An-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qaitbay

An-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qaitbay (Arabic: الناصر ناصر الدين محمد بن قايتباي; 1482 – 31 October 1498) was the son of Qaitbay, and a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 7 August 1496 to 31 October 1498.

An-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qaitbay
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Reign7 August 1496 – 31 October 1498
PredecessorQaitbay
SuccessorAbu Sa'id Qansuh
Born1482
Died31 October 1498(1498-10-31) (aged 15–16)
Spouse
FatherQaitbay
MotherKhawand Aṣalbāy

His first wife was Gevhermelik Hatun,[2] daughter of Cem Sultan and granddaughter of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror.[3][4]

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.[5]

References

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  1. ^ D'hulster, Kristof; Steenbergen, Jo Van. "Family Matters: The Family-In-Law Impulse in Mamluk Marriage Policy". Annales Islamologiques. 47: 61–82. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  2. ^ Called also Gevhermülük Hatun, Gevhermelik Sultan or Gevhermülük Sultan.
  3. ^ Margoliouth, David Samuel (1911). "Egypt/3 History" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 80–130, see page 103. ...After a reign of little more than two years, filled mainly with struggles between rival amirs, Malik al-Nāṣir was murdered (October 31st, 1498)
  4. ^ Eduard von Zambaur (1980). معجم الأنساب والأسرات الحاكمة في التاريخ الإسلامي للمستشرق زامباور (in Arabic). Beirut: IslamKotob. p. 164.
  5. ^ 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
Regnal titles
Preceded by Mamluk Sultan of Egypt
7 August 1496–31 October 1498
Succeeded by