 Selim II broke with tradition by sending only his oldest son out of the palace to govern a province, assigning Murad to Manisa.Selim died in 1574 and was succeeded by Murad, who began his reign by having his five younger brothers strangled.His authority was undermined by harem influences – more specifically, those of his mother and later of his favorite wife Safiye Sultan, often to the detriment of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha's influence on the court.