Valide Sultan

Valide Sultan was the title held by the mother of a ruling sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The title was supposedly created by Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century for his mother Hafsa Sultan, superseding the previous epithets of mehd-i ulya . Normally, the living mother of a ruling sultan held this title; mothers who died before their sons' accession to the throne never received it. In spec... (Wikipedia)