Bülbül Hatun

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Bülbül Hatun
Muradiye Complex, exterior 2.jpg
The tomb of Bülbül Hatun is located inside the Muradiye Complex, in Bursa
Diedc. 1515
Bursa, Ottoman Empire
(present day Bursa, Turkey)
Burial
Muradiye Complex, Bursa
SpouseBayezid II
IssueŞehzade Ahmet
Şehzade Mahmud
Hundi Hatun
ReligionSunni Islam

Bülbül Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: بلبل خاتون‎; died c. 1515) was a consort of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire.

Life[]

Bülbül Hatun married Bayezid when he was still a prince and the governor of Amasya. She had three children, two sons, Şehzade Ahmet and Şehzade Mahmud, and one daughter, Hundi Hatun, who married Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha.[1]

According to Turkish tradition, all princes were expected to work as provincial governors as a part of their training. Ahmed was sent to Çorum in 1480, and then to Amasya, and Bülbül accompanied him.[2]

She built and endowed a mosque and a soup kitchen in Ladik. At Amasya, she built another mosque, a school and a fountain. In Bursa she had endowed and built a religious college.[3][4] She endowed a portion of her properties to the Enderun mosque in 1505.[5] After Şehzade Mahmud's death in 1507, she built a tomb for him in Bursa.[6]

In 1512, she built another complex and endowed a significant amount of property for its expenses. She designated her son Ahmed, and upon his death Ahmed's eldest daughter and her daughters, as the administrator of the endowment. Bülbül's delegation of the regency of the endowment through the matrilineal line after his son Ahmed demonstrated that this endowment was established as a precautionary measure in the event that Ahmed failed in his bid for the sultanate.[5]

In 1513, Bülbül's granddaughter, Fatma Sultan, daughter of her son, Şehzade Mahmud, and her husband Mehmed Çelebi were placed under house arrest following the Kızılbaş leanings. She was only pardoned following Bülbül's intercession.[7]

Death[]

After the death of Şehzade Ahmed in 1513, Bülbül Hatun came to Bursa. She built a tomb for Ahmed, in which she was too buried at her death in 1515.[3][4][8]

Issue[]

Together with Bayezid, Bülbül had three children:

References[]

  1. ^ Al-Tikriti 2004, p. 315, 317.
  2. ^ Al-Tikriti 2004, p. 58 n. 35, 315.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Uluçay 1985, p. 44.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Peirce 1993, p. 50.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Karatas, Hasan (2011). The City as a Historical Actor: The Urbanization and Ottomanization of the Halvetiye Sufi Order by the City of Amasya in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. p. 53.
  6. ^ Yardımcı 1976, p. 48.
  7. ^ Al-Tikriti 2004, p. 318 n. 105.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b c Inventory 2003, p. 216.
  9. ^ Peirce 1993, p. 78.
  10. ^ Uluçay 1985, p. 44 n. 3.

Sources[]

  • Al-Tikriti, Nabil Sirri (2004). Şehzade Korkud (ca. 1468-1513) and the Articulation of Early 16th Century Ottoman Religious Identity – Volume 1 and 2.
  • Peirce, Leslie P. (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-08677-5.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (1985). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Türk Tarih Kurumu.
  • Narodna biblioteka "Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiĭ. Orientalski otdel, International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture (2003). Inventory of Ottoman Turkish documents about Waqf preserved in the Oriental Department at the St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library: Registers. Narodna biblioteka "Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiĭ.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Yardımcı, İlhan (1976). Bursa tarihinden çizgiler ve Bursa evliyaları. Türdav Basım, Yayım.
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