Münire Sultan (daughter of Abdulmejid I)

Münire Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: منیرہ سلطان‎; 9 December 1844 – 29 June 1862) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and his wife Verdicenan Kadın.

Münire Sultan
Born(1844-12-09)9 December 1844
Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died29 June 1862(1862-06-29) (aged 17)
Findiklı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Gülüstü Hanım Mausoleum, Fatih Mosque, Istanbul
Spouse
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    (m. 1854; died 1860)​
      Ibrahim Pasha
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      (m. 1861)​
      IssueSultanzade Alaeddin Bey
      DynastyOttoman (by birth)
      Muhammad Ali (by marriage)
      FatherAbdulmejid I
      MotherVerdicenan Kadın
      ReligionSunni Islam

      Early life

      Münire Sultan was born on 9 December 1844 at the Topkapı Palace. Her father was Sultan Abdulmejid I, and her mother was Verdicenan Kadın,[1] the daughter of Prince Kaytuk Giorgi Achba and Princess Yelizaveta Hanım.[2] She was the ninth daughter born to her father and the eldest child of her mother. She had a brother of Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin, three years younger than her.[3]

      First marriage

      Engagement

      In March 1854, a messenger from Istanbul announced the betrothal of Münire Sultan to Prince Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha, son of Abbas I of Egypt and his wife Mahivech Hanim. Large public celebrations were proclaimed and the viceroy was reported to be highly pleased with the news.[4][5] Ibrahim Pasha sent her a solitaire ring, solitaire earrings and a briolette as her betrothal gifts. There were also all sorts of perfumes covered with transparent lids and bowls of musk and mastic. There were crystal carafes containing syrup and porcelain vases from Saxony holding all sorts of preserves, and finally there were both eastern and western candies on plates of Chinese porcelain.[6] Her mother, Verdicenan Kadın gave some of these perfumes and morsels of food to other princesses, and also distributed them equally to the people in her entourage.[7][8] The engagement took place in the Şemsipaşa Palace.[9]

      Wedding

      The marriage took place on 10 August 1854 in at the Baltalimanı sahilhane, Istanbul.[10] The marriage was consummated on 31 July 1857.[11] The couple were given a palace located at Findiklı as their residence.[12]

      Second marriage

      Münire was widowed at Prince Ibrahim al-Hamy death in 1860 when his boat capsized while crossing the Bosphorus, near Bebek Palace. On 2 January 1861, she married secondly a namesake of her first husband, Damat Ibrahim Pasha,[1] son of Hasan Rıza Pasha of Chepni background. The couple had a son named Sultanzade Alaeddin Bey, born on 16 December 1861.[3]

      Death

      Münire Sultan died at the age of seventeen at her palace located at Findiklı on 29 June 1862, and was buried in the mausoleum of Gülüstü Hanım, Fatih Mosque, Istanbul.[1]

      Issue

      Together with Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Münire had one son:

      • Sultanzade Alaeddin Bey (Istanbul, 16 December 1861 - c. 1915);[3]

      Ancestry

      See also

      References
      1. Uluçay 2011, p. 225.
      2. Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. p. 34. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
      3. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 8.
      4. Toledano, Ehud R. (February 13, 2013). State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt. Cambridge University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-521-53453-6.
      5. Warner, Jayne L. (2001). Cultural Horizons: A festschrift in honor of Talat S. Halman, Volume 1. Syracuse University Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-815-68132-8.
      6. Isin, Mary (January 8, 2013). Sherbet and Spice: The Complete Story of Turkish Sweets and Desserts. I.B.Tauris. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-848-85898-5.
      7. Lewis, Reina; Micklewright, Nancy (July 1, 2006). Gender, Modernity and Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women's Writings: A Critical Sourcebook. I.B.Tauris. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-860-64956-1.
      8. McWilliams, Mark (July 1, 2012). Celebration: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2011. Oxford Symposium. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-903-01889-7.
      9. Pakalın, Mehmet Zeki (1954). Osmanli tarih deyimleri ve terimleri sözlüğü, Volume 3. Millî Eğitim Basımevi. p. 349.
      10. Badem, Candan (2010). “The” Ottoman Crimean War: (1853 - 1856). BRILL. pp. 320 n. 96. ISBN 978-9-004-18205-9.
      11. Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 623. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
      12. Mülayim, Selçuk; Akşit, İlhan (2005). Turkish Art and Architecture in Anatolia & Mimar Sinan. Akşit. p. 195. ISBN 978-9-757-03922-8.

      Sources
      • Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara: Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
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