Fatma Sultan (daughter of Bayezid II)

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Fatma Sultan ("daughter of the Prophet) was daughter of Bayezid II and Nigar Hatun.

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Fatma Sultan
Bornc. 1468
Amasya, Ottoman Empire
Died Bursa, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Şehzade Ahmed Mosque , Bursa
Spouse
    Mirza Mehmed Pasha
    (m. 1482)
      Mustafa Pasha
      (m. 1489;died 1503)
        Güzelce Hasan Bey
        (m. 1504)
IssueIsfendiyaroglu Mehmed Bey
Mehmed Çelebi
Haci Ahmed Bey
a daughter
Dynasty Ottoman
Father Bayezid II
Mother Nigar Hatun
Religion Sunni Islam

Biography

She was also known as Sofu Fatma Sultan. She was married according to some sources to Isfendiyaroglu Mirza Mehmed Pasha (d. 1530), son of Kyzyl Ahmed Bey. With him she had a son Mehmed Bey, who in 1509 married Selim I's daughter, Gevherhan Sultan. Mirza Mehmed Pasha remarried, and so did Fatma Sultan, which most probably indicates that marriage ended with divorce. [1]

She married secondly a son of Koca Davud Pasha, Mustafa Pasha, in 1489. [2] The marriage ended with Pasha's death in 1503. [3]

She was lastly married to Dâmâd Güzelce Hasan Bey [4] in 1504 and had three children with him: Sultanzade Mehmed Çelebi (who later married Ayşe Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Alemşah); Haci Ahmed Bey(died in October 1588) and an unnamed daughter, who later married Ahmed Bey, son of Ali Bey and Fatma Hanımsultan (daughter of her sister Ayşe Sultan).

Death

After the execution of her brother Şehzade Korkud, Fatma Sultan plunged into mourning in Bursa. It is not known when she died, but it is known that she died during the reign of her nephew Sultan Suleyman.
It was reccorded that she has suffered from hemorrhoids for three years, and when a new disease had started,she had no strength to endure the pain and demanded a good doctor to be sent from the palace. [5]

She was a very charitable person and left all her possessions to the poor when she died. Fatma made two foundations in 1501 and 1509. She was buried in the tomb of her half-brother Şehzade Ahmed in Bursa.

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References

  1. Öztuna, 2006 , p. 210.
  2. Süreyya, 1969, p. 169.
  3. "DÂVUD PAŞA, Koca - TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi". Islamansiklopedisi.org.tr. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  4. Uluçay 2011, p. 49.
  5. Hülya, Tezcan (2006).Osmanlı sarayının çocukları: şehzadeler ve hanım sultanların yaşamları giysileri, p. 29.