Aynışah Hatun

Aynışah Hatun
Born Amasya, Ottoman Empire
(modern-day Turkey)
Died Bursa (?),[1] Ottoman Empire
(modern-day Turkey)
Spouse Damad Sultanzade Göde Ahmed Bey
Issue Sultanzade Zeyneddin Bey
Two daughters
House Ottoman (by birth)
Aq Qoyunlu (by marriage)
Father Bayezid II
Mother Şirin Hatun
Religion Islam

Aynışah Hatun was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Bayezid II (reign 1481–1512) and sister of Sultan Selim I (reign 1512–1520) of the Ottoman Empire.

Life

Aynışah, or Hatice Aynışah Hatun [2], was born in Amasya, during her father's princedom. Her mother was his consort Şirin Hatun ; thus she had one full-sibling, Şehzade Abdullah (d. 1483).[2]

In 1489[2] or 1490,[3] Aynışah was married to Göde Ahmed Bey (d. 1498), son of Shahzada Damad Muhammad Mirza Pasha Ugurlu of the Ağ Qoyunlu[4][5] and her aunt Gevherhan Hatun and thus her own cousin. There is a possibility that, since Ahmed had already been living in the Sultan's court for a long time, the marriage took place at an even earlier date.[2] Göde Ahmed later took part in the fight for the Ağ Qoyunlu throne and was eventually murdered after a brief rule over the Ağ Qoyunlu lands.[4][5]

Aynışah kept correspondence with both her father, Bayezid, and brother Selim, as has been proven by surviving letters of hers. [6]

She was still alive and on good terms with the latter when he deposed the former in 1512, as evident in a letter she, like several of her sisters[2], wrote him to congratulate him on his ascension.[7][8]

In around 1506,[6] she built a mekteb (meaning elementary school) in Alemdar vicinity of Fatih, Istanbul, close to where Hacı Beşir Ağa Külliye (meaning Complex) was later erected. In this school she bequeathed her property. [6] Her grave was also situated there,[9][10] while a certain Aynışah Sultan that lies buried in the same tomb as her mother Şirin and brother Abdullah, in Bursa, is her niece of the same name, Abdullah's daughter. [6][11]

Issue

With Göde Ahmed, Aynışah had three children:

References

  1. ↑ Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 303.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 143.
  3. ↑ Uluçay 1985, p. 24.
  4. 1 2 3 Faroqhi, Fleet 2012.
  5. 1 2 Uluçay 1985, p. 21.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Uluçay 1985, p. 25.
  7. ↑ Uluçay 1956, p. 68.
  8. ↑ Tezcan 2006.
  9. ↑ Hafiz Hueseyin Ayvansaray-i; Howard Crane (2000). The Garden of the Mosques: Hafiz Hüseyin Al-Ayvansarayî's Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul. Istanbul: Brill.
  10. ↑ Mehmed Süreyya Bey,; Ali Aktan; Abdülkadir Yuvalı; Mustafa Keskin (1995). Tezkire-i meşâhir-i Osmaniyye. Sebil Yayınevi.
  11. ↑ Şapolyo 1961, p. 93.

Sources

  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 303.
  • Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (1985). Padışahların kadınları ve kızları. Türk Tarihi Kurumu Yayınları.
  • The Cambridge History of Turkey Volume 2: the Ottoman Empire as a World Power 1453-1603 (edited by Suraiya N.Faroqhi,Kate Fleet). Cambridge University Press. 2012.
  • Uluçay, M.Cağatay (1956). Harem'den mektuplar I. Vakit matbaasi.
  • Tezcan, Hülya (2006). Osmanlı çocukları: şehzadeler ve hanım sultanların yaşlamarı ve giysileri. Istanbul: Aygaz Yayınları.
  • Hafiz Hueseyin Ayvansaray-i; Howard Crane (2000). The Garden of the Mosques: Hafiz Hüseyin Al-Ayvansarayî's Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul. Istanbul: Brill.
  • Mehmed Süreyya Bey; Ali Aktan; Abdülkadir Yuvalı; Mustafa Keskin (1995). Tezkire-i meşâhir-i Osmaniyye. Sebil Yayınevi.
  • Enver Behnan Şapolyo (1961). Osmanlı sultanları tarihi. Istanbul: R.Zaimler Yayınevi.
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