Note 441 — Chapter V · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS A NOBILITY AND A COURT
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Hammer (Geschichte, ii. 222) says that the custom of accomplishing the death of sons of daughters of sultans (by neglecting to tie the navel cord) dates from Mohammed II; but no contemporary authority appears to mention such a custom. D’Ohsson, vii. 93, says that it was instituted in the time of Achmet I. The son of a sister of Selim I was Beylerbey of Aleppo about 1550 (Alberi, Anonimo of 1553, 228).