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Hamida Banu Begum

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(died 1604)

BIRTH

UNKNOWN

PLACE

Unknown

DEATH

1604

PLACE

Unknown

FAMILY

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HUSBAND

Humayun

(1508–1556)

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CHILDREN

Akbar the Great

(1542-1605)

HOMES

RELIGIOUS VIEWS

RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED

DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED

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Hamida Banu Begum was a wife of Mughal emperor Humayun and the mother of emperor Akbar. She married Humayun in 1541 and later held the honorific Maryam Makani. She should not be confused with Humayun’s senior widow Bega Begum.

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DEATH

Hamida Banu Begum, widow of Humayun and mother of Akbar, died in 1604. She is traditionally said to be buried in Humayun's Tomb in Delhi, although an archaeological survey notes that the individual graves around Humayun are uninscribed and cannot be identified with certainty. The consulted sources do not establish her cause of death.

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