Gülüstü Hanım

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In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Gülüstü, the title is Hanım, and there is no family name.
Gülüstü Hanım
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BornPrincess Fatma Chachba
Diedc. 1865
Eyüp Palace, Eyüp, Constantinople (now Istanbul), Ottoman Empire
Burial
Gülüstü Hanım Mausoleum, Fatih Mosque, Fatih, Istanbul
Spouse
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(m. 1855; died 1861)​
Issue
Names
Turkish: Gülüstü Hanım
Ottoman Turkish: کلستو خانم‎
HouseShervashidze (by birth)
Ottoman (by marriage)
FatherTahir Chachba
ReligionSunni Islam

Gülüstü Hanım (Turkish pronunciation: [ɟylysˈty]; Ottoman Turkish: کلستو خانم‎; born Princess Fatma Chachba; died c. 1865) was the nineteenth wife of Sultan Abdulmejid I, and the mother of Sultan Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Life[]

Born as Fatma Chachba,[1] Gülüstü Hanım was a member of the Abkhazian princely family, Shervashidze.[2] Her father was Prince Tahir Bey Chachba.[1][3] She was the granddaughter of Kelesh Ahmed-Bey Shervashidze, head of state of the Principality of Abkhazia.[4]

Gülüstü married Abdulmejid in 1855, and was given the title of "Fourth Ikbal". On 30 July 1856, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Mediha Sultan.[5][6] Five years later on 14 January 1861, she gave birth to her second child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Vahideddin (future Mehmed VI).[7]

Death[]

After Abdulmejid's death in 1861, Gülüstü Hanım moved to a waterfront palace located at Eyüp, where she died in 1865, in an outbreak of cholera.[8] She was buried in her own mausoleum located in Fatih Mosque, Fatih, Constantinople, today in Istanbul.[9]

After her death, her daughter Mediha Sultan was entrusted in the care of Verdicenan Kadın,[5][10][6] and her son Mehmed was entrusted in the care of Şayeste Hanım.[8]

Issue[]

Name Birth Death Notes
Mediha Sultan 31 July 1856[5][11][12] 7 November 1928[13][12] married twice, and had issue, a son
Mehmed VI 14 January 1861[11][14] 16 May 1926[14] married five times, and had issue, one son and three daughters

In literature[]

  • Gülüstü is a character in Hıfzı Topuz's historical novel Abdülmecit: İmparatorluk Çökerken Sarayda 22 Yıl: Roman (2009).[15]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Açba 2004, p. 107 n. 17.
  2. ^ Açba 2004, p. 106.
  3. ^ Aredba, Rumeysa; Açba, Edadil (2009). Sultan Vahdeddin'in San Remo günleri. Timaş Yayınları. p. 73. ISBN 978-9-752-63955-3.
  4. ^ Tuna, Mahinur (2007). İlk Türk kadın ressam: Mihri Rasim (Müşfik) Açba : 1886 İstanbul-1954 New-York. As Yayın. p. 28. ISBN 978-9-750-17250-2.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Uluçay 2011, p. 229.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Kahya 2012, p. 4.
  7. ^ Tucker, Spencer (2005). World War I: Encyclopedia, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 779. ISBN 978-1-851-09420-2.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Bardakçı, Murat (2017). Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. Oxford University Press. pp. 5, 6. ISBN 978-9-774-16837-6.
  9. ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 602-3.
  10. ^ Sakaoğlu 2009, p. 630.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b Paşa 1960, p. 146.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b Brookes 2010, p. 284.
  13. ^ Uluçay 2011, p. 231.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b Brookes 2010, p. 291.
  15. ^ Hıfzı Topuz (2009). Abdülmecit: İmparatorluk Çökerken Sarayda 22 Yıl: Roman. Remzi Kitabevi. p. 145. ISBN 978-975-14-1357-4.

Sources[]

  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
  • Açba, Leyla; Açba, Harun (2004). Bir Çerkes prensesinin harem hatıraları. L & M. ISBN 978-9-756-49131-7.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kandınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-6-051-71079-2.
  • Kahya, Özge (2012). Sultan Abdülmecid'in kızı Mediha Sultan'ın hayatı (1856–1928).
  • Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
  • Paşa, Ahmed Cevdet (1960). Tezâkir. [2]. 13 - 20, Volume 2. Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi.
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