Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha

29º Ottoman Grand Vizier

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Parga, Epirus Region, Greece

Date of Death: 15-Mar-1536

Profession: politician, soldier

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Pargali Ibrahim Pasha ("Ibrahim Pasha of Parga"; c.
1495 – 15 March 1536), also known as Frenk Ibrahim Pasha ("the Westerner"), Makbul Ibrahim Pasha ("the Favorite"), which later changed to Maktul Ibrahim Pasha ("the Executed") after his execution in the Topkapi Palace, was the first Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire appointed by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Ibrahim, born a Christian, was enslaved during his youth.
He and Suleiman became close friends in their youth.
In 1523, Suleiman appointed 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 remained in office for the next 13 years.
He attained a level of authority and influence rivaled by only a handful of other grand viziers of the Empire, but in 1536, he was executed on Suleiman's orders and his property was confiscated by the state.