Hayır Bey (sometimes spelled Kha'ir Bey or Kha'ir Beg) or Khayrbak (died 1522) ruledEgypt in the name of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 until his death in 1522.[1][2][3] He was granted the position of governor by sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire for his help in the conquest of Egypt.
He married Miṣirbāy (d. 1522), widow of sultan An-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qaitbay (r. 1496-1498) and sultan Abu Sa'id Qansuh (r. 1498-1500); according to contemporary sources, he abused her so severely that she almost died, and the couple separated.[6]
^Süreyya, Bey Mehmet, Nuri Akbayar, and Seyit Ali. Kahraman. Sicill-i Osmanî. Beşiktaş, İstanbul: Kültür Bakanlığı Ile Türkiye Ekonomik Ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı'nın Ortak Yayınıdır, 1890. Print.
^Albrecht Fuess, “How to marry right: Searching for a royal spouse at the Mamluk court of Cairo in the fifteenth century”, DYNTRAN Working Papers, n° 21, online edition, February 2017, available at: http://dyntran.hypotheses.org/1761
.png){kind=small}