Not to be confused with Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha, who served as grand vizier between 1604 and 1606.
Mehmed
Honorific prefixLala
Honorific suffixPasha
Office 1Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Monarch 1Mehmed III
Term start 119 November 1595
Term end 128 November 1595
Predecessor 1Koca Sinan Pasha
Successor 1Koca Sinan Pasha
Birth placeGölmarmara, Ottoman Empire
Death date28 November 1595
Death placeIstanbul, Ottoman Empire

Lala Mehmed Pasha (died 28 November 1595) was an Ottoman military commander and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire under the reign of Mehmed III.[1]

Born in Gölmarmara in western Anatolia, he became a lala (tutor) to the Sultan Murad III and then to his son Mehmed III, hence his nickname. After having married the daughter of Mehmed III's daye (wet nurse) Halima Khatun, Mehmed Pasha rose to serve as Grand Vizier in 1595, the first year of Mehmed III's reign, although only for a matter of a few days before he suddenly died.[1][2] His lineage continued for centuries, coming all the way to Husein Avni Pasha.

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References

  1. ^ İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish)
  2. ^ Leslie P. Peirce (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-508677-5.