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Şehzade Ömer
Born20 October 1621
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
DiedJanuary 1622
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Names
Şehzade Ömer
HouseHouse of Osman
FatherOsman II
MotherMeyl-i Şah Hatun
ReligionIslam

Şehzade Ömer (20 October 1621 - January 1622) was an Ottoman prince (Turkish: şehzade), son of Sultan Osman II.

The father of "Şehzade Ömer", Osman II.

Biography

Şehzade Ömer was born on 20 October 1621, to Sultan Osman II and his Russian concubine Meyl-i Şah Hatun.[1] On Osman's way back he had received the news that he had a son born. Now as a father, he had a successor and posed a threat against his brothers. He called her to Edirne where the two met and Osman had the chance to see his son, Ömer. To celebrate the auspicious moment and possibly to impress her, he ordered a festivity to be held. In the celebrations, imitation of the battle scenes was a part of the show. Yet the unimaginable happened and the baby suddenly died. Some history writers explain this event by the shock the infant had due to noises of the fired cannons.[2] Hammer gives a more striking reason for the baby's death: "To increase her joy festivities were held and some scenes of the Polish war were staged. The prince was present in these games and by the sudden shot from a rifle [by coincidence] he was wounded and died."[3] If this information Hammer brings without telling its source is true, then it means we are expected to believe that the baby, the existence of whom was so critical for Osman, was shot "accidentally". His only heir had disappeared.

Further reading

  • Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-508677-5 (paperback).
  • Yavuz Bahadıroğlu, Resimli Osmanlı Tarihi, Nesil Yayınları (Ottoman History with Illustrations, Nesil Publications), 15th Ed., 2009, ISBN 978-975-269-299-2 (Hardcover).

See also

References

  1. ^ Peirce mentions a certain Haseki Ayşe Sultan who apparently had lived in the palace during most of Osman‟s reign and later. It is possible but not certain that this is the same woman with Ömer‟s mother, the Russian. (Peirce, p.142)
  2. ^ Altınay, Ahmet Refik, Kadınlar Saltanatı, c.1, (Istanbul, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yay., 2000), p.103
  3. ^ Hammer, p.309

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