Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)

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Ayşe Sultan
Bornc. 1606
Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Diedfl. 1672
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Ahmed I mausoleum, Blue Mosque, Istanbul[1]
Spouses
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(m. 1612; executed 1614)​

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(m. 1622; killed 1632)​

Murtaza Pasha
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(m. 1633; died 1636)​

Ahmed Pasha
(m. c. 1639; died 1644)
Voynuk Ahmed Pasha
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(died 1649)​

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(m. 1655; executed 1655)​

Ermeni Süleyman Pasha
DynastyOttoman
FatherAhmed I
MotherKösem Sultan
ReligionSunni Islam

Ayşe Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: عائشه سلطان; c. 1606[2] – fl. 1672[3]) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed I (reign 1603–17) and Kösem Sultan, half-sister of Sultan Osman II (reign 1618–22) and sister of Sultan Murad IV (reign 1623–40) and Sultan Ibrahim (reign 1640–48) of the Ottoman Empire.

Biography[edit]

Born in around in 1606[2] in Istanbul, Ayşe Sultan was one of Ahmed's daughters by his favourite consort Kösem Sultan.[4] She was married firstly to Gümülcineli Nasuh Pasha, Grand Vizier between 1611–14.[4] The marriage took place in February 1612, and the wedding took place in December 1612, three months after Nasuh's arrival in Istanbul from the Safavid campaign.[5] The celebrations of their engagement and wedding ceremonies, as well as those of her sister Gevherhan Sultan and Öküz Kara Mehmed Pasha, which took place in succession over a number of months of 1611 and 1612, were sponsored by Ahmed, and were so elaborate and extravagant that they were observed by the public as if they were festivals marking the end of wars the sultan had promised.[6] The couple was given a palace located opposite the quay known as Salacak in Üsküdar. Nasuh was executed in 1614, and she retained the palace as her own property.[7]

In 1618, she had a water dispenser (sebil) built in Okçubaşı avenue in Istanbul.[8] She was then promised to Karakaş Mehmed Pasha, Beylerbey (governor-general) of Buda, probably during the reign of her half-brother Sultan Osman II. However the man soon died while fighting in Osman's military campaign against Poland in 1621,[5] and she was married to Hafız Ahmed Pasha in March 1622.[9] In a letter to Hafız Pasha, Kösem had proposed the marriage alliance, expressing readiness to act promptly and extending the same care she provided in the past when arranging the marriage of her daughter Fatma Sultan.[10] Hafız Pasha died in 1632 during a Janissary revolt against her brother Murad IV,[11] and she married Murtaza Pasha, the governor of Diyarbakır in 1633.[12]: 188  She was widowed at his death in April 1636.[13] By 1639,[14] she was married to Ahmed Pasha,[12]: 168 [14][15] governor of Aleppo and then of Damascus.[15] Her daily stipend during this time was 430 aspers.[14] He died in 1644.[15]

She then married Voynuk Ahmed Pasha,[12]: 168 [16] governor of Adana, Vizier, and Admiral of the Fleet between 1648 and 1649.[17] In 1643, early in the reign of her brother Ibrahim, she is recorded, like her sisters Fatma Sultan and Hanzade Sultan, as receiving the maximum daily stipend for imperial princesses of the time, namely 400 aspers;[18] yet, later, in around 1647, the three of them as well as their niece, Murad's daughter Kaya Sultan, were subjected, on what was another assault of the protocol on Ibrahim's part, to the indignity of subordination to his concubines. He took away their lands and jewels (presumably to award them to his hasekis), and made them serve Hümaşah Sultan, the concubine he married, by standing at attention like servants while she ate and fetching and holding the soap, basin and pitcher of water with which she washed her hands.[2] Because of what he believed was their failure to serve his beloved Hümaşah properly, the Sultan then banished them to Edirne Palace.[15]

Ahmed Pasha died in battle, by rifle fire in 1649.[19] Ayşe was then betrothed to rebel Ibşir Mustafa Pasha. She apparently anxiously awaited her intended husband's arrival – which he delayed for months[20] – for she dispatched several emissaries to bring him to the capital. Her head servant, Mercan Ağa, finally succeeded in the task, and when Ibşir and his troops reached her palace in Üsküdar she treated him and the statesmen that had come to receive him to a great banquet, [21] "like a feast of Hatem Tay", according to Evliya Çelebi.[7] Their wedding took place on 25 February 1655.[22] Their life together was short, ending upon his execution in May 1655.[23][24] She was then married to Ermeni Süleyman Pasha.[3][12]: 168 

In popular culture[edit]

  • Ayşe Sultan is a character in Güngör Dilmen's (1930-2012) one-woman play I, Anatolia (Ben, Anadolu), featuring Anatolian women "from time immemorial to the early twentieth century".[25]
  • In 2015 Turkish historical fiction TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem, an adolescent Ayşe Sultan is portrayed by Turkish actress Sude Zulal Güner.[26]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Şehsuvaroğlu, H.Y. (1959). Asırlar boyunca İstanbul: sarayları, camileri, abîdeleri, çeşmeleri. Cumhuriyet. p. 200.
  2. ^ a b c Peirce 1993, p. 246.
  3. ^ a b Vergili, Muhammed (December 7, 2020). "Atik Şikâyet Defteri (7 numaralı H.1081-1083/ M.1671-1672) Transkripsiyon- değerlendirme". Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü. pp. 208, 267.
  4. ^ a b Börekçi 2010, p. 238.
  5. ^ a b Tezcan, Baki (2001). Searching for Osman : a reassessment of the deposition of the Ottoman sultan Osman II (1618-1622) unpublished PhD. thesis (Thesis). Princeton University. p. 334 n. 58.
  6. ^ Börekçi 2010, p. 240.
  7. ^ a b Çelebi, Dankoff & Murphy 1991, p. 134.
  8. ^ Demircanlı, Y.Y. (1989). İstanbul mimarisi için kaynak olarak Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi. Seyahatname. Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü. p. 450. ISBN 978-975-19-0121-7.
  9. ^ Çiçek, Fikri (2014). An examination of daily politics and factionalism at the Ottoman Imperial court in relation to the regicide of Osman II (r. 1618-22). Istanbul Şehir University. p. 66.
  10. ^ Peirce 1993, pp. 147–148.
  11. ^ Gibb, E.J.W. (1901). Ottoman Literature: The Poets and Poetry of Turkey. Universal classics library. M.W. Dunne. pp. 236–237.
  12. ^ a b c d Miović, Vesna (2018-05-02). "Per favore della Soltana: moćne osmanske žene i dubrovački diplomati". Anali Zavoda Za Povijesne Znanosti Hrvatske Akademije Znanosti i Umjetnosti U Dubrovniku (in Croatian). 56 (56/1): 147–197. doi:10.21857/mwo1vczp2y. ISSN 1330-0598.
  13. ^ Bournoutian, G.A. (2004). The Chronicle of Deacon Zakʻaria of Kʻanakʻer. Armenian studies series. Mazda Publishers. pp. 113, 119. ISBN 978-1-56859-121-6.
  14. ^ a b c Dumas, Juliette (2013). Les perles de nacre du sultanat: Les princesses ottomanes (mi-XVe – mi-XVIIIe siècle). p. 464.
  15. ^ a b c d Mustafa Naima Efendi (1968). Naîmâ Târihi - Cilt 4. Zuhuri Danişman Yayinevi. pp. 1569, 1781.
  16. ^ Çelebi, Dankoff & Murphy 1991, p. 52.
  17. ^ Gülsoy 2004, pp. 95, 96.
  18. ^ Peirce 1993, p. 128.
  19. ^ Gülsoy 2004, p. 96.
  20. ^ Çelebi, Dankoff & Murphy 1991, p. 146.
  21. ^ Çelebi, Dankoff & Murphy 1991, p. 128.
  22. ^ Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha 2012, p. 9.
  23. ^ Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha 2012, pp. 24–25.
  24. ^ Peirce 1993, p. 147.
  25. ^ Halman, Talât Sait; Warner, Jayne L. (2008). I, Anatolia and Other Plays. Syracuse University Press. pp. 205, 233–234. ISBN 9786059306409.
  26. ^ "Gönül Dağı'na Muhteşem Yüzyıl Kösem'den transfer! 4.sezonu renklendirecek". Haber7 (in Turkish). September 6, 2023. Retrieved February 18, 2024.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Çelebi, E.; Dankoff, R.; Murphy, R. (1991). The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman, Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588-1662): As Portrayed in Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels (Seyahâtnâme). SUNY series in medieval Middle East history. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-0640-3.
  • Börekçi, Günhan (2010). Factions And Favorites At The Courts Of Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603-17) And His Immediate Predecessors. Ohio State University.
  • Gülsoy, Ersin (2004). Girit'in fethi ve Osmanlı idaresinin kurulması 1645–1670. Tarih ve Tabiat Vakfı.
  • Peirce, Leslie P. (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-08677-5.
  • Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha (2012). ZEYL-İ FEZLEKE (1065-22 Ca.1106 / 1654-7 Şubat 1695).
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