Shah-Begi Khanum Tajlu Khanum Safavi

Issue Tahmasp I

Bahram Mirza Safavi

Parikhan Khanum

Mahinbanu Khanum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajlu_Khanum

The Mawṣellu,(Qizilbash- the Qizilbash were all migrants from Syria and Anatolia) were a smaller tribe and offshoot of the Āq Qoyunlu. Their leaders were governors of Baghdad. [...these semi nomadic warriors of Turkish ethnic origin did not claim a common descent. They retained their individual clan affiliation, and the different clans continued to be one another’s bitter rivals. The most important Qezelbāš clans supporting the Safavid cause were the Šāmlu, the Ostājlu, the Tekellu, Rumlu, and Ḏu’l-Qadr ,all of them migrants from Syria and Anatolia. Each clan migrated to a different part of Persia, with their leaders appointed as governor of the area once the Safavids conquered it. Thus the Ostājlu were located in Azerbaijan and in part in Erāq-eʿAjam and Kermān; the Qarāmānlu hailed from Širvān;the Šāmlu resided in Khorasan; the Tekellu held Isfahan, Hamadan, and parts of Erāq-e Ajam; Fārs was in the hands of the Ḏu’l-Qadr, the Afšār dominated in Kuhgiluya and Khuzestan (Ḵuzestān), and Baghdad rested under the Mawṣellu, a smaller tribe and offshoot of the Āq Qoyunlu ref: Safavid Dynasty Encyclopedia - Rudolph (Rudi) Matthee.

Shah Begi Khanum Tajlu Khanum Safawi (geb. Mawsillu)

[...Tahmasp's mother was a Mawsillu and his principal wife, whom he likely married right around Ismail's death, was the Mawsillu Sultanum Bekum (d. 1593-4)...She gave Tahmasp 2 sons, including Mohammad Khodabanda who was born in 1532, during the early years of the Shamlu-Ustajlu regency, when Tahmasp himself was only eighteen years old and Ismail II, born in 1537...] ref page 29 of Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire By Andrew J Newman

Amir Beg Mawsillu (her father? her brother?) was Shah Ismail's Royal Sceal keeper in 1507. ref: https://archive.org/stream/HistoryOfShahIsmailSafawi-GhulamSarwar/1... page 52

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To prevent desertion, Shah Ismail allowed his soldiers to take their wives and children to the battle ground of Chalderan. At the end of the battle, his wife Tajlu Khanum was taken captive and forced to marry Taghi Zadeh Jafar Celebi. ( ref: page 91 https://www.academia.edu/4460261/Depicting_the_Other_Qizilbash_Imag...)

Tajlu Khanum (Persian: تاجلو خانم‎), also known by her title of Shah-Begi Khanum (شاه بگی خانم), was a Turcoman princess from the Mawsillu tribe and principal consort of Ismail I.

Family
While Italian writer Angiolello and Iranian historian Manuchihr Parsaʹdust agree that she was a granddaughter of the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Yaqub (r. 1478–1490) via a daughter, John Woods proposed his paternal lineage as Mihmad beg being his father, while Amir Hamza being his grandfather.[1] Jean Aubin on the other hand, proposed Bakr beg Mawsillu as her maternal grandfather.[2] She also had a sister named Beksi Khanum.[3]

Marriage According to Angiolello and Ramusio, the Safavid shah Ismail I (r. 1501–1524) married Tajlu Khanum after defeating the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Murad ibn Ya'qub in 1503, but according to the Safavid-period historians such as Budaq Monshi Qazvini, she was the wife of the Afrasiyabid ruler Kiya Husayn II, who had during the dissolution of the Aq Qoyunlu confederation expanded his rule from western Mazandaran into parts of Persian Iraq. Ismail I invaded the latters territories and put an end to his rule in 1504, where he afterwards took Tajlu Khanum into his harem. She thereafter become Ismail's most beloved wife, and bore him Tahmasp Mirza and Bahram Mirza Safavi.

Her supposed capture at Battle of Chaldiran was a major source of controversy among historians of Iran and Ottoman Empire.[4] While Ottoman sources wrote that she was captured during battle and even conversed with Selim I, according to Safavid sources she was lost but found by Mirza Shah Hossein, who because of this rose to the rank of wakil in Safavid court.[5] According to Roger Savory, it was Behruza Khanum, another wife of Ismail I who was captured and apparently later remarried.

Tajlu financed shrine of Fatima al-Masuma in Qom in 1519, supported Tahmasp Mirza's elevation to throne in 1524. But was banished to Shiraz in 1540 because of treason by his son. She later died and buried in Bibi Dokhtaran mausoleum.

[... It was probably around this period that Kiya Husayn II married the Aq Qoyunlu princess Tajlu Khanum.

He later became the enemy of the Safavid shah Ismail I (r. 1501-1524), whom he may have seen as a rival for the command over the Shi'ites in Iran. In 1504, Kiya Husayn II's territories was invaded by Ismail I, who seized the strongholds of Gol-e Khan and Firuzkuh, and surrounded Kiya Husayn II in Osta, who was shortly captured. However, the latter commited suicide—his body was burned at Isfahan in front its inhabitants, whilst his followers in Mazandaran were slaughtered.[1] Ismail I took Tajlu Khanum into his harem, where she became his favorite wife.]