowed, in 1613 she married Gürşci Mehmed Pasha of Kefe, governor of Bosnia.<ref name="tezcan" /><ref name="Efendi"/><ref name="dumas"/>{{rp|p=168}}
*Fethiye Sultan (buried in Murad III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque).
* Beyhan Sultan (died {{floruit}} 1648<ref name="miovic">{{cite journal |last=Miović |first=Vesna |date=2018-05-02 |title=Per favore della Soltana: moćne osmanske žene i dubrovački diplomati |journal=Anali Zavoda za Povijesne Znanosti Hrvatske Akademije Znanosti i Umjetnosti u Dubrovniku |language=hr |volume=56 |issue=56/1 |pages=147–197 |doi=10.21857/mwo1vczp2y |issn=1330-0598 |doi-access=free}}</ref>), married in 1613 to Vizier Kurşuncuzade Mustafa Pasha;<ref name="tezcan" /><ref name="Efendi"/><ref name="dumas">{{cite book |first=Juliette |last=Dumas |title=Les perles de nacre du sultanat: Les princesses ottomanes (mi-XVe – mi-XVIIIe siècle)|year=2013 |page=464}}</ref><ref name=miovic/>{{rp|p=168}}
* Sehime Sultan,<ref name="Kahya">{{cite thesis | last=Kahya | first=Ozan | title=11 numaralı İstanbul Mahkemesi defteri (H.1073) : tahlil ve metin | date=2011 | url=https://acikerisim.msgsu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/20.500.14124/3808 | pages=219, 303–304}}</ref> married in 1613 to Topal Mehmed Pasha, formerly a Kapucıbaşı;<ref name="tezcan" /><ref name="Efendi"/><ref name="pecevi"/><ref name="dumas"/><ref name=miovic/>{{rp|p=168}}
* A daughter married to Davud Pasha;<ref name="pecevi">{{cite book|first1=Ibrahim|last1=Peçevi|first2=Bekir Sıtkı|last2=Baykal|title=Peçevi Tarih, Volume 2|year=1982|publisher=Başbakanlık Matbaası|pages=3}}</ref>
* A daughter married in 1613 to Kücük Mirahur Mehmed Agha;<ref name="tezcan" /><ref name="Efendi">{{cite book | last1=Efendi | first1=A. | last2=Yılmazer | first2=Z. | title=Topçular Katibi ʻAbdülkādir (Kadrı) Efendi Tarihi: metin ve tahlıl | publisher=Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi | series=Publications de la Société d'histoire turque | issue=v. 1 | year=2003 | isbn=978-975-16-1585-5 | url= https://www.scribd.com/document/378549786/1592-1644-Topcular-Katibi-Abdulkadir-Efendi-Tarihi | page=624}}</ref>
* A daughter married in 1613 to Mirahur-i Evvel Muslu Agha;<ref name="tezcan" /><ref name="Efendi"/>
* A daughter married in 1613 to Bostancıbaşı Hasan Agha;<ref name="tezcan" /><ref name="Efendi"/>
* A daughter married in 1613 to Cığalazade Mehmed Bey (son of [[Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha]] and [[Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan#Daughters|Safiye Hanimsultan]]);<ref name="tezcan" /><ref name="Efendi"/>
*Nineteen daughters, died of plague in 1598; 
* A daughter who died young on 29 July 1585.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Pazan | first=İbrahim | title=A Comparison of Seyyid Lokman's Records of the Birth, Death and Wedding Dates of Members of Ottoman Dynasty (1566-1595) with the Records in Ottoman Chronicles | journal=Marmara Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi | publisher=Marmara University | volume=10 | issue=1 | date=2023-06-06 | issn=2148-6743 | doi=10.16985/mtad.1120498 | pages=245–271| doi-access=free }}</ref>