Bedrifelek Kadın

Bedrifelek Kadın
Born 4 January 1851
Poti, Georgia
Died 6 February 1930(1930-02-06) (aged 79)
Serencebey Mansion, Istanbul, Turkey
Burial Yahya Efendi cemetery, Istanbul
Spouse Abdul Hamid II
Issue Şehzade Mehmed Selim
Zekiye Sultan
Şehzade Ahmed Nuri
House Ottoman (by marriage)
Father Mehmed Karzeg
Mother Faruhan İnal-lpa
Religion Sunni Islam

Bedrifelek Kadın (Ottoman Turkish: بدر فلك قادین‎; 4 January 1851 – 6 February 1930) was the second wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.

Early life

Bedrifelek Kadın was born on 4 January 1851 in Poti, Georgia. She was a member of Natukhai Circassian princely family, Karzeg. Her father was Prince Mehmed Bey Karzeg, and her mother was Princess Faruhan Hanım İnal-lpa, an Abkhazian. She had an elder sister, Princess Bezmigül Dilber Hanım, and a younger brother, Prince Kazim Pasha. She was the maternal neice of Sultan Abdulmejid I's wife Şayeste Hanım.[1]

She also had three younger paternal half-sisters, Princess Şazıdil Hanım, Princess Nevrestan Hanım and Princess Melekistan Hanım, whose mother was her father's second wife, Melekyar Hanım Vorkoj.[1]

In 1864, during the ethnic cleansing of Circassians, she had been brought to Istanbul as a young child, where her father entrusted her and her sisters to the care of her aunt Şayeste Hanım, where her name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Bedrifelek.[1]

Marriage

Bedrifelek married Abdul Hamid on 15 November 1868 in the Dolmabahçe Palace. After her marriage, her brother Kazım Pasha was made Sixth Army Cavalry in Baghdad.[2] A year after the marriage, on 11 January 1870, she gave birth to the couple's first child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Selim,[3] followed two years later by Zekiye Sultan, born on 21 January 1872.[4]

After Abdul Hamid's accession to the throne on 31 August 1876,[5] she was given the title of the "Ikinci Kadın".[6][7] The imperial family settled in Yıldız Palace,[8] where on 11 February 1878, she gave birth to the couple's third child, a son, Şehzade Ahmed Nuri.[9] In 1895, Bedrifelek was given the title of "Baș Kadın".[6][7] After Perestu Kadın's death in 1904, she became the principal lady in the imperial harem.[6]

On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Salonica.[10] Bidar didn't followed him, and so remained in Istanbul.[2] After Salonica fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned back to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.[11]

Death

After the imperial family was sent into exile in 1924, Bedrifelek settled in a mansion in Serencebey, where she died on 6 February 1930. She was buried in Yahya Efendi cemetery, Istanbul.[12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Açba 2007, p. 124.
  2. 1 2 Açba 2007, p. 125.
  3. ↑ Freely, John (July 1, 2001). Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul. Penguin. p. 287.
  4. ↑ Tuğlacı, Pars (1985). Türkiyeʼde kadın, Volume 3. Cem Yayınevi. p. 331.
  5. ↑ Clare, Israel Smith (1885). Illustrated Universal History: Being a Clear and Concise History of All Nations. P. W. Ziegler & Company. p. 549.
  6. 1 2 3 Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 672.
  7. 1 2 Uluçay 2011, p. 246.
  8. ↑ Oriental Gardens: An Illustrated History. Chronicle Books. 1992. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-811-80132-4.
  9. ↑ Bey, Mehmet Sürreya (1969). Osmanlı devletinde kim kimdi, Volume 1. Küğ Yayını. p. 132.
  10. ↑ Hall, Richard C. (October 9, 2014). War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-610-69031-7.
  11. ↑ Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroation heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.
  12. ↑ Açba 2007, p. 125-6.

Sources

  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
  • Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kandınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-6-051-71079-2.

Further reading

  • Osmanoğlu, Ayşe (2000). Babam Sultan Abdülhamid. Mona Kitap Yayinlari. ISBN 978-6-050-81202-2.
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