Mahfiruz Hatun
Mahfiruz Hatun | |
|---|---|
| Born | Maria, Eudoxia or Hatice c. 1590 |
| Died | 26 October 1620 Edirne, the Ottoman Empire |
| Cause of death | Possibly murdered[citation needed] |
| Resting place | Eyüp Cemetery, Istanbul |
| Known for | Valide Sultan |
| Spouse | Ahmed I |
| Children | Osman II Şehzade Huseyn Şehzade Bayezid Şehzade Mehmed |
| Relatives | Mahidevran Hatun Şemsiruhsar Hatun Alime Sultan Saçıbağlı Hatun |
Mahfiruz Hatice Sultan (fully Devletlu İsmetlu Mahfiruz Hatice Valide Sultan Aliyyetü'ş-Şân Hazretleri; c. 1590 – 26 October 1620) was a wife of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1618–1622). She was the mother of Osman II, Şehzade Huseyn, Şehzade Bayezid and Şehzade Mehmed and was valide sultan from 26 February 1618 until her death on 26 October 1620.
Annotation
Her name was probably Mahfiruz (Mâh-i Fîrûz), also spelled "Mahfiruze" (Mâh Ferûza) or "Mah-Firuze" or "Mah-Firuz". It might have originally been Hatice. She is also referred to as "Hadice Mahfiruz", "Mahfiruz Hadice Valide Sultan"[1] or Hatîce Mâhfirûze Vâlide Sultan.
Origin
Her origin is unclear. She was either an Eastern Orthodox Christian or a Muslim.
- Some sources say that she was a Serbian originally named Eudoxia.[2]
- According to other sources she was the great-great-granddaughter of Mahidevran Sultan's brother Mustafa Pasha, great-granddaughter of Mustafa Pasha's second son Ahmed Bey, granddaughter of Ahmed Bey's son Ali Bey and daughter of Ali Bey's son Mirza Alkas Bey originally named Hatice and was married to Ahmed in 1603 by her great-grandaunt Servazad Hatun and Ahmed's mother Handan Sultan, who was an ethnic Circassian. She was the maternal niece of Ottoman Sultan Mustafa I's mother Alime Sultan and a relative of Saçbagli Sultan, a wife of Sultan Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire.[citation needed]
The theory of her being Greek has been refuted.[3][4]
Life
She was the first of Ahmed I's three women and bore him four sons, Osman II, Şehzade Bayezid, Şehzade Mehmed and Şehzade Huseyn.[5] With the birth of Osman, the couple's first child, Ahmed became the youngest Ottoman sultan to become father, and Osman was the first Ottoman first-born prince to be born in the Imperial capital of Istanbul.[6] She had the support of Safiye Sultan who married her to the Sultan Ahmet and of Servazad Hatun, her great aunt, and of Handan Valide Sultan her mother in law, and further more, the Sultan continued to see Mahfiruz at Kosem's great jalousy
Mahfiruz was alive when her son, Osman was finally enthroned in 1618 as Sultan Osman II after the deposition of the incompetent Mustafa I. She became the Valide Sultan one of the most powerful ones, she prevailed upon her son Osman to make him save the life of his uncle Mustafa who was at the same time her cousin, as being the son of Alime Sultan who was her aunt. She was known for her beauty, her green eyes and her strong character, she died in 1620 and was buried in Eyup, she received 3000 akces a day during the reign of her son Osman who loved her and respected her the same way Sehzade Mustafa loved his mother Mahidevran Sultan who was one of her relatives. She died in 1681, at Topkapi Palace
See also
- Ottoman Empire
- Ottoman dynasty
- Ottoman family tree
- List of Valide Sultans
- List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire
- Line of succession to the Ottoman throne
- Ottoman Emperors family tree (simplified)
- List of consorts of the Ottoman Sultans
References
- ^ Atsız ve Türk ülküsü 1990, p. 38: "Mahfiruz Hadice Valide Sultan"
- ^ Günseli İnal; Semiramis Arşivi (2005). Semiramis: Sultan'ın gözünden şenlik. YKY. p. 27. ISBN 978-975-08-0928-6.
[Osman II's mother the Serbian Evdoksiya known as Mahfiruz Sultan]
- ^ History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Stanford Jay Shaw, Cambridge University Press, p. 191
- ^ Turcica. Vol. 39–40. Éditions Klincksieck. 2007. p. 350.
The only other thing we know about her is that her name was probably Mah- firuz.16 That she was Greek and taught Osman Latin, Greek, and Italian are products of the imagination of an eighteenth century French novelist which surprisingly ...
- ^ Hadice Mah-firuz (1590 c. - 1620) con Osman II (1618- 1622). Ahmed I ebbe solo tre donne: Hadice Mah-firuz, da cui ebbe quattro figli (Osman, Bayezìd, Sùleyman e Hù- seyn);
- ^ Baki Tezcan (13 September 2010). The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World. Cambridge University Press. pp. 115–. ISBN 978-0-521-51949-6.
Sources
- Nazım Tektaş (2004). Harem'den taşanlar. Çatı. pp. 183–185. ISBN 978-975-8845-02-6.
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