Behice Sultan

Behice Sultan
Born (1848-08-28)28 August 1848
Old Çırağan Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died 21 December 1876(1876-12-21) (aged 28)
Kuruçeşme Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial Nakşidil Sultan Mausoleum, Fatih Mosque, Istanbul
Spouse Hamid Bey
Dynasty Ottoman
Father Abdulmejid I
Mother Nesrin Hanım
Religion Sunni Islam

Behice Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: بهيجہ سلطان‎; 26 August 1848 – 21 December 1876) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I.

Early life

Behice Sultan was born on 26 August 1848 at the Old Çırağan Palace. Her mother was Nesrin Hanım,[1][2] the daughter of Manuçar Bey Asemiani and his wife Mahra Hanım.

Marriage

Behice Sultan fell in love with Hamid Bey,[3] the son of Mehmed Nurullah Bey, and the grandson of Halil Hamid Pasha.[1] In 1875, her uncle, Sultan Abdülaziz betrothed her to him.[4]

Tuberculosis took its victims in the palace as elsewhere in the nineteenth century. Among them was Behice Sultan. There is extant a touching letter to her from one Feleksu Kalfa, herself sick with malaria. The time of Behice's marriage was approaching, and Feleksu was happy for her that she would be going to her own palace, but at the same time, she was worried about her health. "You will be going to the country," she wrote, "where Pertev Kalfa knows many medicines." Behice was thought to be well enough to be married.[5]

Abdülaziz had ordered her trousseaux, however, he died in June 1876, and was thus completely unable to address any more issues regarding to her wedding,[6] which, in turn, got further delayed because of the death of her younger half-brother Şehzade Burhaneddin in November 1876.[4] Finally, the wedding took place on 4 December 1876, during the reign of her elder half-brother Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The couple were given a palace at Kuruçeşme, on the Bosphorus.[7]

Death

Behice Sultan died a mere two weeks[8] after her wedding, on 21 December 1876. She was buried in the mausoleum of Nakşidil Sultan located at Fatih Mosque, Istanbul.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Uluçay 2011, p. 226.
  2. ↑ Sakaoğlu 2009, p. 622.
  3. ↑ Sakaoğlu 2009, p. 624.
  4. 1 2 Sakaoğlu 2009, p. 625.
  5. ↑ Fanny Davis (1986). The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 17–8. ISBN 978-0-313-24811-5.
  6. ↑ The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
  7. 1 2 Sakaoğlu 2009, p. 626.
  8. ↑ Uluçay 2011, p. 227.

Sources

  • Mustafa Çağatay Uluçay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara, Ötüken.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
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