Fatma Sultan (daughter of Selim I)

Fatma Sultan
Born 1500
Trabzon, Ottoman Empire
Died 1573 (aged 72–73)
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial Kara Ahmed Pasha Türbe
Spouse Mustafa Pasha
Kara Ahmed Pasha
Hadım İbrahim Pasha
Dynasty Ottoman
Father Selim I
Mother Hafsa Sultan
Religion Islam

Fatma Sultan (1500–1573) (Ottoman Turkish: فاطمہ سلطان‎) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Selim I and Hafsa Sultan. She was the sister of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

Biography

She was first married to Mustafa Pasha, governor of Antalya; however they divorced when it turned out that he was homosexual and had no interest in her.[1]

Then, she married Kara Ahmed Pasha, who was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1553 and 1555, and they had two daughters. After his execution, she either went to live in Bursa but returned to the Imperial Palace after the death of Suleiman I, or, according to other sources, was forcibly married to Hadim Ibrahim Pasha in or between 1556 and 1562, presumably as a punishment for her intrigues.

She died in 1573 and was buried in Kara Ahmed Pasha's tomb.

In the TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Fatma Sultan is played by Turkish actress Meltem Cumbul.

See also

Further reading

  • Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-508677-5 (paperback).
  • Yavuz Bahadıroğlu, Resimli Osmanlı Tarihi, Nesil Yayınları (Ottoman History with Illustrations, Nesil Publications), 15th Ed., 2009, ISBN 978-975-269-299-2 (Hardcover).

References

  1. ↑ Peirce 1993, p. .
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