What did the wife of the 15th Mughal Emperor serve as?
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Qudsia Begum Qudsia Begum (died 1765), was a wife of Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah and mother of emperor Ahmad Shah Bahadur. She was an administrator and served as de facto regent of India from 1748 to 1754.
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Ahmad Shah Bahadur Ahmad Shah Bahadur, Mirza Ahmad Shah, Mujahid-ud-Din Ahmad Shah Ghazi (23 December 1725 – 1 January 1775) was born to Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah. He succeeded his father to the throne as the 15th Mughal Emperor in 1748 at the age of 22. When Ahmed Shah Bahadur came to power the rule of the Mughal Empire was collapsing, furthermore his administrative weaknesses eventually led to the rise of the usurping Feroze Jung III.
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Daulat Sultan Khanum Daultan Sultan Khanum was a princess of the Chagatai Khanate as a daughter of Yunus Khan, the Great Khan of Moghulistan and his second wife Shah Begum. She was also the step aunt of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire of India as well as its first Emperor.
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Imtiaz Mahal Imtiaz Mahal (Persian: امتیاز محل‎ ‎ ; meaning "distinguished one of the palace") better known by her birth name Lal Kunwar (Hindi: लाल कुंवर ) was the Empress of the Mughal Empire as the wife of Mughal Emperor Jahandar Shah. She was a former dancing girl who exercised supreme influence over the Emperor, encouraged frivolity and pleasure which eventually led to his ignominious downfall.
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Sultan Cem Sultan Cem or Cem Sultan (December 22, 1459 – February 25, 1495) (] ; Ottoman Turkish: جم‎ ; Turkish: "Cem Sultan" ), also referred to as "Jem Sultan", or "Zizim" by the French, was a pretender to the Ottoman throne in the 15th century.
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Sahiba Mahal Malika-i-Jahan Begum (died in around 1793) also known as Sahiba Mahal was a queen of Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah.
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Dilras Banu Begum Dilras Banu Begum (Persian: دلرس‌ بانو بیگم‎ ‎ , Urdu: دلرس بانو بیگم‎ ) ( 1622 – 8 October 1657) was the first wife and chief consort of Emperor Aurangzeb, the last of the great Mughal emperors. She is also known by her posthumous title, Rabia-ud-Daurani ("Rabia of the Age"). The Bibi Ka Maqbara in Aurangabad, which bears a striking resemblance to the famous Taj Mahal (the mausoleum of Aurangzeb's mother Mumtaz Mahal), was commissioned by her husband to act as her final resting place.
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Grand Mughal Grand Mughal or Mogul, also "Great Mughal", is a title coined by Europeans for the ruler of the Mughal Empire of India. It is especially associated with the third in the line, Akbar the Great (1542-1605). The Mughals themselves used the title "Padishah".
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Gülbahar Hatun (wife of Bayezid II) Gülbahar Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: کل بهار خاتون‎ ; 1453 – 1505), also known as Ayşe Hatun. was a consort of Sultan Bayezid II and the mother of Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire.
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Dara Shukoh Dara Shukoh, also known as Dara Shikoh (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659 Julian/9 September 1659 Gregorian) was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the fifth Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. His name ″دارا شكوه ″ in Persian means "as magnificent as Dara, a diminutive of Darius". He was favoured as a successor by his father, Shah Jahan, and his elder sister, Princess Jahanara Begum, but was defeated and later killed by his younger brother, Prince Muhiuddin (later, the Emperor Aurangzeb), in a bitter struggle for the imperial throne.
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Zainabadi Mahal Zainabadi Mahal (Persian: زين آباد محل‎ ‎ ; died 1654; meaning "Lady from Zainabad") also known as Hira Bai, was a young Christian slave-girl in the keeping of Mir Khalil, who had married a sister of Aurangzeb's mother. She was a favourite concubine of Aurangzeb. Her sweet voice and unparalleled beauty and charmed Aurangzeb to a very great extant. Her early death ended this love story soon.
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Nazikeda Kadın (wife of Mehmed VI) Nazikeda Kadın (9 October 1866 – 4 April 1941; Ottoman Turkish: نازك ادا قادين‎ ) was a consort of Sultan Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire.
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Mirza Shah Abbas Shahzada Mirza Shah Abbas Bahadur (1845 – 25 December 1910) was a prince of the Mughal Empire as the son of Emperor Bahadur Shah II, the last Emperor of India, through his wife Mubarrak-un-Nissa Khanum Begum.
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Wazir Khan Wazir Khan was a title bestowed by Mughal emperors.
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Tardi Beg Tardi Beg was a military commander in the 16th century in Mughal India. He served under the Mughal Emperors Humayun and Akbar.
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Taj ul-Alam Sulṭāna Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah (1612 – 23 October 1675; born Putri Sri Alam) was the fourteenth ruler of Aceh. She was the daughter of the sultan Iskandar Muda and the wife of his successor, Iskandar Thani. She became sulṭāna upon the death of her husband and ruled from 1641 to 1675, being the first of four women to hold the position in succession.
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Mumtaz Mahal (disambiguation) Mumtaz Mahal was the wife of Shah Jahan, an emperor of the Mughal Empire
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Ayesha Begum Ayesha Begum (عایشه بيگم, before 1490- after 1512) was a Giray princess, the daughter of Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate. She was the wife of Ottoman prince Şehzade Mehmed "(d. 1476)," the son of Sultan Bayezid II and Bayezid II's Ninth wife Ferahşad Hatun the daughter of Muhammad, Governor of Kafa.
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Joséphine de Beauharnais Joséphine de Beauharnais (] ; "née" Tascher de la Pagerie; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Napoleon I, and thus the first Empress of the French (commonly called Empress Joséphine or just Joséphine).
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Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal Maria of Aragon (29 June 1482 – 7 March 1517) was a Spanish infanta and the second wife of Portuguese King Manuel I, thus queen consort of Portugal from her marriage on 30 October 1500 until her death.
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Mirza Ghazi Beg Mirza Ghazi Beg Tarkhan (Persian: میرزا غازى بیگ ترخان‎ ‎ ) of Tarkhan Dynasty in Sindh ruled from the capital city of Thatta. He was the most powerful Mughal governor who administered Sindh, during whose rule the region had become fiercely loyal to the Mughals. In Sindh a network of small and large forts manned by cavalry and musketeers further extended Mughal power during the reign of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. He was a descendant of the powerful Mirza clan which had arrived in the region with the Mughal Emperor "Mirza" Babur Beg who had conquered South Asia in 1526. Mirza Ghazi Beg spoke nearly three languages which include Sindhi (his native-tongue), Persian (the official language of the Mughal Empire) and some Turkic.
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Jagmal Singh Jagmal Singh was a sixteenth century Indian court figure.