Zübeyde Sultan

Zübeyde Sultan
Born 28/29 March 1728
Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died 4 June 1756(1756-06-04) (aged 28)
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial Imperial Ladies Mausoleum, Yeni Mosque, Eminönü, Istanbul
Spouse Damad Süleyman Pasha
Damad Numan Pasha
Full name
Turkish: Zübeyde Sultan binti Ahmed Han
Dynasty Ottoman
Father Ahmed III
Mother Musli Kadın
Religion Islam

Zübeyde Sultan (28/29 March 1728 – 4 June 1756) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed III (reign 1703 – 1730) and half-sister of Sultans Mustafa III (reign 1757 – 1773) and Abdul Hamid I (reign 1773 – 1789) of the Ottoman Empire.

Life

Born on 28[1] or 29 March[2] 1728, Zübeyde Sultan was a daughter of Ahmed III[3][4] and his consort Musli Kadın.[1] Her father having been dethroned in 1730, she grew up at the Eski (Old) Palace but was able to live in comfort,[1] as he had had the farmstead of Dilsiz Mehmed Ağa, situated near Edirne, and thus it's incomes, allocated to her.[3][1]

Her cousin Mahmud I had a yalı, or waterfront manse, built for her at the precincts of Eyüp[3] in around August 1747.[4]

On 6 January 1748, during Mahmud’s reign, Zübeyde was married firstly to Süleyman Pasha[4][5], Beylerbey (governor – general) of Anatolia and Vizier, who, though, died soon after, some six months into the marriage.[6] Thus, she was married secondly, within the year, on 6 January 1749, to Numan Pasha[4][7], kapıcılar kethüdası, or head of the Imperial Palace Guards, Sanjak-Bey (provincial governor) of Thessaloniki and Kavala, and Vizier.[3][6] Her husband would go on to serve in various other provincial posts.[6]

Turkish historian Mustafa Çağatay Uluçay describes the princess as a “philanthropist, protector of the poor, who read day and night”.[3]

Death

Like the majority of her siblings, Zübeyde Sultan did not live long, dying of natural causes at the age of twenty-eight,[6] on 4 June[4] 1756.[8] She was entombed in the Imperial Ladies Mausoleum, located at Yeni Mosque, Istanbul.[3][4][6]

References

Sources

  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 303. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
  • Târîh-i Râşid ve Zeyli (Râşid Mehmed Efendi ve Çelebizâde İsmaîl Âsım Efendi) (1071-1141/1660-1729) Cilt I-III. 2013. ISBN 978-6-055-24512-2.
  • Haskan, Mehmed Nermi (2008). Eyüp Sultan tarihi – Volume 1. Eyüp Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları. ISBN 978-9-756-08704-6.
  • Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (1985). Padışahların kadınları ve kızları. Türk Tarihi Kurumu Yayınları. p. 220.
  • Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı, Süleyman Efendi (1976). Aktepe, M.Münir, ed. Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı Süleyman Efendi târihi Mürʼiʼt-tevârih-Volume 1. Edebiyat Fakültesi Matbaası.


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