Hatun
Hatun or Khatun (Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰍𐰣, romanized: Katun, Ottoman Turkish: خاتون, romanized: Hatun or قادین romanized: Kadın, Uzbek: xotin, Persian: خاتون khātūn; Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠲᠤᠨ, khatun, хатан khatan; Urdu: خاتون, Hindi: ख़ातून khātūn; Bengali: খাতুন; Sylheti: ꠈꠣꠔꠥꠘ; Turkish: hatun; Azerbaijani: xatun) is a female title of nobility and counterpart to "khan" or "Khagan" prominently used in the Turkic Khaganates and in the subsequent Mongol Empire.
Honorific
In the Ottoman period, the term hatun was used as an honorific for women, roughly equivalent to the English term lady and a variant spelling of khatun. Like most Turkish honorifics, it is used after the first name. Women traditionally addressed as hatun include:
- Börte, wife of Genghis Khan
- Buluqhan Khatun, wife of Abaqa Khan
- Bulugan, wife of Temur Khan
- Chabi, wife of Kublai Khan
- Despina Khatun
- Doquz Khatun, wife of Hulagu Khan
- Erketü Qatun, wife of Altan Khan
- Mandukhai Khatun, wife of Dayan Khan
- Momine Khatun
- Oghul Qaimish, wife of Guyuk Khan
- Po Beg
- Radnashiri, wife of Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan
- Sapnara Khatun, judge and first non-white to be elected to the British Family Law Bar Association Committee. In 2006, she was appointed as a Recorder of the British Crown.
- Töregene Khatun, wife of Ogedei Khan
- Melike Mama Hatun Saltukid female ruler (reigned between 1191-1200)
- Gürcü Hatun (fl. 1237–1286), Georgian royal princess, wife of sultan Kaykhusraw II
- Mal Hatun (died 1323), wife of Sultan Osman I
- Gülçiçek Hatun (fl. 14th century), wife of Sultan Murad I
- Devlet Hatun (died 1411), wife of Sultan Bayezid I
- Gülfem Hatun (died 1561/1562), consort of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
- Şemsiruhsar Hatun (died 1613), consort of Sultan Murad III
- Nene Hatun (1857–1955), Turkish folk heroine
Valide Hatun
Valide Hatun was the title held by the "legal mother" of a ruling Sultan of the Ottoman Empire before the 16th century. Ottoman women who were traditionally addressed as Valide Hatun include:
- Nilüfer, Valide Hatun (1362–1383) for her son Murad I
- Devlet, Valide Hatun (1413–1414) for her son Mehmed I
- Emine, Valide Hatun (1421–1449) for her son Murad II
- Huma, Valide Hatun (1444–1446) for her son Mehmed II
- Emine Gülbahar, Valide Hatun (1481–1492) for Bayezid II
By the beginning of the 16th century, the title hatun for sultan's mother, princesses, and sultan's main consort was replaced by "sultan" and they started to carry it after their given names. This usage underlines the Ottoman conception of sovereign power as family prerogative.[1] Consequently, the title valide hatun also turned into valide sultan.
Given name
- Ayşe Hatun Önal, Turkish model
- Hatun Sürücü, German murder victim
See also
- List of Ottoman titles and appellations
- Khatun, variant spelling of the word
References
- Peirce, Leslie P. (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. ISBN 0-19-507673-7.