Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Years: 1493 - 1536
Pargalı İbrahim Paşa ("Ibrahim Pasha of Parga"; 1493 – March 15, 1536), also known as Frenk İbrahim Paşa ("the Westerner"), Makbul İbrahim Paşa ("the Favorite"), which later changes to Maktul İbrahim Paşa ("the Executed") after his execution in the Topkapı Palace, is the first Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire appointed by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
Ibrahim, born a Christian, is enslaved during his youth.
He and Suleiman become close friends as children.
In 1523, Suleiman appointss Ibrahim as Grand Vizier to replace Piri Mehmed Pasha, who had been appointed in 1518 by Suleiman's father, the preceding sultan Selim I. Ibrahim remains in office for the next thirteen years.
He attains a level of authority and influence rivaled by only a handful of other grand viziers of the Empire, but in 1536, he is executed on Suleiman's orders and his property is confiscated by the state.
