Hüma Hatun

Hüma Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: هما خاتون, "bird of paradise/phoenix" c. 1410 – September 1449) was a concubine of Ottoman Sultan Murad II and the mother of Mehmed II.

[9] According to the tradition, she was of Italian and/or Jewish origin and her previous name may have been Stella or Esther.

In that same year, Murad II abdicated the throne due to depression over the death of his son, Şehzade Alaeddin Ali Çelebi, and retreated to Manisa.

However, Mehmed succeeded the throne in 1451, after the death of his father, but she never became a Valide Hatun as she died before the accession.

[15] She died in September 1449 in Bursa, two years before her son's second accession to the throne.