Aisha Sultan Begum

Aisha Sultan Begum
Timurid princess
Queen consort of the Ferghana Valley
Queen consort of the Samarkand
Zan-i-Kalan
Spouse
(m. 1499; div. 1503)
IssueFakhr-un-Nissa
HouseTimurid (by birth)
FatherSultan Ahmed Mirza
MotherQutaq Begum
ReligionIslam

Aisha Sultan Begum (Persian: عائشه سلطان بیگم) was Queen consort of Ferghana Valley and Samarkand as the first wife of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal emperor.

Aisha was a first cousin of her husband and was a Timurid princess by birth. She was the daughter of Babur's paternal uncle, Sultan Ahmed Mirza, the King of Samarkand and Bukhara.[1]

  1. ^ Erskine, William (1854). A History of India Under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Báber and Humáyun. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 128.