Behice Sultan

Behice Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: بهيجه سلطان‎; 26 August 1848 – 21 December 1876) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Nesrin Hanım. She was the half-sister of Sultans Murad V, Abdul Hamid II, Mehmed V, and Mehmed VI.

Behice Sultan
The türbe of Behice Sultan is located inside the courtyard of Fatih Mosque at Fatih in Istanbul.
Born(1848-08-26)26 August 1848
Old Çırağan Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died21 December 1876(1876-12-21) (aged 28)
Kuruçeşme Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Nakşidil Sultan Mausoleum, Fatih Mosque, Istanbul
SpouseHamid Bey
DynastyOttoman
FatherAbdulmejid I
MotherNesrin Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Behice Sultan was born on 26 August 1848 in the Old Çırağan Palace. Her father was Sultan Abdulmejid I, and her mother was Nesrin Hanım,[1][2] the daughter of Manuçar Asemiani and Mahra Hanım.[3] She had one elder brother, Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin born in 1846, and two twins younger brothers Şehzade Mehmed Nizameddin and Şehzade Mehmed Bahaeddin born in 1850 two years younger then her.

Marriage

Engagement

Behice Sultan had been in love with Hamid Bey,[4] the son of Mehmed Nurullah Bey, and the grandson of Grand Vizier Halil Hamid Pasha.[1] And so in 1875, her uncle, Sultan Abdulaziz betrothed her to him.

Illness

Tuberculosis took its victims in the palace as elsewhere in the nineteenth century. There is extant a touching letter to Behice from one Feleksu Kalfa, herself sick with malaria. The time of Behice's marriage was approaching, and Feleksu was happy for her that she would be going to her own palace, but at the same time, Feleksu worried about Behice's health. "You will be going to the country," she wrote, "where Pertev Kalfa knows many medicines." Behice was thought to be well enough to be married.[5]

Wedding

Abdulaziz had ordered her trousseaux; however, he died in June 1876, and was thus unable to address any more issues regarding to her wedding,[6] which, in turn, got further delayed because of the death of her younger half-brother Şehzade Burhaneddin in November 1876. Finally, the wedding took place on 4 December 1876, during the reign of her elder half-brother Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The couple were given a palace at Kuruçeşme, on the Bosphorus.

Death

Behice Sultan died of tuberculosis a mere two weeks after her wedding, on 21 December 1876.[7] She was buried in the mausoleum of Nakşidil Sultan located at Fatih Mosque, Istanbul. [8]

See also

Ancestry

References
  1. Uluçay 2011, p. 226.
  2. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 622.
  3. Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. p. 53. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
  4. Sakaoğlu 2009, p. 624.
  5. Fanny Davis (1986). The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 17–8. ISBN 978-0-313-24811-5.
  6. The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
  7. "S A B A H O N L I N E 14.07.2001". arsiv.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  8. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 10.

Sources
  • Mustafa Çağatay Uluçay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara, Ötüken.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
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