Hatice Sultan[2] (Ottoman Turkish: خدیجه سلطان; respectful lady; ante 1494 - post 1543) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim I and his favorite concubine, Hafsa Sultan. She was the sister of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
| Hatice Sultan | |
|---|---|
 The sarcophagus of Hatice Sultan is located inside the Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque in Istanbul. | |
| Born | Ante 1494[1] Trabzon, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | Post 1543[1] Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Burial | Yavuz Selim Mosque, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Spouse |
Kapudan Iskender Pasha
(m. 1509; died 1515) |
| Issue | First marriage Sultanzade Mehmed Bey Sultanzade Süleyman Bey Sultanzade Ali Bey Sultanzade Osman Bey Nefise Hanımsultan Second marriage Sultanzade Mehmed Şah Bey Hanim Hanimsultan Fülane Hanımsultan |
| Dynasty | Ottoman |
| Father | Selim I |
| Mother | Hafsa Sultan |
| Religion | Islam |
Biography
editHatice's birth date is unknown, but she was born before 1494.[3] She was the daughter of Şehzade Selim (the future Selim I) and his concubine Hafsa. She married Damat Iskender Pasha in 1509, an Ottoman governor and later admiral who was executed in 1515.[3]
It had long been believed that Hatice Sultan subsequently married the Grand Vizier Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha. However, in the late 2000s, research conducted by the historian Ebru Turan revealed that this claim was not based on solid evidence, and that in fact no such marriage ever took place between them. As a result, historians now agree that Ibrahim married another woman, Muhsine Hatun, and not Hatice.[4] In 1517 she secondly married instead Çoban Mustafa Pasha, the son of Iskender Pasha and widower of Hatice's half-sister Şahzade Sultan. Hatice was widowed in 1529.
Hatice Sultan had her mosque built in Aksaray in 1543-44 and later died and was buried in a separate tomb next to her parents in the graveyard of Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque, in the Şehzadeler türbesi. She was buried next to her sister Hafize Hafsa Sultan.
Issue
editHatice Sultan had five sons and at least three daughters.[3][5]
By her first marriage, Hatice had four sons and a daughter:
- Sultanzade Mehmed Bey;
- Sultanzade Süleyman Bey;
- Sultanzade Ali Bey;
- Sultanzade Osman Bey;
- Nefise Hanımsultan. She was buried in the Şehzade Mosque with at least one of her brother.
By her second marriage, Hatice had a son and at least two daughters:
- Sultanzade Mehmed Şah Bey;
- Hanim Hanımsultan (dead in 1582, buried in Hürrem Sultan's Turbesi);
- Fülane Hanımsultan.
Depictions in literature and popular culture
editIn the TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Hatice Sultan is played by Turkish-German actress Selma Ergeç.[6] In the series, she is inaccurately portrayed as Ibrahim Pasha's wife and mother of his children, a fact which other historians have disputed. However, the series was produced in 2011, when the marriage had not yet been denied with certainty.[7]
Sources
edit- Necdet Sakaoğlu, Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler, Oğlak Yayıncılık, 2008
- Leslie Peirce, The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993
- Ebru Turan, The Marriage of Ibrahim Pasha (ca. 1495–1536): The Rise of Sultan Süleyman's Favorite to the Grand Vizierate and the Politics of the Elites in the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, Turcica, 2009
See also
edit- Ottoman family tree
- Ottoman Emperors family tree (simplified)
References
edit- ^ a b Sakaoğlu, Necdet [in Turkish] (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 202. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
- ^ Sometimes called Hatice Hanim Sultan
- ^ a b c Peirce, Leslie (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 304n62. ISBN 0-19-508677-5.
- ^ Turan, Ebru (2009). "The Marriage of Ibrahim Pasha (ca. 1495-1536): The Rise of Sultan Süleyman's Favorite to the Grand Vizierate and the Politics of the Elites in the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire". Turcica. 41: 3–36. doi:10.2143/TURC.41.0.2049287.
- Şahin, Kaya (2013). Empire and Power in the reign of Süleyman: Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World. Cambridge University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-107-03442-6.
- Peirce, Leslie (2017). Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire. Basic Books. p. 157.
Muhsine, granddaughter of an illustrious statesman, is now largely accepted as Ibrahim's wife.
- ^ Alderson, A. d (1956). Structure Of The Ottoman Dynasty.
- ^ "'Hatice Sultan woman of love'". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- ^ Ebru Turan, “The Marriage of Ibrahim Pasha (1495‒1536): The Rise of Sultan Suleyman's Favorite to the Grand Vizierate and the Politics of the Elites in the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire" Turcica 41 (2009)