Ayşe Sultan (wife of Osman II)

Ayşe Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: عایشه سلطان‎; died c. 1640) was the consort of Sultan Osman II of the Ottoman Empire.[1][2][3]

Ayşe Sultan
Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
(Imperial Consort)
TenureJanuary 1620 – 20 May 1622
PredecessorKösem Sultan
SuccessorAyşe Sultan
Diedc. 1640
Eski Palace, Beyazıt Square, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
SpouseOsman II
Full name
Turkish: Ayşe Sultan
Ottoman Turkish: عایشه سلطان‎
HouseHouse of Osman (by marriage)
ReligionSunni Islam , previously Orthodox Christian

Life

Her name appears in privy purse registers from 1619 on,[4] but nothing is known about her except her name.[3][1]

According to Peirce, Ayşe was Osman's haseki sultan. But according to Piterberg, Osman II did not have a haseki and Ayşe was just "a politically insignificant consort." Even though her status was debatable, it is clear that Ayşe could not become a prominent female figure like other haseki sultans. Also, a governess (daye hatun, lit. wet-nurse) who was appointed as a stand-in valide, could not counterbalance the contriving of Mustafa I's mother in the Old Palace. This condition made the conspious absence of a female power basis in the harem during her spouse's reign, the basic and exceptional weakness from which Osman II suffered.[5]

After Osman's death in 1622 she stayed in the imperial palace.[1] Privy Purse records her presence lastly in 1640.[4][6]

Bibliography
  • Peirce, Leslie P. (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508677-5.
  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların Kadınları ve Kızları. Ötüken Neşriyat.

References
  1. Peirce 1993, p. 106.
  2. Gabriel Piterberg (2003). An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. University of California Press. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-520-93005-6.
  3. Uluçay 2011, p. 88.
  4. Peirce 1993, p. 311.
  5. Piterberg, Gabriel (2003). An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. California: University of California Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-520-23836-2.
  6. Ahmed Akgündüz, Said Öztürk (2011). Ottoman History: Misperceptions and Truths. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-90-90-26108-9.
Ottoman royalty
Preceded by
Kösem Sultan		 Haseki Sultan
January 1620 – 20 May 1622		 Succeeded by
Ayşe Sultan
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