Alamshah Halima Begum (1460–1522) (
Azerbaijani: عالمشاه حلیمه بیگم) was a
Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu
The Aq Qoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans (, ; ) was a culturally Persianate society, Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two trib ...
princess. She was the daughter of
Uzun Hasan
Uzun Hasan or Uzun Hassan (; February or March 1425 – January 6, 1478) was a ruler of the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler. Hasan ruled between 1452 and 1478 and presided ove ...
and
Teodora Despina Khatun, and the mother of
Ismail I
Ismail I (; 17 July 1487 – 23 May 1524) was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524. His reign is one of the most vital in the history of Iran, and the Safavid period is often considered the beginn ...
.
Name
There are different opinions about her real name. It may have been Halima, Halime, Alamshah, Alemshah, Alamşah, Alemşah, or Martha.
Life
Her father was the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Uzun Hasan and her mother was the daughter of
John IV of Trebizond, Theodora Megale Komnene, also known as "
Despina Hatun".
[Michel Kuršanskis]
"La descendance d'Alexis IV, empereur de Trébizonde. Contribution à la prosopographie des Grands Comnènes"
''Revue des études byzantines'', 37 (1979), pp. 239-247 There is no reliable information about the first years of her life. In 1471 she married
Shaykh Haydar, the son of her aunt Khadija Khatun (her father's sister) and the sheikh of the Safavid Order. They had three sons,
Ali Mirza Safavi, Ibrahim and
Ismail I
Ismail I (; 17 July 1487 – 23 May 1524) was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524. His reign is one of the most vital in the history of Iran, and the Safavid period is often considered the beginn ...
and four daughters.
Issue
By her husband, she had three sons and four daughters:
*
Ismail I
Ismail I (; 17 July 1487 – 23 May 1524) was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524. His reign is one of the most vital in the history of Iran, and the Safavid period is often considered the beginn ...
(1487 - 1524). First Shah of Safavid dynasty.
*
Ali Mirza Safavi (d. 1494). He was the penultimate head of the Safavid order.
* Shaykh Ibrahim.
* Fakhr Jahan Khanum. She married Bayram Beg Qaramanlu.
* Melek Khanum. She married Abdallah Khan Shamlu.
* A daughter who married
Husayn Beg Shamlu.
* A daughter who married Shah Ali Beg.
References
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1522 deaths
1460 births
People under the Aq Qoyunlu
People of Byzantine descent
Safavid dynasty
16th-century Iranian women
16th-century Iranian people