Gülüstü Hanım

Gülüstü Hanım
Imperial consort of the Ottoman Sultan
Tenure 1855 – 1861
Born Fatma Chachba
c. 1831
Sukhumi , Abkhazia (present day Georgia)
Died c. 1865 (aged 33–34)
Eyüp Palace, Eyüp, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial Fatih Mosque, Fatih, Istanbul
Spouse Abdulmejid I
Issue Mehmed VI
Mediha Sultan
House Shervashidze (by birth)
Ottoman (by marriage)
Father Tahir Chachba
Mother Afişe Lakerba
Religion Sunni Islam

Gülüstü Hanım (Turkish pronunciation: [ɟylysˈty]); (c. 1831 – c. 1865; Ottoman Turkish: کلستو خانم‎) was the nineteenth wife of Sultan Abdulmejid I. She was the mother of Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Life

Born in 1830 in Sukhumi, Abkhazia. Born as Fatma, Chachba, she was a member of the Abkhazian princely family, Shervashidze. Her father was Prince Tahir Bey Chachba and his mother was Afişe Hanım Lakerba.[1]

Fatma came to Istanbul with her family in 1831, where her father died in 1832. At the age of ten, she was entrusted to the imperial harem, where her name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Gülüstü. She then became a lady-in-waiting to Bezmiâlem Sultan.[1]

Gülüstü married Abdulmejid in August 1854.[1] She was given the title of "Dördüncü Ikbal". On 30 August 1856, two years after marriage, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Mediha Sultan.[2] Five years later on 14 January 1861, she gave birth to her second child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Vahideddin (future Mehmed VI).[3]

Death

After Abdulmejid's death in 1861, Gülüstü Hanım moved to a waterfront palace located at Eyüp, where she died in 1865, in an outbreak of cholera.[4] She was buried in her own mausoleum located in Fatih Mosque, Fatih, Istanbul.[5][6] Since Mehmed VI became sultan long after Gülüstü's death, she was never a Valide Sultan.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Açba 2007, p. 43.
  2. ↑ Uluçay 2011, p. 229.
  3. ↑ Tucker, Spencer (2005). World War I: Encyclopedia, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 779. ISBN 978-1-851-09420-2.
  4. ↑ Bardakçı, Murat (2017). Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. Oxford University Press. pp. 5, 6. ISBN 978-9-774-16837-6.
  5. ↑ Açba 2007, p. 44.
  6. ↑ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 602-3.

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.

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