Hümaşah Sultan (daughter of Şehzade Mehmed)
| Hümaşah Sultan هماشاہ سلطان | |
|---|---|
| Born |
c. 1540 or 1544 Manisa, Ottoman Empire |
| Died |
c. 1592–1593 (aged 47–53) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Burial | Şehzade Mosque, Istanbul |
| Spouse |
Damad Ferhad Pasha (m. 1566–1575) Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha (m. 1575–1580) Damad Gazi Mehmed Pasha (m. 1581–1592) |
| Issue |
Sultanzade Hasan Bey Sultanzade Ibrahim Bey Sultanzade Mustafa Paşa Sultanzade Osman Bey Sultanzade Süleyman Bey Sultanzade Abdulbaki Bey Fatma Hanimsultan |
| Dynasty | Ottoman |
| Father | Şehzade Mehmed |
| Religion | Islam |
Hümaşah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: هماشاہ سلطان) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Şehzade Mehmed of the Ottoman Empire. She was a granddaughter of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (reign 1520–1566) and his legal wife, Hürrem Sultan.
Biography
Born in 1540 or by some sources 1544 in Manisa, where her father served as sanjakbey, Hümaşah or, according to history professor Leslie P. Peirce, Hüma[1] was his only child. Following his death in 1543, she was taken under the care of her grandmother and moved to Istanbul.
Like her cousin Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan, she was reportedly beloved by their grandfather, to whom she wrote letters.[2] She is regarded by historian M. Çağatay Uluçay as amongst the most influential women of Suleiman's reign.[3] This affection can be explained, in large measure, by the fact that her late father, Mehmed, was Suleiman's favorite son.
It was she who, in 1563, gifted her cousin Şehzade Murad (future Sultan Murad III) with a concubine that would go on to be Safiye Sultan.[4]
She was married:
- firstly, in 1566,[5] to Damad Ferhad Pasha (1526 – 6 January 1575), Third Vizier 1564–1565. She bore him five sons and three daughters, Sultanzade Hasan Bey, Sultanzade Ibrahim Bey, Sultanzade Mustafa Paşa, Sultanzade Osman Bey, Sultanzade Süleyman Bey;
- secondly, in 25 August 1575, to Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier 1580 (d. 7 August 1580). She bore him a son, Sultanzade Abdulbaki Bey;
- thirdly, in 1581, to Damad Gazi Mehmed Pasha (d. 23 August 1592).
She died in Istanbul, in either 1582 or circa 1592–1593, of unknown causes. She was buried alongside her father and uncle, Şehzade Cihangir, in Şehzade Mosque.[6]
References
- ↑ Peirce 1993, pp. 366,67.
- ↑ Tezcan 2006, p. 31.
- ↑ Uluçay 1956, p. 85.
- ↑ Pedani 2000, p. 11.
- ↑ Peirce 1993, p. 67.
- ↑ Necipoğlu 2005, p. 200.
Sources
- "Turkey: The Imperial House of Osman". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on May 2, 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- Tezcan, Hülya (2006). Osmanlı çocukları: şehzadeler ve hanım sultanların yaşlamarı ve giysileri. Istanbul: Aygaz Yayınları. ISBN 978-9-759-83723-5.
- Uluçay, M.Cağatay (1956). Harem'den mektuplar I. Vakit matbaasi. ISBN 978-9-75-437833-7.
- Pedani, M. P. (2000). "Safiye's Household and Venetian Diplomacy". Turcica. 32: 9. doi:10.2143/TURC.32.0.460.
- Peirce, Leslie Penn (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Studies in Middle Eastern History. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507673-8.
- Necipoğlu, Gülru (2005). The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-86189-253-9.