Personal life
Wives
Fülane Hatun: Suleiman's first wife, and his real name is unknown. Mahmud's mother who was born in 1512. Records at that time but not a real name Fulani name comes as a tribute for ladies. Suleiman "Fulani" is defined as three mistress. One of them is his son Sultan Mahmud's mother, Fatima gave birth in 1514 and the other "Fulani" There is nicknamed haseki a favorite. Other "Fulani babe," he was born the same year as defined Sultan'la Mihrimah 1522 lady's mother's name is not listed today, and some sources record that the scene of the effective period of the past, but as the son of the Sultan for the Hürrem twin Hürrem Sultan Mihrimah's Prince Abdullah confirmed that another woman to have given his mother, his mother's lady.
Gülfem Babe: Suleiman, the opinions of Hürrem in the direction of the Sultan is the next or previous haseki, the concubine wife of origin. Gülfem Hatun who died in 1561 or 1562, a baby who was born in 1521 and that same year his son Murad, who died October 12th 1521 is believed that she was the mother.
Mahidevran Sultan (in some sources as the name goes Gulbahar): born around the year 1500 and the current origin Mahidevran Sultan Mustafa brought to the world in 1515. Mustafa Suleiman followed by the October 6 1553. in Bursa also began to live. She died on February 3rd 1581, in Bursa.
Hürrem Sultan: Starboard lordship or estimated 1520's accession to the throne after the entry into harem concubine origin Hürrem, 1521, Mehmed, 1522 Mihrimah'ı, 1524 Selim, Bayezid 1525, 1531 in the Cihangir district, brought to the world. She died on April 15 in 1558.
Relationship with Hürrem Sultan
Suleiman was infatuated with Hürrem Sultan, a harem girl from Ruthenia, then part of Poland. In the West foreign diplomats, taking notice of the palace gossip about her, called her "Russelazie" or "Roxelana", referring to her Ruthenian (Ukrainian) origins. The daughter of an Orthodox priest,[29] she was captured by Tatars from Crimea, sold as a slave in Constantinople, and eventually rose through the ranks of the Harem to become Suleiman's favourite. Breaking with two centuries of Ottoman tradition,[29] a former concubine had thus become the legal wife of the Sultan, much to the astonishment of observers in the palace and the city. He also allowed Hürrem Sultan to remain with him at court for the rest of her life, breaking another tradition—that when imperial heirs came of age, they would be sent along with the imperial concubine who bore them to govern remote provinces of the Empire, never to return unless their progeny succeeded to the throne.
Under his pen name, Muhibbi, Suleiman composed this poem for Roxelana:
"Throne of my lonely niche, my wealth, my love, my moonlight. My most sincere friend, my confidant, my very existence, my Sultan, my one and only love. The most beautiful among the beautiful... My springtime, my merry faced love, my daytime, my sweetheart, laughing leaf... My plants, my sweet, my rose, the one only who does not distress me in this world... My Constantinople, my Caraman, the earth of my Anatolia My Badakhshan, my Baghdad and Khorasan My woman of the beautiful hair, my love of the slanted brow, my love of eyes full of mischief... I'll sing your praises always I, lover of the tormented heart, Muhibbi of the eyes full of tears, I am happy."[58]