Fatma Sultan (daughter of Murad III)

Fatma Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: فاطمہ سلطان‎ ) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1595) and Safiye Sultan, and sister of Sultan Mehmed III (reign 1595–1603) of the Ottoman Empire.

Fatma Sultan
The tomb of Fatma Sultan is located inside the Murad III Mausoleum, in Hagia Sophia Mosque, in Istanbul
DiedConstantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Murad III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia Mosque, Istanbul
SpouseDamad Halil Pasha
Damad Hızır Pasha
IssueA son
DynastyOttoman
FatherMurad III
MotherSafiye Sultan
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Fatma Sultan was a daughter of Sultan Murad III, and his consort Safiye Sultan.[1] She had two brothers, Sultan Mehmed III, and Şehzade Mahmud, and a sister, Ayşe Sultan.

Marriages

On 6 December 1593, Fatma, at Murad's behest, married Halil Pasha, Admiral of the Fleet.[2] The wedding took place at the Old Palace, and was celebrated in a seven-day ceremony.[3] The historian Mustafa Selaniki described the excitement of the crowds who turned out to watch the elaborate processional that carried Fatma, who was concealed behind a screen of red satin, to the palace of her new husband. Selaniki wrote that at the wedding of Fatma "skirtfulls of shiny new coins were distributed... those who did not receive any sighed with longing."[4] According to the historian Hoca Sadeddin Efendi, her dowry was 300,000 ducats.[2] As part of the celebrations, the members of the Imperial Council were given a seven-day leave.[2]

In 1595, Halil Pasha did not sail with the fleet. This was particularly because neither Safiye nor Fatma were willing to let him leave Istanbul. Their reluctance probably stemmed from the fact that Fatma was pregnant. She gave birth to a son in October 1595, which strengthened the new Sultan Mehmed's and Safiye's affection for Halil Pasha.[5]

After Halil Pasha's death in 1603, she married Hızır Pasha in December 1604.[6] He was then in charge of securing the passes on the Danube. In order to consummate his marriage, Hızır Pasha was immediately called back to the capital and given a seat in the imperial council with the rank of full vizier.[7]

Death and legacy

When Fatma died, she was buried in her father's mausoleum, located at the courtyard of the Hagia Sophia Mosque, Istanbul, and recorded, among other things, as Halil Pasha's wife.[2]

She owned a translation of "The Ascension of Propitious Stars and Sources of Sovereignty" (Matali' us-sa'ade ve menabi' us-siyade).[8]

References
  1. Peirce 1993, p. 95.
  2. Uluçay 2011, p. 76.
  3. Blake, Stephen P. (February 11, 2013). Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman Empires. Cambridge University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-107-03023-7.
  4. Peirce 1993, p. 123.
  5. Cuerva, Ruben Gonzalez; Koller, Alexander (August 28, 2017). A Europe of Courts, a Europe of Factions: Political Groups at Early Modern Centres of Power (1550-1700). BRILL. p. 105. ISBN 978-9-004-35058-8.
  6. Tezcan, Baki (November 2001). Searching for Osman: A reassessment of the deposition of the Ottoman Sultan Osman II (1618-1622). pp. 328 n. 18.
  7. Börekçi, Günhan (2010). Factions and Favorites at the Courts of Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603-17) and his Immediate Predecessors. pp. 236 n. 70.
  8. Fetvacı, Emine (2013). Picturing History at the Ottoman Court. Indiana University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-253-00678-3.

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