Soltan Ebrahim Mirza Safavid prince - Gov of Mashhad 1556

public profile

Is your surname Safavid prince - Gov of Mashhad 1556?

Research the Safavid prince - Gov of Mashhad 1556 family

Soltan Ebrahim Mirza Safavid prince - Gov of Mashhad 1556's Geni Profile

Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love

  • Build your family tree online
  • Share photos and videos
  • Smart Matching™ technology
  • Free!

Soltan Ebrahim Mirza Safavid prince - Gov of Mashhad 1556 (Saffavi)

Birthdate:
Death: 1577 (36-37) (Murdered along with other Safavid princes on order of his cousin Shah Ismail II Safavi)
Immediate Family:

Son of Abu'l Fat'h Sultan Moez od-din Bahram Mirza Safavi Gov. Khorasan, Guilan and Hamadan and Private
Husband of Princess Shahzadeh Alamiyan Gowhar Soltan Beygom Safavi
Brother of Private; Private and Badi-al Zaman Mirza Safavid prince

Managed by: Private User
Last Updated:
view all

Immediate Family

About Soltan Ebrahim Mirza Safavid prince - Gov of Mashhad 1556

Could this be Djahan Ibrahim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Mirza http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ebrahim-mirza Prince Ibrahim Mirza, Solṭān Ebrāhīm Mīrzā, in full Abu'l Fat'h Sultan Ibrahim Mirza (Persian: ابوالفتح سلطان ابراهیم میرزا‎‎) (April 1540 – 23 February 1577) was a Persian prince of the Safavid dynasty, who was a favourite of his uncle and father-in-law Shah Tahmasp I. He is now mainly remembered as a patron of the arts, especially the Persian miniature. Although most of his library and art collection was apparently destroyed by his wife after his murder, surviving works commissioned by him include the manuscript of the Haft Awrang of the poet Jami which is now in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington D.C

He was a grandson of the founder of the Safavid dynasty, Ismail I (1487–1524) by Ismail's fourth son, Prince Shahzadeh ‘Abu'l Fat'h Sultan Moez od-din Bahram Mirza (1518–50), who was Governor of Khorasan 1529–32, Gilan 1536–37 and Hamadan 1546–49, and also a commissioner of manuscripts. Two of his uncles and two of his brothers were to rebel against Tahmasp, but Ibrahim Mirza, who grew up at court, was for long time a favourite, and was appointed Governor of Mashad at the age of sixteen, arriving there in March 1556.[2] The appointment had a nominal element — Tahmasp himself had received his first governorship at the age of four — but was also political, connected to Ibrahim Mirza's mother, who came from the Shirvanshah dynasty.[3]

In 1560 he married Tahmasp's eldest daughter Princess Shahzadeh Alamiyan Gowhar Soltan Beygom (1540 – May 19, 1577); they had one daughter, Gowhar Shad Begum (1561 – after 1582). Around the end of 1562 he was travelling to Ardabil to take up the governorship there, when he was reported to the shah for his reaction to a joke that angered the shah, and the appointment was switched to the much less important governorship of Qa'en in Khorasan.[4] However, in 1564–65 he had to suppress a major tribal revolt of the Takkalu, who used a slave army numbering 10,000.[5]

After a few years the shah's anger had subsided, and Ibrahim Mirza was re-appointed to Mashad by 1565–66, although he was removed again "within a year or two, apparently for his failure to assist in rescuing the shah’s besieged son Solṭān Moḥammad Mīrzā".[6] He was sent to govern Sabzavār until 1574 when, by now 34, he was recalled to the capital at Qazvin to serve as grand master of ceremonies (ešīk-āqāsī-bāšī). When Tahmasp died two years later, he was involved in the struggles at court over the succession, finally supporting the successful Ismail II, who appointed him keeper of the royal seal (mohrdār). However, in less than a year he was killed in Qazvin, along with several other princes, in a general clear-out of potential rivals ordered by Ismail Shah Ismail II Safavi r. 1576-1577 (34c) .[7] The new shah, who may have been mentally unstable after spending twenty years in prison, had soon alienated the Qizilbash who were powerful at court, and it seems they had begun to look to Ibrahim Mirza as a possible replacement; the shah himself died, supposedly after consuming poisoned opium, nine months later.

view all

Soltan Ebrahim Mirza Safavid prince - Gov of Mashhad 1556's Timeline