Fatma Sultan (daughter of Murad III)

Fatma Sultan
Died Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial Murad III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque, Istanbul
Spouse Damad Halil Pasha
Damad Hızır Pasha
Issue A son
Dynasty Ottoman
Father Murad III
Mother Safiye Sultan
Religion Sunni Islam

Fatma Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: فاطمہ سلطان‎) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574 - 1595) and Safiye Sultan, and sister of Sultan Mehmed III (reign 1595 - 1603) of the Ottoman Empire.

Life

Fatma Sultan was a daughter of Sultan Murad III, and his consort Safiye Sultan.[1]

On 6 December 1593 she was married, at Murad's behest to Halil Pasha, Admiral of the Fleet.[2] Her wedding took place at the Old Palace, and was celebrated in a seven-day ceremony.[3] The historian Mustafa Selaniki described the excitement of the crowds who turned out to watch the elaborate processional that carried Fatma Sultan, who was concealed behind a screen of red satin, to the palace of her new husband. Selaniki wrote that at the wedding of Fatma Sultan "skirtfulls of shiny new coins were distributed... those who did not receive any sighed with longing."[4] According to the historian Hoca Sadeddin Efendi, her dowry was 300,000 ducats.[2] As part of the celebrations, the members of the Imperial Council were given a seven-day leave.[2]

In 1595, Halil Pasha did not sail with the fleet. This was particularly because neither Safiye nor Fatma were willing to let him leave Istanbul. Their reluctance probably stemmed from the fact that Fatma was pregnant. She gave birth to a son in October 1595, which strengthened the new Sultan Mehmed's and Safiye's affection for Halil Pasha.[5]

Fatma Sultan owned a translation of "The Ascension of Propitious Stars and Sources of Sovereignty" (Matali' us-sa'ade ve menabi' us-siyade).[6] After Halil Pasha's death in 1603, she married Hızır Pasha in December 1604.[7] She is buried in her father's mausoleum, located at the Hagia Sophia Mosque, Istanbul.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Peirce 1993, p. 95.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Uluçay 2011, p. 76.
  3. ↑ Blake, Stephen P. (February 11, 2013). Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman Empires. Cambridge University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-107-03023-7.
  4. ↑ Peirce 1993, p. 123.
  5. ↑ Cuerva, Ruben Gonzalez; Koller, Alexander (August 28, 2017). A Europe of Courts, a Europe of Factions: Political Groups at Early Modern Centres of Power (1550-1700). BRILL. p. 105. ISBN 978-9-004-35058-8.
  6. ↑ Fetvacı, Emine (2013). Picturing History at the Ottoman Court. Indiana University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-253-00678-3.
  7. ↑ Tezcan, Baki (November 2001). Searching for Osman: A reassessment of the deposition of the Ottoman Sultan Osman II (1618-1622). pp. 328 n. 18.

Sources

  • Peirce, Leslie P. (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-08677-5.
  • Mustafa Çağatay Uluçay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara, Ötüken.
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