An-Nasir Muhammad Ibn Qaitbay
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An-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qaitbay (; 1482 – 31 October 1498) was the son of
Qaitbay Sultan Abu Al-Nasr Sayf ad-Din Al-Ashraf Qaitbay (; 1416/14187 August 1496) was the eighteenth Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt from 872 to 901 A.H. (1468–1496 C.E.). He was Circassian by birth, and was purchased by the ninth sultan Barsbay ( ...
, and a
Mamluk Mamluk or Mamaluk (; (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural); translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave") were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-so ...
sultan Sultan (; ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be use ...
of
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from 7 August 1496 to 31 October 1498. His first wife was Gevhermelik Hatun, daughter of
Cem Sultan Cem Sultan (also spelled Djem or Jem) or Sultan Cem or Şehzade Cem (22 December 1459 – 25 February 1495, ; ; ; ), was a claimant to the Ottoman throne in the 15th century. Cem was the third son of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, Mehmed II and ...
and granddaughter of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror. He married Miṣirbāy (d. 1522), former Circassian slave concubine and then widow of Kurtbāy, Governor of Gaza; she later married his successor sultan Abu Sa'id Qansuh (r. 1498-1500), and finally in 1517 to Khā’ir Bek, the first Ottoman Governor of Egypt.Albrecht Fuess, “How to marry right: Searching for a royal spouse at the Mamluk court of Cairo in the fifteenth century”, DYNTRAN Working Papers, n° 21, online edition, February 2017, available at: http://dyntran.hypotheses.org/1761


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Burji sultans 15th-century Mamluk sultans 1482 births 1498 deaths {{Egypt-bio-stub