Fatma Sultan (daughter of Abdulmejid I)

Fatma Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: فاطمه سلطان‎; 1 November 1840 – 26 August 1884) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and his sixth consort Gülcemal Kadın and the full sister of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire.

Fatma Sultan
Born1 November 1840
Beşiktaş Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died26 August 1884(1884-08-26) (aged 43)
Baltalimanı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial
New Mosque, Istanbul
SpouseAli Galip Pasha
Nuri Pasha
Issue
  • Cemile Hanımsultan
  • Sultanzade Mehmed Fuad Bey
  • Emine Lütfiye Hanımsultan
Full name
Fatma binti Abdulmejid Han
DynastyOttoman
FatherAbdulmejid I
MotherGülcemal Kadın
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Fatma Sultan was on 1 November 1840 in the Beşiktaş Palace. Her father was Sultan Abdulmejid I, and her mother was Gülcemal Kadın, a Bosnian. She was the second child and eldest daughter born to her father, and the eldest daughter born to her mother, hence the full sister of her younger siblings Refia Sultan and Sultan Mehmed V.[1] After her mother's death in 1851, she and her siblings were adopted by Abdulmejid's first wife, Servetseza Kadın.[2][3]

In accordance with this tradition, Fatma Sultan started to learn the Quran on 20 September 1847 with her sister Refia Sultan, half-sister Cemile Sultan her half-brothers Murad V and Abdul Hamid II. [4]

First marriage

Engagement

When Fatma Sultan came of age, the sons of some of the most exalted personages aspired to the hand of the young princess. Mustafa Reşid Pasha and more especially his wife Adile Hanım, who was excessively proud, were particularly anxious that their son, Ali Galib Pasha, should become the Sultan's son-in-law. The other ministers wished to please the Grand vizier, and tried to induce their master to give the hand of the princess to the son of their colleague. After much pressing, the Sultan consented to the proposed union.[5]

Wedding

Abdulmejid first purchased Mustafa Reşid Paşa's palace and waterfront house in Baltalimani at a cost of 250,000 gold liras. He then gave freehold possession of these estates to his daughter Fatma Sultan, leaving the Pasha with a vast fortune to pay for the wedding expenses. Ali Galip Bey was appointed to Pasha's rank and made a member of the Meclis-i Vâlâ (Supreme Court).[6]

The marriage which coincided with the most fervent period of the Crimean War, took place on 7 August 1854 in the Çırağan Palace. The bridal procession of Fatma Sultan left this palace, and traveled with "pomp and circumstance" partly by land and partly by sea, conveying the bride to Baltalimanı Palace.[6][2] The wedding lasted seven days, and was consummated on 10 August.[7]

Issue

The next year she gave birth to a daughter, Cemile Hanımsultan, who died in infancy.[8]

Second marriage

After the death of Ali Galib Pasha in 1858 she married, Mehmed Nuri Pasha, son of Arif Pasha on 24 March 1859. The two had two children, Sultanzade Mehmed Fuad Bey and Emine Lütfiye Hanımsultan. Both of them died young.[9][10] Following the dubious conviction and exile to Arabia of her husband for complicity in the death of Sultan Abdulaziz, Fatma withdrew to her palace.[1] In 1878, she and her siblings including her brothers Prince Ahmed Kemaleddin, and Prince Selim Süleyman, and sister Seniha Sultan, were all involved in the Ali Suavi incident with the objective of restoring Murad to the throne.[11] She was widowed at his death in 1883.[12]

Baltalimani Palace

The Grand Vizier Mustafa Reşid Pasha, the leader of Tanzimat, designed the Baltalimani Beach Palace in 1847, to be built next to the large wooden mansion in Balta harbor, to the Italian architect Gaspare Trajano Fossati. The building, also known as Resit Pasha Beach Palace, was built by Sarkis Balyan in the 1860s. This palace, which is quite magnificent compared to other beach palaces in its period, was bought from Reşit Pasha by the Treasury-i Hassa, to be allocated to the couple, while the daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I, Fatma Sultan and the son of Reşid Pasha, Galip Bey. Fatma Sultan and her husband settled in Baltalimanı in 1853. [13]

Death

She died on 26 August 1884 and is buried in the mausoleum of Sultan Murad V at the New Mosque, Istanbul.[9][14]

See also

Ancestry

References
  1. Brookes 2010, p. 281.
  2. Uluçay 2011, p. 218.
  3. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 604-5.
  4. Kolay 2017, p. 681.
  5. Hanim 1872, p. 235.
  6. Sakaoğlu 1992, p. 169.
  7. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 608.
  8. Uluçay 2011, p. 219.
  9. Uluçay 2011, p. 219-20.
  10. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 613-13.
  11. Brookes 2010, p. 76 and n. 51, 52.
  12. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 612.
  13. Kahya 2012, p. 56.
  14. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 613.

Sources
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  • The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
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  • Kahya, Özge (2012). Sultan Abdülmecid’in kızı Mediha Sultan’ın hayatı (1856-1928).
  • Kolay, Arif (2017). Osmanlı Saray Hayatından Bir Kesit: Ali Akyıldız ve Mümin ve Müsrif Bir Padişah Kızı Refia Sultan.
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