Editing Murad II (section)

==Family==
===Consorts===
Murad II had at least six consorts:<ref>Franz Babinger, ''Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time'', (Princeton University Press, 1978), 14.</ref><ref>Necdet Sakaoğlu, ''Famous Ottoman Women'', (Avea, 2007), 40.</ref><ref>Murat Iyigun, ''War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God'', (University of Chicago Press, 2015), 119.</ref><ref>Peter F. Sugar, ''A History of East Central Europe: Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354–1804'', Vol. 5, (University of Washington Press, 1996), 16.</ref>
*[[Hatice Halime Hatun|Tacünnisa Hatice Halime Hatun]] ({{circa|1410}} – {{circa|1440}}), daughter of [[İsfendiyar Bey]], ruler of the [[Beylik of Candar]]. Also known as Alime Hatun or Sultan Hatun. She married Murad in 1425.
*[[Hüma Hatun]] (? – September 1449). Mother of Mehmed II. There are several theories as to her origin, according to differing accounts, she was either of Italian and/or Jewish,<ref>{{Cite book |author=Franz Babinger |title=Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-691-01078-6 |pages=11–12}}</ref> Slavic, most likely [[Serbs|Serb]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lowry |first=Heath W. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55896257 |title=The nature of the early Ottoman state |date=2003 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=1-4175-2407-3 |location=Albany |pages=153 |oclc=55896257}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Afyoncu |first=Erhan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BYNPAQAAIAAJ |title=Truva'nın intikamı: Fatih Sultan Mehmed ve İstanbul'un fethi'nin bilinmeyen yönleri |date=2009 |publisher=Yeditepe Yayınevi |isbn=978-605-4052-11-0 |pages=150 |language=tr}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Li Tang |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYaMuV3N5vUC&pg=PA308 |title=From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia |author2=Dietmar W. Winkler |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |year=2013 |isbn=978-3-643-90329-7 |page=308}}</ref> or [[Greeks|Greek]] origins.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Hollmann |first=Joshua |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/965535039 |title=The religious concordance : Nicholas of Cusa and Christian-Muslim dialogue |date=2017 |isbn=978-90-04-32677-4 |location=Leiden |pages=116 |oclc=965535039 |quote=Mehmed's maternal ancestry is shrouded in mystery. Franz Babinger notes that his mother was a 'slave', which ensures that she was not of Turkish origin, and that she probably was of Greek descent (Franz Babinger, Mehmed the Conqueror and his Time, edited by William C. Hickman and translated by Ralph Manheim, Bollingen Series xcvi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978), 12).}}</ref>
*[[Mara Branković|Mara Despina Hatun]] ({{circa}} 1420 – 14 September 1487), born Mara Branković, daughter of Despot of Serbia [[Đurađ Branković|Durad Branković]]. She married Murad in September 1435 and was his legal wife. She never converted to Islam and remained a Christian. In Europe she became known as the ''Sultanina'' or ''Sultana Maria''. Considered the "adoptive mother" of Mehmed II, who held her in very high regard and call her "mother" in official documents.
* Yeni Hatun, daughter of Şadgeldi Paşahzade Mustafa Bey of the [[Beyliks of Canik#Tacettinoğulları|Kutluşah]] of [[Amasya]].
* Hundi Ümmügülsüm Hatun (? – 14 February 1486). According to some sources, she was two distinct consorts.
* [[Hatice Halime Hatun#After her death|Hatice Hatun]], daughter of Taceddin Ibrahim II Bey, son of İsfendiyar Bey (brother of [[Hatice Halime Hatun]]) and his first wife.<ref>The second was [[Selçuk Hatun]], Murad II's half-sister.</ref> She married Murad following her aunt's death and was the mother of Şehzade Küçük Ahmed. After the death of Murad II her son was executed on the orders of Mehmed II. Mehmed subsequently forced her to marry [[Ishak Pasha]], with whom she had others eight children.

=== Sons ===
Murad II was the sultan who conferred on his sons and their male descendants the title of ''[[Şehzade]]'', meaning "''descendant of the Şah''", replacing the simple honorific of ''[[Çelebi#Title|Çelebi]]''. The title of Şehzade remained in use until the abolition of the Ottoman Empire.

Murad II had at least eight sons:

* Şehzade Ahmed (1419–1420), also known as ''Büyük'' Ahmed (Ahmed the Elder). Buried with his father.
* Şehzade Alaeddin Ali (1425 – June 1443) –  with Hundi Ümmügülsüm Hatun.<ref>According to sources which consider Hundi and Ümmügülsüm to be two distinct consorts, he was the son of Hundi Hatun.</ref> Murad's favorite son, he was [[Sanjak-bey|governor]] of [[Manisa]] and [[Amasya]]. In 1443 he took part in the expedition of [[Karaman]] and died on his way back from a fall from his horse. Buried with his father in [[Muradiye Complex]] of [[Bursa]]. He had a known consort, Yeni Hatun, and two sons: Şehzade Giyaşüddin (1441–1445) and Şehzade Taceddin (1442–1443).
* Şehzade Isfendiyâr (1425–1425) – with Halime Hatun
* Şehzade Hüseyn (? – 1439). Died young
* Şehzade Orhan (? – 1441). Died young
* [[Mehmed II]] (1432–1481) – with Hüma Hatun. Mehmed succeeded his father as [[List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire|Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]] and was to become known by the epithet ''Fâtih'' ("the Conqueror") following his successful [[Fall of Constantinople|conquest of Constantinople]] in 1453.
* Şehzade Hasan (? – 1444). Died young
* Şehzade Ahmed (May 1450 – 18 February 1451) – with Hatice Hatun. Also known as ''Küçük'' ''Ahmed'' (Ahmed the Younger). Killed on the orders of Mehmed II while his was mother congratulated Mehmed on his accession to the throne. Mehmed was to subsequently legalize this act with the promulgation of the "Law of Fratricide".

=== Daughters ===
Murad II had at least six daughters:

* Hundi Hatun (1423 – ?) – with Hundi Ümmügülsüm Hatun.<ref>According to sources which consider Hundi and Ümmügülsüm to be two distinct consorts, she was the daughter of Ümmügülsüm Hatun.</ref> Also known as Erhundi Hatun. She first married Mirahur İlyas Bey and later Yaqub Bey, royal tutor of [[Şehzade Cem]], son of Mehmed II. 
* Hatice Hatun (1425 – after 1470) – with Hüma Hatun.<ref name=":22">{{Cite book |last=Alderson |first=A. D. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8115229 |title=The structure of the Ottoman dynasty |date=1982 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=0-313-22522-2 |location=Westport, Conn. |page=xxvi  |oclc=8115229}}</ref> She married Candaroğlu İsmail Kemaleddin Bey and had three sons: Hasan Bey (who married his cousin Kamerhan Hatun, daughter of [[Mehmed II]], and had a daughter, Hanzade Hatun), Yahya Bey and Mahmud Bey. Her descendants were still alive during the reign of [[Abdulmejid I]] in the 19th century. In August 1470, she remarried with Isa Bey. When she died, she was buried with her father. 
* Hafsa Hatun (1426 – ?). She married her cousin Karamanoğlu Kaya Bey, son of her aunt Ilaldi Sultan Hatun, daughter of [[Mehmed I]], by her husband [[Ibrahim II of Karaman]]. They had a son, Karamanoğlu Kasim Bey.
* Fatma Hatun (1430 – after 1464) – with Hüma Hatun.<ref name=":22" /> She married [[Zaganos Pasha]] and had two sons: Hamza Bey and Ahmed Çelebi, who would become an important adviser to his cousin [[Bayezid II]]. After divorced in 1462, she married Mahmud Çelebi.
* Şahzade Selçuk Hatun (1430 – 21 October 1480). She was married twice, first to Güveyi Karaça Paşah (d. 1456) and then to Yusuf Sinaneddin Paşah (d. 1486). She was buried with her father, next to Şehzade Alaeddin Ali. 
* Ilaldi Hatun. She married Kasim Bey, of the ''[[İsfendiyaroğulları]]'' of Sinop.