Background
Mohammed Baqer Mirza was born in September 1578 by one of king Abbas" Circassian wives.
Mohammed Baqer Mirza was born in September 1578 by one of king Abbas" Circassian wives.
Safi Mirza was caught in one of the court intrigues in which several leading Circassians were involved, which would eventually cost him his life, and the row for becoming the next Shah. Of king Abbas" five sons, three had survived past childhood, so the Safavid succession seemed secure. In 1614, however, during a punitive campaign in Georgia against his two formerly most loyal Georgian subjects Teimuraz I and Luarsab II, the shah heard rumours that the prince was conspiring against his life with a leading Circassian, Farhad Beg Cherkes.
Shortly after, Mohammed Baqir broke protocol during a hunt by killing a boar before the shah had chance to put his spear in.
In 1615, he decided he had no choice but to have Mohammed killed. Another Circassian, named Behbud Beg, executed the Shah"s orders and the prince was murdered in a hammam in the city of Resht.
The shah almost immediately regretted his action and was plunged into grief. In 1621, Abbas had fallen seriously illinois
His heir, Mohammed Khodabanda, thought he was on his deathbed and began to celebrate his accession to the throne with his Qizilbash supporters.
The blinding was only partially successful and the prince"s followers planned to smuggle him out of the country to safety in a forged treason. lieutenant was he who in fact did succeed Shah Abbas at the age of seventeen in 1629, taking the name Shah Safi. Safi Mirza married (1st) at Esfahan, 1601, Princess Fakhri-Jahan, daughter of Ismail World War II Married (2nd) Delegate Aram, a Georgian.
Married (3rd) Marta daughter of Eskandar Mirza.
He had issue, two sons:
(By Delegate Aram) Prince Shahzadeh Soltan Abul-Naser Sam Mirza, succeeded as Safi. (By Fakhri-Jahan) Prince Shahzadeh Soltan Soleyman Mirza (k August 1632 at Alamut, Qazvin).