In 1613 the Portuguese seized her great ship, the Rahimi, provoking a crisis with the Mughals. In 1569 she gave birth to Salim, Akbar's long-awaited heir, who later became the emperor Jahangir. She received the title Mariam-uz-Zamani, meaning Mary of the Age. She became one of the wealthiest women in the Mughal empire and engaged in overseas trade, owning ships that carried pilgrims and goods to Arabia. Her tomb stands near Akbar's mausoleum at Sikandra. A major incident that further strained relations between the Mughals and the Portuguese was the seizure and burning of Mariam-uz-Zamani's pilgrimage ship, the Rahīmī, in September 1613. In 1617, two English pirates tried to seize Mariam-uz-Zamani's ship, which was returning from the Red Sea with numerous hajjis and valuable cargo, but in the nick of time, the ship was rescued. During the plague at Agra in 1619, when Jahangir was staying at Fatehpur Sikri, he recorded that Mariam-uz-Zamani travelled from Agra to visit him and expressed gratitude for the opportunity to wait upon her, adding that he hoped "the shadow of her protection and affection" would always remain over him. Mariam-uz-Zamani died in May 1623, immensely rich and powerful. She was buried with due honour in a mausoleum at Sikandra, near the tomb of her husband, Akbar. However, Jahangir's memoirs contain several references to her declining health from 1616 onwards, describing her as physically frail in her later years.