Editing Murad II (section)

===Consorts===
Murad II had at least six consorts:<ref>Franz Babinger, ''Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time'', (Princeton University Press, 1978), 14.</ref><ref>Necdet Sakaoğlu, ''Famous Ottoman Women'', (Avea, 2007), 40.</ref><ref>Murat Iyigun, ''War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God'', (University of Chicago Press, 2015), 119.</ref><ref>Peter F. Sugar, ''A History of East Central Europe: Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354–1804'', Vol. 5, (University of Washington Press, 1996), 16.</ref>
*[[Hatice Halime Hatun|Tacünnisa Hatice Halime Hatun]] ({{circa|1410}} – {{circa|1440}}), daughter of [[İsfendiyar Bey]], ruler of the [[Beylik of Candar]]. Also known as Alime Hatun or Sultan Hatun. She married Murad in 1425.
*[[Hüma Hatun]] (? – September 1449). Mother of Mehmed II. There are several theories as to her origin, according to differing accounts, she was either of Italian and/or Jewish,<ref>{{Cite book |author=Franz Babinger |title=Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-691-01078-6 |pages=11–12}}</ref> Slavic, most likely [[Serbs|Serb]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lowry |first=Heath W. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55896257 |title=The nature of the early Ottoman state |date=2003 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=1-4175-2407-3 |location=Albany |pages=153 |oclc=55896257}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Afyoncu |first=Erhan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BYNPAQAAIAAJ |title=Truva'nın intikamı: Fatih Sultan Mehmed ve İstanbul'un fethi'nin bilinmeyen yönleri |date=2009 |publisher=Yeditepe Yayınevi |isbn=978-605-4052-11-0 |pages=150 |language=tr}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Li Tang |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYaMuV3N5vUC&pg=PA308 |title=From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia |author2=Dietmar W. Winkler |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |year=2013 |isbn=978-3-643-90329-7 |page=308}}</ref> or [[Greeks|Greek]] origins.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Hollmann |first=Joshua |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/965535039 |title=The religious concordance : Nicholas of Cusa and Christian-Muslim dialogue |date=2017 |isbn=978-90-04-32677-4 |location=Leiden |pages=116 |oclc=965535039 |quote=Mehmed's maternal ancestry is shrouded in mystery. Franz Babinger notes that his mother was a 'slave', which ensures that she was not of Turkish origin, and that she probably was of Greek descent (Franz Babinger, Mehmed the Conqueror and his Time, edited by William C. Hickman and translated by Ralph Manheim, Bollingen Series xcvi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978), 12).}}</ref>
*[[Mara Branković|Mara Despina Hatun]] ({{circa}} 1420 – 14 September 1487), born Mara Branković, daughter of Despot of Serbia [[Đurađ Branković|Durad Branković]]. She married Murad in September 1435 and was his legal wife. She never converted to Islam and remained a Christian. In Europe she became known as the ''Sultanina'' or ''Sultana Maria''. Considered the "adoptive mother" of Mehmed II, who held her in very high regard and call her "mother" in official documents.
* Yeni Hatun, daughter of Şadgeldi Paşahzade Mustafa Bey of the [[Beyliks of Canik#Tacettinoğulları|Kutluşah]] of [[Amasya]].
* Hundi Ümmügülsüm Hatun (? – 14 February 1486). According to some sources, she was two distinct consorts.
* [[Hatice Halime Hatun#After her death|Hatice Hatun]], daughter of Taceddin Ibrahim II Bey, son of İsfendiyar Bey (brother of [[Hatice Halime Hatun]]) and his first wife.<ref>The second was [[Selçuk Hatun]], Murad II's half-sister.</ref> She married Murad following her aunt's death and was the mother of Şehzade Küçük Ahmed. After the death of Murad II her son was executed on the orders of Mehmed II. Mehmed subsequently forced her to marry [[Ishak Pasha]], with whom she had others eight children.