Hatice Sultan (daughter of Selim I)

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Hatice Sultan
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Spouse
Kapudan Iskender Pasha
(m. 1509; died 1515)

Coban Mustafa Pasha
(m. 1517; died 1529)
IssueFirst marriage
Sultanzade Mehmed Bey
Sultanzade Süleyman Bey
Sultanzade Ali Bey
Sultanzade Osman Bey
Nefise Hanımsultan
Second marriage
Sultanzade Mehmed Şah Bey
Hanim Hanimsultan
At least one other daughter
DynastyOttoman
FatherSelim I
MotherHafsa Sultan
ReligionIslam

Hatice Sultan

Hafsa Sultan. She was the sister of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
.

Biography

Hatice's birth date is unknown, but she had to be 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. She was buried next to her sister Hafize Sultan.

Issue

Hatice 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

By her second marriage, Hatice had a son and at least two daughters:

  • Sultanzade Mehmed Şah Bey
  • Hanim Hanımsultan
  • At least one other daughter

Depictions in literature and popular culture

In 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

  • 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

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