Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan

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Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan
Born1541
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died1598 (aged 56–57)[1]
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial
Complex of Şeyh ‘Azîz Mahmûd Hüdâyî Efendi, Üsküdar
Spouse
(m. 1557; died 1580)
(m. 1582; died 1583)
Ottoman Turkish: عائشه ھما شاہ سلطان
DynastyOttomanFatherRüstem PashaMotherMihrimah SultanReligionSunni Islam

Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan

Grand Vizier 1544–53, 1555–61). She was granddaughter of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520–1566) and his legal wife Hürrem Sultan
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Early life

Ayşe Humaşah Sultan

Hanımsultan as the daughter of the female members. Consequently, her sons and daughters, who as great-grandchildren in the female line of a Sultan should have neither titles nor be considered members of the imperial family, were instead entitled to the titles of Sultanzade for males and Hanımsultan for females, as was rule for the children of a Sultana.[6] Ayşe, her mother, and her cousin would all imitate the communication style ushered in by her grandmother Hürrem, whose letters to the Sultan are known for their colourfulness, charm, and smoothness.[7]

First marriage

Ayşe married two times. Her first husband was the future Grand vizier, Semiz Ahmed Pasha.[8][9] They married on 27 November 1557,[8] when she was sixteen. The two together had ten children.[10][4] Her mother used to send two thousand ducats to the couple every week.[4] Semiz Ahmed Pasha became grand vizier in 1579 until his death on 27 April 1580.[8]

Second marriage

After Ahmet's death, Ayşe married

Kizlar Agha Mehmed Agha, served as her agent, while Miralem Mahmud Agha served as Feridun Pasha's agent. The marriage was performed by Sheikh-ul-Islam Çivizade Hacı Mehmet Efendi. Her dowry was thirty five thousand gold coins.[13][14] The marriage, however, lasted only eleven months because the pasha died on 16 March 1583.[15]

Third marriage

In 1590 Ayşe Hümaşah married Mahmud Hudayi Pasha. This marriage ended with her own death in 1598.[2]

Political affairs

After her mother's death in 1578, the Ragusans turned to her, with a petition to act in their favour and support them in a manner her mother did, whose death they mourned deeply. In fact, all of this they reported to Behram Kethüda, who by sultan's order was to attend to Ayşe after Mihrimah's death. She and her husband Semiz Pasha shared disposition towards the Ragusans. When her son Mehmed Bey was installed as sancakbey of Herzegovina in 1592, she soon wrote him a letter of recommendation for the Ragusans.

Safiye Sultan to oppose Nurbanu Sultan and her allies.[18]

Last years

In 1595, Ayşe Sultan went for a pilgrimage.[19] In 1598, she commissioned a fountain in Üsküdar.[20] She died in 1598 and she was buried in the complex of Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, Üsküdar.[10]

Issue

Ayşe Humaşah had ten children by her first husband, five sons and five daughters:

Sons

Daughters

  • Saliha Hanımsultan[4] (1561–1580)[16] married in October 1576 to Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha.[23][4] Mihrimah Sultan spent 70.000 gold coins for her wedding. They had a son, Cağaloğlu Mahmud Pasha (died in 1643, who married two daughters of Sultan Mehmed III, first on 10 February 1612 Hatice Sultan, and after her death in 1613 her half-sister Hümaşah Sultan, in October 1613), and a daughter, Ayşe Hanım (who married her maternal uncle Sultanzade Abdurrahman Bey and had a son, Semiz Mehmed Pasha).
  • Safiye Hanımsultan. In March 1581, after her older sister Saliha's death in 1580, she married to Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha.[17][23] They had two sons, Mehmed Bey and Hüseyn Bey, and a daughter.
  • Hatice Hanımsultan, married Kapıcıbaşı Mahmud Bey in December 1584. Mahmud was initially supposed to marry Ayşe Sultan, granddaughter of his patroness Nurbanu Sultan, but after Nurbanu's death in 1583, the bride's mother, Safiye, married him to Hatice instead, so that she could marry her daughter to a candidate of her choice.
  • Ayşe Hanımsultan.
  • Fatma Hanımsultan, married in March 1596 to Yemenli Hasan Pasha. She had two sons and a daughter.

In popular culture

References

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