Şehzade Murad (son of Cem Sultan)

Şehzade Murad, later Pierre Mehmed, prince of Sayd, was an Ottoman prince, son of Cem Sultan. Little is known about his early life. After their exile, Murad stayed in Cairo and later escaped to Rhodes, because he feared that the Mamluks would surrender him to Bayezid II, who executed his brother Oguzhan. Marino Sanuto says that on 5 December 1516, an ambassador of the Mamluk sultan came to Rhodes to demand the surrender of Murad, but the knights refused outright. Murad was given the Chateau de Fondo as his residence and showed gratitude by converting to Roman Catholicism, changing his name to Pierre. Pope Alexander VI created the Principate de Sayd in 1492 as a papal fief for him. Later, he married an Italian woman named Maria Concetta Doria, who had seven children from him, four sons and three daughters, whose names are unknown. Little Cem was baptized and took the name Niccolo. When Suleiman the Magnificent conquered Rhodes in 1522, he insisted that Murad to be handed over him, whereupon he had the prince executed.[3]

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Murad, the title is Şehzade, and there is no family name.
Murad
Şehzade of the Ottoman dynasty
Viscount of Principate de Sayd
DiedDecember 1522[1]
Rhodes, Ottoman Empire
SpouseMaria Concetta Doria
IssueTwo sons[2]
Pietro Ohsin[2]
Niccolò Cem
Unnamed two[1] or three daughters[3]
DynastyOttoman
FatherCem Sultan
ReligionSunni Islam (previously)
Roman Catholicism (later)

References
  1. Thuasne, Louis (1892). Djem, Sultan, fils de Mohammed II, frère de Bayezid II, (1459–1495) d'après les documents originaux en grande partie inédits: Etude sur la question d'orient à la fin du XVe siècle. Leroux. pp. 388–9.
  2. Caron, Maurice (2010). "4th part". Djem un prince dans la tourmente (in French). Impr. Corlet numérique). Villeurbanne: Les Éd. du Zeugma. Part IV, 5. ISBN 978-2-9534413-3-8. OCLC 758546639.
  3. Freely, John (2004). Jem Sultan: the adventures of a captive Turkish prince in Renaissance Europe. p. 312.
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