Zübeyde Sultan

Zübeyde Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: زبیدہ سلطان‎; 29 March 1728 – 4 June 1756) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed III (reign 1703 – 1730) and half-sister of Sultans Mustafa III (reign 1757 – 1774) and Abdul Hamid I (reign 1774 – 1789) of the Ottoman Empire.

Zübeyde Sultan
Born29 March 1728
Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died4 June 1756(1756-06-04) (aged 28)
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Imperial Ladies Mausoleum, Yeni Mosque, Eminönü, Istanbul
Spouse
Damad Süleyman Pasha
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​
(m. 1748; died 1748)​

Damad Numan Pasha
​
(m. 1749)​
Full name
Turkish: Zübeyde Sultan
Ottoman Turkish: زبیدہ سلطان‎
DynastyOttoman
FatherAhmed III
MotherEmine Muslihe Kadın
ReligionSunni Islam

Life

Zübeyde Sultan was born on 28[1] or 29 March[2] 1728, Her father was Sultan Ahmed III,[3][4] and her mother was Emine Muslihe Kadın.[5] She had a full sister named Ayşe Sultan, nine years older than her.[6]

Her father having been dethroned in 1730, she grew up at the Old Palace but was able to live in comfort,[1] as he had had the farmstead of Dilsiz Mehmed Ağa, situated near Edirne, and thus its incomes, allocated to her.[3][1]

Her cousin Mahmud I had a yalı, or waterfront manse, built for her at the precincts of Eyüp[3] in around August 1747.[4]

On 6 January 1748, during Mahmud’s reign, Zübeyde was married firstly to Süleyman Pasha,[4][7] Beylerbey (governor – general) of Anatolia and Vizier, who, though, died soon after, some six months into the marriage.[8] Thus, she was married secondly, within the year, on 6 January 1749, to Numan Pasha,[4][9] kapıcılar kethüdası, or head of the Imperial Palace Guards, Sanjak-Bey (provincial governor) of Thessaloniki and Kavala, and Vizier.[3][8] Her husband would go on to serve in various other provincial posts.[8]

Turkish historian Mustafa Çağatay Uluçay describes the princess as a “philanthropist, protector of the poor, who read day and night”.[3]

Death

Like the majority of her siblings, Zübeyde Sultan did not live long, dying of natural causes at the age of twenty-eight,[8] on 4 June[4] 1756.[10] She was entombed in the Imperial Ladies Mausoleum, located at Yeni Mosque, Istanbul.[3][4][8]

Ancestry

References
  1. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 321.
  2. Râşid 2013, p. 1588.
  3. Uluçay 1985, p. 92.
  4. Haskan 2008, p. 393.
  5. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 420.
  6. Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı 1976, p. 9.
  7. Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı 1976, p. 139.
  8. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 322.
  9. Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı 1976, p. 140.
  10. Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı 1976.

Sources
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 303. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
  • Târîh-i Râşid ve Zeyli (Râşid Mehmed Efendi ve Çelebizâde İsmaîl Âsım Efendi) (1071-1141/1660-1729) Cilt I-III. 2013. ISBN 978-6-055-24512-2.
  • Haskan, Mehmed Nermi (2008). Eyüp Sultan tarihi – Volume 1. Eyüp Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları. ISBN 978-9-756-08704-6.
  • Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (1985). Padışahların kadınları ve kızları. Türk Tarihi Kurumu Yayınları. p. 220.
  • Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı, Süleyman Efendi (1976). Aktepe, M. Münir (ed.). Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı Süleyman Efendi târihi Mürʼiʼt-tevârih-Volume 1. Edebiyat Fakültesi Matbaası.
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