Ayşe Sultan (wife of Osman II)
| Ayşe Sultan | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Imperial Consort) | |||||
| Tenure | January 1620 – 20 May 1622 | ||||
| Died | c. 1640 Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | ||||
| Spouse | Osman II | ||||
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| House | House of Osman (by marriage) | ||||
Ayşe Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: عایشه سلطان; died c. 1640) was the consort of Sultan Osman II of the Ottoman Empire.[1][2][3]
Life[]
Her name appears in privy purse registers from 1619 on,[4] but nothing is known about her except her name.[3][1]
According to Peirce, Ayşe was Osman's haseki sultan. But according to Piterberg, Osman II did not have a haseki and Ayşe was just "a politically insignificant consort." Even though her status was debatable, it is clear that Ayşe could not become a prominent female figure like other haseki sultans. Also, a governess (daye hatun, lit. wet-nurse) who was appointed as a stand-in valide, could not counterbalance the contriving of Mustafa I's mother in the Old Palace. This condition made the conspious absence of a female power basis in the harem during her spouse's reign, the basic and exceptional weakness from which Osman II suffered.[5]
After Osman's death in 1622 she stayed in the imperial palace.[1] Privy Purse records her presence lastly in 1640.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b c Peirce 1993, p. 106.
- ^ Gabriel Piterberg (2003). An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. University of California Press. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-520-93005-6.
- ^ a b Uluçay 2011, p. 88.
- ^ a b Peirce 1993, p. 311.
- ^ Piterberg, Gabriel (2003). An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. California: University of California Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-520-23836-2.
Sources[]
- Peirce, Leslie P. (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508677-5.
- Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların Kadınları ve Kızları. Ötüken Neşriyat.
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