13th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 to 1603
Mehmed III
Ottoman Caliph Amir al-Mu'minin Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Padishah)
Reign
16 January 1595 – 22 December 1603
Predecessor
Murad III
Successor
Ahmed I
Born
26 May 1566 (1566-05-26) Manisa Palace, Manisa, Ottoman Empire
Died
22 December 1603(1603-12-22) (aged 37) Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Consorts
Handan Hatun Halime Hatun Fülane Hatun
Issue Among others
Şehzade Mahmud Ahmed I Mustafa I
Names
Mehmed bin Murad
Dynasty
Ottoman
Father
Murad III
Mother
Safiye Sultan
Religion
Sunni Islam
Tughra
Mehmed III (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثالث, Meḥmed-i sālis; Turkish: III. Mehmed; 26 May 1566 – 22 December 1603) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death in 1603. Mehmed was known for ordering the execution of his brothers and leading the army in the Long Turkish War, during which the Ottoman army was victorious at the decisive Battle of Keresztes. This victory was however undermined by some military losses such as in Gyor and Nikopol. He also ordered the successful quelling of the Jelali rebellions. The sultan also communicated with the court of Elizabeth I on the grounds of stronger commercial relations and in the hopes of England to ally with the Ottomans against the Spanish.
died when Mehmed was eight, and Mehmed's father, Murad III, became sultan in 1574. Murad died in 1595, when Mehmed was 28 years old. Mehmed spent most...
Mehmed Pasha's influence on the court. Selim's power had only been maintained by the effective leadership of the powerful Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed...
Tatar: IIIMehmed Geray, ٣محمد كراى). His grandfather, khan Mehmed II Giray the fat, was one of the many sons of Devlet I Giray. In 1584 Mehmed II was...
Mehmed IV (Ottoman Turkish: محمد رابع, romanized: Meḥmed-i rābi; Turkish: IV. Mehmed; 2 January 1642 – 6 January 1693), also known as Mehmed the Hunter...
Mehmed II (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى, romanized: Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; Turkish: II. Mehmed, pronounced [icinˈdʒi ˈmehmet]; 30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481), commonly...
MehmedIII. Mehmed ordered the execution of his nineteen half brothers. Ahmed's elder brother Şehzade Mahmud was also executed by his father Mehmed on...
and aunt of Sultan MehmedIII. Mehmed Pasha was a surgeon ("cerrah") and had circumcised Prince Mehmed in 1582. In 1583, when Mehmed was appointed the...
Ahmed III (Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث, Aḥmed-i sālis; 30 December 1673 – 1 July 1736) was sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of sultan Mehmed IV (r...
Mehmed I (c. 1386 – 26 May 1421), also known as Mehmed Çelebi (Ottoman Turkish: چلبی محمد, "the noble-born") or Kirişçi (Greek: Κυριτζής, romanized: Kyritzis...
سلطان, "the gentle one" or "the patient one") was a consort of Sultan MehmedIII, and the mother of Sultan Mustafa I. The first woman to be Valide Sultan...
Mehmed V Reşâd (Ottoman Turkish: محمد خامس, romanized: Meḥmed-i ḫâmis; Turkish: V. Mehmed or Mehmed Reşad; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) was the penultimate...
Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Ottoman Turkish: محمد سادس Meḥmed-i sâdis or وحيد الدين Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn; Turkish: VI. Mehmed or Vahdeddin/Vahideddin; 14 January 1861...
to abdicate the throne peacefully to his son, Mehmed II, in 1444. During the eventual reign of Mehmed II (1451–1481), fratricide was legalized as an...
princes Süleyman, Mehmed, and Bayezid. In 1730, after the Patrona Halil revolt, led to the deposition of his father Sultan Ahmed III, and the succession...
reign, Osman lost his mother Şehsuvar Sultan, afterward, the oldest prince Mehmed, died of illness on 22 December 1756. According to various sources, the...
1606 Mehmed Agha was finally named chief imperial architect to the Ottoman court, succeeding Dalgıç Ahmet Ağa, builder of the large tomb of MehmedIII in...
Lala Mehmed Pasha (died 28 November 1595) was an Ottoman military commander and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire under the reign of MehmedIII. Born...
continuity. In 1540, the sultan took him and Mehmed with him to spend the winter in Edirne. In June 1541, he and Mehmed once again accompanied their father on...
Mehmed and Shahin had now made a dangerous enemy. Khan Temir offered his services to the Ottomans. In 1628 the Ottomans again tried to remove Mehmed,...
Şehzade Mehmed Orhan Efendi (Ottoman Turkish: محمد اور خان; also Mehmed Orhan Osmanoğlu; 12 October 1909 – 12 March 1994) was an Ottoman prince and the...
vizier by Sultan Murad III. Sinan was, however, disgraced and exiled in the following year, owing to the defeat of his lieutenant Mehmed Pasha, at Gori during...