Şayeste Hanım

Şayeste Hanım
Imperial consort of the Ottoman Sultan
Tenure 1852 – 25 June 1861
Born c. 1836 (1836)
Sukhumi, Abkhazia
Died 11 February 1912(1912-02-11) (aged 75–76)
Çengelköy Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Mausoleum, Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul
Spouse Abdulmejid I
Issue Naile Sultan
A stillborn son
House Ottoman (by marriage)
Father Tataş Inalipa
Mother Sarey Hanım
Religion Sunni Islam

Şayeste Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: شائسته خانم‎, c. 1836 – 11 February 1912) was the seventeenth wife of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire.

Early life

Şayeste Hanım was born in 1836 in Sukhumi, Abkhazia. She was a member of the Abkhazian princely family, Inalipa. Her father was Prince Tataş Bey Inalipa, and her mother was Sarey Hanım. She had three sisters, Princess Fatma Mihrifelek Hanım,[1] Princess Hüsnidil Hanım,[2] and Princess Faruhan Hanım. She was the maternal aunt of Bedrifelek Kadın, second wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.[3]

Both of her parents died when she was a child. She had been brought to Istanbul, where her uncle entrusted her and her sister, Fatma Mihrifelek Hanım to the imperial harem. Here her name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Şayeste.[1]

Marriage

Şayeste married Abulmejid in 1852.[1] She was given the title of "Beşinci Ikbal". A year after the marriage, on 3 February 1853, she gave birth to her first child, a stillborn son.[4] Three years later, on 1 September 1856 she gave birth to her second child, a daughter, Naile Sultan.[5][6] She was then given the title of "Dördüncü Ikbal", and later the title of "Üçüncü Ikbal". In 1858-59, she commissioned a mosque in Üsküdar.[7]

Later years

After Gülüstü Hanım's death in 1865, the four years old Şehzade Mehmed Vahideddin (future Mehmed VI) was entrusted in her care. The prince had a roughtime with his overbearing stepmother, and at the age of sixteen he left his stepmother's mansion with the three servants who had been serving him since childhood.[8]

In 1876,[9] Şayeste married her daughter, Naile Sultan to a relative of her's named Çerkeş Mehmed Paşa.[10] Naile died a year later on 7 January 1881 at the age of twenty four.[5] After Naile's death, Mehmed Pasha married Esma Sultan, the daughter of Sultan Abdülaziz in 1889.[11]

During the reign of Abdul Hamid II, Mehmed was given a mansion in Çengelköy. On this estate, Mehmed had another house built for Şayeste, with whom he had spent his childhood. Even though he had not got along with her stepmother in the past, he could not forget the struggle she had gone through while bringing him up.[12]

In March 1898, Şayeste attended the wedding of Naime Sultan, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Kemaleddin Pasha, the son of Ghazi Osman Pasha.[13]

Hamide Ayşe Sultan, daughter of Abdul hamid II, notes in her memoirs that during her father's reign, Şayeste would attend Ramadan celebrations, and would always sit next to Perestu Kadın.[14]

Death

Among the longest living consorts of Abdulmejid,[15] she died on 11 February 1912 in the Çengelköy Palace, and was buried in the mausoleum of Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin in Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul.[10]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Açba 2007, p. 69.
  2. ↑ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 603.
  3. ↑ Açba 2007, p. 124.
  4. ↑ Uluçay 2011, p. 216.
  5. 1 2 Uluçay 2011, p. 231.
  6. ↑ Brookes 2010, p. 128.
  7. ↑ Haskan, Mehmet Nermi (2001). Yüzyıllar boyunca Üsküdar - Volume 1. Üsküdar Belediyesi. p. 136. ISBN 978-9-759-76062-5.
  8. ↑ Bardakçı 2017, p. 6.
  9. ↑ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 634.
  10. 1 2 Açba 2007, p. 70.
  11. ↑ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 635.
  12. ↑ Bardakçı 2017, p. 7.
  13. ↑ Brookes 2010, p. 160, 285.
  14. ↑ Brookes 2010, p. 185.
  15. ↑ Brookes 2010, p. 289.

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