Alemshah Beyim (1460-1522) was an
Aq Qoyunlu
The Aq Qoyunlu ( az, Ağqoyunlular , ) was a culturally Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two tribal confederations: Akkoyunlu (W ...
princess. She was the daughter of
Uzun Hasan
Uzun Hasan or Uzun Hassan ( اوزون حسن; fa, اوزون حسن; 1423 – January 6, 1478; where ''uzun'' means "tall" in Oghuz Turkic) was a ruler of the Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler. H ...
and
Despina Khatun, and the mother of
Shah Ismayil.
Name
There are different opinions about her real name. It may have been Halima Bey Aga, Alemshah Bey, 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 Sheikh Haydar, the son of her aunt and the sheikh of the Safavid Order. They had three sons,
Ali Mirza Safavi, Ibrahim and
Ismail I
Ismail I ( fa, اسماعیل, Esmāʿīl, ; July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), also known as Shah Ismail (), was the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Iran, ruling as its King of Kings ('' Shahanshah'') from 1501 to 1524. His reign is ofte ...
and three daughters.
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1522 deaths
1460 births
People of the Aq Qoyunlu
People of Byzantine descent
Safavid dynasty
16th-century Iranian women