Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha

Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha, (Ottoman Turkish: داماد کرجی خلیل رفعت پاشا‎; c. 1795 – 3 March 1856) was a Georgian statesman of the Ottoman Empire.

Gürcü · Damat

Hali Rifat

Pasha
Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Empire
In office
1830–1832
MonarchMahmud II
Preceded byPabuççu Ahmed Pasha
Succeeded byÇengeloğlu Tahir Mehmet Pasha
In office
1843–1845
Preceded byÇengeloğlu Tahir Mehmet Pasha
Succeeded byDamat Mehmed Ali Pasha
In office
1847–1848
Preceded byDamat Mehmed Ali Pasha
Succeeded byDamat Mehmed Ali Pasha
In office
1854–1855
MonarchAbdulmejid I
Preceded byKıbrıslı Mehmed Pasha
Succeeded byDamat Mehmed Ali Pasha
Personal details
Bornc. 1795
Georgia
Died4 March 1856 (aged 58-59)
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey
NationalityOttoman
Spouse(s)Saliha Sultan
Ismet Hanım
ChildrenSultanzade Abdul Hamid Bey
Damat Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha

Career

Halil Rifat Pasha was a slave, protégé and later rival of Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha. He first served as the Ambassador to Russia from 1829–1830.[1] He then served as grand admiral for four times from 1830–1832, 1843–1845, 1847–1848 and 1854–1855,[2] as well as chairman of the Supreme Council of Judicial Ordinances ("Meclis-i Vâlâ") from 1842–1845 and 1849–1850. He also served as serasker from 1836–1838 and 1839–1840. This placed him in a good position to build and maintain a conservative group, usually in corporation with Hüsrev Pasha.[3]

Personal life

His first wife was Saliha Sultan, daughter of Sultan Mahmud II and Aşubcan Kadın. The marriage took place on 24 May 1834 in the Beşiktaş Waterfront Palace.[4] The wedding ceremony was covered in the first official Ottoman newspaper Takvim-i Vekayi.[5] The couple owned the Neşatabad Palace located in Ortaköy Defterdarburnu and the Fındıklı Palace.[6] The two together had one son named Sultanzade Abdul Hamid Bey, born on 22 March 1835, who died young in 1837.[7][8][9]

After Saliha's death in 1843, he married Ismet Hanım.[10] The two together had one son, Damat Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha, who married Seniha Sultan, daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I, and the granddaughter of Mahmud II. He was the father of Sultanzade Sabahaddin.[11] He is also the ancestor of Ziya Songülen.

Death

Hali Rifat Pasha died at Istanbul on 3 March 1856.[12]

See also

References
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  2. Aksan, Virginia (January 14, 2014). Ottoman Wars, 1700-1870: An Empire Besieged. Routledge. p. 409. ISBN 978-1-317-88403-3.
  3. Shaw, Stanford J.; Shaw, Ezel Kural (May 27, 1977). History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 2, Reform, Revolution, and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey 1808-1975, Volume 11. Cambridge University Press. pp. 36, 69, 487. ISBN 978-0-521-29166-8.
  4. Mustafa Çağatay Uluçay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara, Ötüken. p. 190.
  5. Ottoman Women in Public Space. BRILL. May 9, 2016. p. 240. ISBN 978-9-004-31662-1.
  6. Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 553. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
  7. Lutfî, Ahmet (1999). Vak'anüvı̂s Ahmed Lûtfı̂ Efendi tarihi, Volumes 4-5. Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı. p. 827. ISBN 978-9-750-80074-0.
  8. Aynur, Hatice (1995). Saliha Sultan'ın düğününü anlatan surnâmeler, 1834: Kısım. İnceleme ve tenkitli metin. Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. p. 8.
  9. Haskan, Mehmet Nermi (2008). Eyüp Sultan tarihi, Volume 2. Eyüp Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları. p. 463. ISBN 978-9-756-08704-6.
  10. Malatyalı, Ahmet; Çalışan, Irfan (2005). Tarihi, kültürü ve sanatıyla Eyüpsultan Sempozyumu IX: tebliğler. Eyüp Belediyesi Kültür ve Turizm Müdürlüğü. ISBN 978-9-756-08702-2.
  11. Taglia, Stefano (April 4, 2015). Intellectuals and Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Young Turks on the Challenges of Modernity. Routledge. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-317-57863-5.
  12. Haskan, Mehmet Nermi (2001). Yüzyıllar boyunca Üsküdar, Volume 3. Üsküdar Belediyesi. p. 1402. ISBN 978-9-759-76063-2.
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