Lütfi Pasha
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire | |
|---|---|
| In office 13 July 1539 – April 1541 | |
| Monarch | Suleiman I |
| Preceded by | Ayas Mehmed Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Hadım Suleiman Pasha |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1488 |
| Died | 27 March 1564 (aged 75-76) Didymoteicho |
| Nationality | Ottoman |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Esmehan Hanımsultan Sultanzade Ahmed Bey Sultanzade Abdi Bey Sultanzade Mahmud Bey |
| Ethnicity | Albanian |
Lütfi Pasha (
Suleyman I.[2]
In the TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Lütfi Pasha is played by Turkish actor Mehmet Özgür.
Life
Lütfi was an
Bayazid II
's harem-i hass, where he received a thorough indoctrination in Islam in order to advance in career.
His first appointment to service outside the palace was as
caliph
or not.
In 941/1534–5 he became Third Vizier. By this time, he had, by his own account, served in Selim I's wars against the
in 1521 and Rhodes in 1522.He became
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire in 1539 after the death of Ayas Mehmed Pasha (who held his position for three years following the execution of Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha). In 1541 he beat his wife, Şah Sultan, a half-sister of Suleiman, following her complaint of the pasha's overly harsh punishment of an adulteress. The princess divorced him with Suleiman's permission, and the sultan deposed him, naming Hadım Suleiman Pasha
the new Grand Vizier.
See also
References
- ^ İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish)
- ^ E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, M. Th. Houtsma, page 55
- ISBN 9781845112875. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
- ^ K. Dervishi "Kryeministrat dhe ministrat shqiptare ne 100 vjet"
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