Hümaşah Sultan (daughter of Murad III)
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| Hümaşah Sultan | |
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| Born | c. 1565 Manisa, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | fl. 1648 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey) |
| Burial | Murad III Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul |
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| Dynasty | Ottoman |
| Father | Murad III |
| Mother | Safiye Sultan |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Hümaşah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: هماشاہ سلطان, "Phoenix of the Şah"; also Hüma Sultan; c. 1565 - fl. 1648), was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1595) and Safiye Sultan, as well as sister of Sultan Mehmed III (reign 1595–1603) of the Ottoman Empire.
Early life and marriage[edit]
Hümaşah Sultan was probraly the firstborn child of Murad III and Safiye Sultan. She maybe take her name by Hümaşah Sultan, who presented Safiye to Murad. Alderson calls her Hüma and notes that she was successively married to Sokollu Kara Mustafa Pasha (died 1580)[1], and Nişar Mustafazade Mehmed Pasha (died 1586)[1]. As it is known that Lala Mustafa Pasha was married to granddaughter of Süleyman I named Hümaşah, it is clear that Alderson mixed them up by mistake. On the other hand, historian Nedcet Sakaoğlu calls her Hümaşah, confirms marriage with Nişar Mustafa Pasha and concludes that this Sultana was born quite early — even when her father was Şehzade, and since Şehzade Murad had only one concubine, Safiye Hatun, Sakaoğlu figures out it must be that Hümaşah was her daughter[2].
Additionally, Venetian ambassador reported that Nurbanu Sultan wanted to marry her second grand-daughter to the Kapıcıbaşı Mahmud Bey (which is known to be Ayşe Sultan),.[3] thus implying that Sultan Murad had a daughter who was older than Ayşe.
Later life[edit]
After the death of Hümaşah's first husband, many sources do not mention anything more about her or her later life, thus questioning the date of her death.
Citation from Venetian ambassador from August 16, 1590 says[4]:
The marriages of two daughters of the sultan has been arranged - the first is beautiful and will marry the beylerbeyi of Greece; the other is humpback, but not a monster, and she will marry Siyavuş-paşa.
As Murad III's daughter Ayşe was married at the moment, one of the referred daughters is surely Hümaşah. Additionally, by report made in 1590, it is said that beylerbeyi of Greece, named Mehmed Pasha, is close men of the Sultan and one of his favourites at the court[5]. Mehmed Pasha died at the end of reign of Murad III. Also, report from 1600 says that Siyavuş Pasha refused to marry sultan's daughter after death of his wife, sultan's sister, which means that marriage with the second-mentioned Sultana never happened[6]. Refused Sultana could be Fatma, who will marry for the first time in 1593.
Another citation from April 19, 1591 says[7]:
In 1591 the rich Hümaşah Ayşe, the daughter of Mihrimah and Rüstem, proposed to pay the expenses of one hundred galleys for six months, if her son-in-law Çiğalazâde Sinan-paşa was made Kapudan Paşa. At the same time, a sister of prince Mehmed tried to obtain the same office for her brother-in-law Mehmed-paşa.
We can figure out that marriage that was arranged was concluded and that sister of prince Mehmed is at the time wife of beylerbeyi of Greece, Mehmed Pasha. It very easily could be Hümaşah.
There are several older sources that state that Murad III's daughter was married to Grand vizier Serdar Ferhad Pasha;[8] while some specify and say that it was the daughter of Safiye Sultan herself.[9] How Safiye Sultan's other daughters Ayşe and Fatma were already married at a time, it must have been Hümaşah. It is also known that Ferhad Pasha was one of Safiye Sultan's most loyal supporters next to Ibrahim Pasha and Boşnak Halil Pasha, which was probably strengthened by his marriage to her daughter. After he fell out of Mehmed III's favor, with Safiye's help, he hoped to outplay rivals and achieve the forgiveness of the Sultan, but eventually Ferhad's rivals found out where he was hiding through various intrigues, and he was executed.
Hümaşah Sultan was never mentioned during reign of her brother Mehmed III. It is possible that after the execution of her husband she remarried and lived away from the capital and the court, so even the ambassadors did not record anything about her.
Seventeenth century[edit]
Hümaşah was mentioned several times during seventeenth century. She was referred on February 28, 1606 as aunt of Sultan Ahmed I, when Ahmed ordered by request of his aunt regular salary payments of the city's eminent and corresponding allowances from the imperial kitchen[10]. Also, Hümaşah Sultan is mentioned in the palace documents in 1617, when Sultan Ahmet sent two kethüdas given to him by his aunt Hümaşah to capture the viceroy of Sancak Nigde, whose fate is unknown later[11]
In Harem registers, Hümaşah Sultan is mentioned as a widow of Nakkaş Hasan Pasha[12]. Nakkaş Hasan Pasha is thought to have been married to Nakkaş Hasan Pasha to Rükiye Sultan, but the evidence indicate otherwise. Nakkaş Hasan Pasha married this daughter of Murad III in early 1605. Her name was on a list of gifts and presents to Sultanas in 1642 and 1648 respectively, where she was also mentioned as widow of Nakkaş Hasan Pasha[13].
In popular culture[edit]
In the 2016 TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem, Hümaşah is portrayed by Turkish actress Vildan Atasever.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alderson 1956, table XXXII.
- ↑ Sakaoğlu 2015, p. 697.
- ↑ Anne Walthall, ed. (2008). Servants of the dynasty: palace women in world history. 7 of The California world history library (illustrated ed.). University of California Press. p. 93. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctt1ppzvr.
The queen mother arranged the marriages not only of her own daughters but also of the daughters of her son and his concubines. Thus the Venetian ambassador reported in 1583 that Nurbanu planned to marry her son Murad III's second daughter to the head of the palace guards.
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- ↑ Pedani, M.P. (2000). Safiye's Household and Venetian Diplomacy. Turcica, 32, p. 29.
- ↑ Bernardo, Lorenzo (1590). Relazioni di ambasciatori veneti al Senato, p. 343.
- ↑ Cappello, Girolamo (1600). Relazioni di ambasciatori veneti al Senato, p. 416.
- ↑ Pedani, M.P. (2000). Safiye's Household and Venetian Diplomacy. Turcica, 32, p. 29.
- ↑ Behr, C. von (1870). "Genealogie der in Europa regierenden Fürstenhäuser: nebst der Reihenfolge sämmtlicher Päpste und einem Anhange umfassend die Häuser Capet, Habsburg, Romanow und eine Übersicht der Kaiser und Könige von Italien und Deutschland" (in Deutsch). Leipzig: Tauchnitz. p. 160.
- ↑ Elli Kohen (2007). History of the Turkish Jews and Sephardim: memories of a past golden age. University Press of America. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-7618-3600-1. Search this book on
- ↑ İstanbul Bostancı Ocağı. Osmanlı Devletinin Saray Teşkilatı. Uzunçarşılı, İbrahim, p. 165.
- ↑ Yusuf Sarinay (2000). 82 Numaralı Mühimme Defteri'nin (H.1026-1027/1617-1618) Transkripsiyonu ve Değerlendirilmesi (in Türkçe). İstanbul: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü. p. 7. ISBN 9789751926494. Search this book on
- ↑ Dumas 2013, p. 480.
- ↑ Miović 2018, p. 168.
Sources[edit]
- Alderson, A. D. (1956). The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty. Oxford: Clarendon. Search this book on
- Pedani, M. P. (2000). "Safiye's Household and Venetian Diplomacy". Turcica. 32: 29. doi:10.2143/TURC.32.0.460.
- Peirce, Leslie Penn (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Studies in Middle Eastern History. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507673-8. Search this book on
- Kohen, Elli (2007). History of the Turkish Jews and Sephardim: Memories of a Past Golden Age. University Press of America. ISBN 9780761836001. Search this book on
- Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6. Search this book on
- Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara: Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5. Search this book on
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