Mesih Pasha

Mesih
Mesih Pasha in a miniature depicting the Siege of Rhodes
21st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
In office
1499–1501
MonarchBayezid II
Preceded byİbrahim Pasha
Succeeded byHadım Ali Pasha
Personal details
Born1443
DiedNovember 1501 (aged 58)
RelationsConstantine XI Palaiologos (uncle, uncertain), Hass Murad Pasha (brother)
FamilyPalaiologos dynasty
Military service
AllegianceOttoman Empire
Years of service1470–1501
Battles/warsSiege of Negroponte, Siege of Rhodes (1480), Moldavian Campaign (1497–1499), Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–79), Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)

Mesih Pasha or Misac Pasha[1] (died November 1501) was an Ottoman statesman of Byzantine Greek origin, being a nephew of the last Roman emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos. He served as Kapudan Pasha of the Ottoman Navy and was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire in 1501.

  1. ^ Mehmed II the Conqueror and the fall of the Franco-Byzantine Levant to the Ottoman Turk, pg. 267, by Marios Philippides