Maryam Khanom

Maryam Khanom Bani Isra'il (Persian: مریم خانم یهودی; fl. 1804) was the royal consort of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (r. 1789–1797) and then the thirty-ninth royal consort of Agha Mohammad's nephew and successor Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797–1834).^[1]

Maryam Khanom
Born	Mazandaran province
Died	after 1804 Qajar Iran
Consort of	Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
Issue	With Fath-Ali Maḥmud Mirzā Homāyun Mirza Aḥmad-ʿAli Mirzā several other unknown children
House	Qajar dynasty (by marriage)

Life

She was from Māzandarān and of Jewish origin, and is sometimes referred to as "Maryam Khanom Bani Isra'il" (Arabic: بني إسرائيل "sons - or children - of Israel") to distinguish her from Maryam Khanom Gorji, another consort of Fath-Ali.^[2] She was reported to have "no rival in beauty".^[3]

When she was widowed the first time, Hossein Khan Sardar, the brother of the new shah wished to marry her, but Fath-Ali instead married her himself, which caused a conflict between them.^[3][4]

She had eleven children, among them prince Maḥmud Mirzā (1799–1835), Homāyun Mirzā (1801–1856) and Aḥmad-ʿAli Mirzā (born 1804).