Hatice Sultan (daughter of Selim I)

Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim I

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
Fülane HanımsultanDynastyOttomanFatherSelim IMotherHafsa SultanReligionIslam

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.

Biography

Hatice'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. 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 (dead in 1582, buried in Hürrem Sultan's Turbesi)
Fülane Hanımsultan

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

References

^ ^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)