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Line 45: Hafsa was born in around 1472.<ref name="Türe">{{cite book | last1=Türe | first1=D.F. | last2=Türe | first2=F. | title=Women's Memory: The Problem of Sources | publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-4438-3265-6 | page=57}}</ref>{{sfn|Şahin|2023|p=35}} She became a concubine of Selim, when he was a prince and the governor of Trabzon. With him, she had five children, a son, [[Suleiman the Magnificent|Suleiman I]] and four daughters.<ref name="Bostan">{{cite journal | last=Bostan | first=M. Hanefi | title=Yavuz Sultan Selim'in Şehzâdelik Dönemi (1487-1512) | journal=Türk Kültürü İncelemeleri Dergisi | date=2019-05-01 | url=https://tkidergisi.com/tki-dergisi/yavuz-sultan-selimin-sehzdelik-donemi-1487-1512 | language=tr | pages=1–86}}</ref>{{sfn|Şahin|2023|pp=34, 124}} According to Turkish tradition, all princes were expected to work as provincial governors as a part of their training. Hafsa joined Suleiman during his early princely assignments, initially in Kefe in 1509,{{sfn|Şahin|2023|p=68}} and later in Manisa{{sfn|Peirce|1993|p=61}} in 1513.<ref name="Singer">{{cite book | last=Singer | first=A. | title=Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem | publisher=State University of New York Press | series=SUNY series in Near Eastern Studies | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-7914-5351-3 | page=90}}</ref> She was supervisor and manager of the inner household and of Suleiman's personal life.{{sfn|Şahin|2023|p=84}} Within his court in Kefe, she was granted a monthly stipend of 1,000 aspers, compared to Suleiman's 600 aspers.{{sfn|Şahin|2023|p=72}} In Manisa, she was initially granted a monthly stipend of Hafsa was Suleiman's closest companion and kept his constant company.{{sfn|Şahin|2023|pp=84, 88}} According to [[Guillaume Postel]], she, purportedly saved Suleiman from potential execution by his father. She allegedly instructed him to disavow any interest in succeeding his father as the sultan. Several years before Selim's death, he is said to have tested his sons' loyalty by expressing a desire to retire from the sultanate and asking which of them sought to rule the empire. Postel conveyed that those who responded with boldness met a fatal fate. Suleiman, guided by his mother's understanding of Selim, declined the opportunity, asserting that he was his father's slave, not his son. He expressed that even after Selim's death, assuming such responsibility would cause him great distress.{{sfn|Peirce|1993|p=230}} | |||