#Musa Celebi

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This green and gold kaftan was first worn by Şehzade Mehmed in the twentieth episode of the third season of Magnificent Century. It is worn again by Şehzade Mustafa in the first episode of the fourth season.

The kaftan also appears on Musa Çelebi in the twenty-sixth episode of the second season of Magnificent Century: Kösem.

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Family of Yildirim Bayezid.

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"When the sun has set, no candle can replace it"

[ibrahimnerde]

What do you think the lack of gay characters? I wished they show the homosexuality in Ottoman empire . Who was actually gay and wasn’t shown?

Might be shocking but I am actually happy with the lack of lgbt characters.Look in order to portray lgbt character while talking or showcasing the Ottoman Empire, they wouldn’t be showcasing homosexuality…they’d be showcasing pederasty. Pederasty is a sexual relationship between a man and a young boy or simply a nonconsensual relationship with power imbalance (ie,sultan and servant). The difference between homosexuality and Pederasty is that homosexuality is a consensual relationship between two adult men/women. Pederasty is not. In Ottoman Empire homosexuality is okay as long as it is between high prolific person and a servant, prostitute…etc

So you want them to portray this? An old man humping on a young boy?

Who was possibly gay? Well Idk we will never know who was into boys but rumors has it that Mehmed II , Sulieman the magnificent and Murad IV were probably gay.

Mehmed II kept a young boy called Jacob Notaras for sex. There was also a story with a boy named Radu (later Radu III) that he tried to kiss but Radu managed to climb a tree and escape his fatass.

Sulieman one has to do with Ibrahim pasha. Ibrahim was a beautiful young slave boy that prince sulieman met and was “in love” with. Some say Ibrahim was an eunuch pasha that only married for political shit. Some said they wore each other clothes and were intimate. All this ties to the fact that Ibrahim became the grand vizier untraditionally and was favored. No proof of any intimacy with SS tho..

Murad IV is rumored to be gay too or bisexual for the Musa Celebi thing. It was said they were close and he was murad’s favorite who was brutally murdered and Murad mourned for his death. He called Musa his “beloved” in peoms. Evilya Celebi said he was there with Murad to replace the “beloved” aka Musa.

As I said we will never know if all of these things were true or not. There were definitely homosexual people in the empire (ie, Fatma sultan husband) but it was likely pure pederasty that these old fat men practiced on young fragile boys. Not sure there might be an actual love consensual story we aren’t aware of.

Similar why some characters are aged up like Sultan Ahmed because they ain’t gonna show a 13 years old banging girls of his age, will they?

[fymagnificentwomcn]

Ayse was Murad's only haseki sultan but if you look through the dark pages of Ottoman, you see that Murad had also a male lover named Yusuf who was known as "oglanci", he took young boys from the folk and gave them to the Sultans, Pashas.

It’s a bit hard to discuss this issue using contemporary views of sexual orientation/  Homoeroticism was actually surprisingly common in the Ottoman Empire due to the way women were perceived. Walter G. Andrews& Mehmet Kalpaklı in “The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society” (generally this whole book is an excellent source concerning homoeroticism in Ottoman society) claim that it was similar to the situation in Ancient Greece - women were seen as more suitable for sexual love, while men for the higher, spiritual one. Moreover, any respected woman was seen as a representative of whole family’s honour. As such, authors claim that most of Ottoman divan poetry is in fact addressed to (mostly young) men, and the issue is even more complicated because Ottoman (and modern) Turkish are gender-neutral languages. Having fun with men was actually often seen as natural before settling down to have a family.

Also, because of the private nature of relations with free, Muslim women, because it is offensive, both socially and legally, to express publicly one’s attraction to a woman who is not one’s wife (and one’s wife is never a fit subject for public conversation), the love that could most properly be expressed as a public (poetic) love was that between males. Moreover, it seems to have been considered more proper (and less dangerous) for a young man to adopt the essentially submissive, self-sacrificing posture of a passionate lover toward a beloved who was male and, hence, a legitimate wielder of power in a society where men were expected to dominate in the public sphere. Beyond this, we will present evidence that, generally, the culture of the court and court-dependent elites in absolutist monarchies—both Ottoman and European—expressed itself in part as homoeroticism.

Homosexual or homoerotic relations weren’t also punished as severly as in Europe in the same time period:

In Ottoman society, sexual or erotic relations between men or men and boys were seldom punished, especially if they were carried on in private, and homoerotic relations were in a much less serious class of crimes than illicit sexual contacts with women, which could, in theory, result in death by stoning.

And yes the issue of homoeroticism often came together with patronage of young, pretty boys:

In eroticized patronage relations, however, when the beloved is more powerful, richer, and more highly placed, gifts are replaced by devotion and refined entertainment (sohbet [(intimate) conversation], poetry) and sexual gratification by material rewards of various kinds (a caftan, money, a job). Everybody did this, from the top on down. Even the sultan rewarded the pages of his palace school—the beloved boys of his court—on various occasions by having trays of coins scattered for them to scramble after.20 This can be visualized as a system in which scrambles after something.

Ok, this was just a brief discussion of historical backgound, now time to discuss Murad. It’s hard to assign a sexual orientation to him, to be honest. One thing that is pretty much sure is that he preferred male companionship to female companionship; he didn’t like to spend time in harem, while he spent a lot of time with his male favourites and had strong emotional bonds with some of them, and we don’t have stories of similar relationships concerning him and women. Another sultan who is said to have homosexual inclinations, which is Mehmed the Conqueror, was claimed to enjoy sexual relationships with both men and women, but not having strong emotional bonds with either sex (at least Babinger claims so). As for  Murad and sex - it’s just one big mystery. He definitely had sex with women because he did produce several children, but whether he enjoyed it or just forced himself to sleep with concubines to produce heirs - we don’t know. There were definitely rumours about him not not taking women to bed eagerly, like him having a male harem or multiple versions of the story about Kösem sending him boys - one says she sent him concubines dressed as boys, so that heirs could be produced. But those are all rumours.

Now to what sources say about relationships with his male fvourites:

Bobovius stated that: “Murad talked mainly with men, as opposed to Ibrahim, who liked to listen to music in company of his odalisques” and that in these matters: “Sultan Ibrahim behaved in ways compliant with what nature expects of us, as opposed to his brother”.

Musa Çelebi

Swedish ambassador Ralamb wrote that Sultan Murad fell in love with young Armenian named Musa Celebi and after losing him never fell in love again: “Jannissaries took the young man away from him, threatening him, and then tore him to shreds in front of Murad’s eyes, and the Padişah fell into love melancholy”.

Evliya Çelebi mentioned that when during one of the parties someone recited elegy about Musa, Murad openly cried in the company of all other men.

Emir Güne aka Yusuf Pasha

There were rumours about their possible affair, especially since they spent so much time partying in each other’s company, sometimes they even spent together three days and three days in row in Yusuf’s palace, which was often a place for their extravagant parties (source: A New Relation Of The Inner-Part of The Grand Seignor’s Seraglio by Jean-Baptise Tavernier.) Yusuf was clearly disliked by people, not only because of being Persian, but also because of leading Murad the wrong way and encouraging his partying& other bad habits. Naima mentions that after Murad’s death, Ibrahim allegedly said that: “Yusuf Pasha’s life is unnecessary” and confiscated the famous party palace.

Silahtar Mustafa Pasha 

Du Loir described him mostly in connection with rumours about Murad’s death - there were some about him wanting to leave the Empire to Silahtar, but LBR even if Murad did plan to put an end to Ottoman dynasty, the Crimean khan claim is much more believable. Other rumours said that Murad died in Silahtar’s arms or wished so because Silahtar sincerely loved him since their youth. There were also some stories about Silahtar wanting to kill himself out of grief following Murad’s death.

- Joanna

[ottomanladies]

Hi, can you tell me more about Kösem's personality and appearance? His tastes or something like that.8)

mahfirvz said to ottomanladies: Can you please tell us more about Kosem Sultan?

I’m going to combine these two asks since they’re similar.

there are no physical descriptions of Kösem, only that she was beautiful and that she was still beautiful in her sixties

apparently she was both beautiful and talented, 

she was generous and spent a lot of money in charity. She also worried about orphan girls who did not have the means to have a dowry to get married and she also freed her slaves every three years

she is variously described as wise and prudent

I think she was a good mother or at least she worried a lot about her children: she worried about Murad IV’s health, she took Kaya Ismihan with her and treated her like one of her daughters, she tried to counsel Ibrahim, she interceded on behalf of her sons-in-law (probably out of concern for her daughters lol)– I think she was someone who loved children? I don’t know, I got this impression

She may have had a locket around her neck with the names of Murad and Ibrahim, which was found when she was killed. If it’s true, I think it’s very sweet 

She was ambitious, of course, and very politically savvy

She was also proud: she boasted that she had been the wife of an emperor and mother to three (? I don’t know if the Venetian ambassador reported it wrong or what)

I think she truly believed to be doing the best for the empire or that she was the best that the empire could have at the moment

She was sassy, I loved when she addressed the alleged plot against her in a divan meeting: "Thanks to God, I have lived through four reigns and I have governed myself for a long while. The world will be neither reformed nor destroyed by my death.“ SASSY GRANDMA KOSEM

“"When certain imperial commands have been issued, they have said [to the sultan], ‘my dear, who taught you to say these things’?’ Such patronizing behavior towards sultans is impermissible! And what if the sultan is instructed’?” In Naima’s words, Abdulaziz Efendi “drowned in the sea of mortification. ” … amazing. Like, just amazing.

“"You really give me a headache. But I give you an awful headache too. How many times have I asked myself. 'I wonder if he’s getting sick of me’?’ But what else can we do?“ I love this line! (it’s from a letter to the Grand Vizier during her regency to Murad IV)

Apparently Murad IV threatened to send her to the Old Palace more than once but his “favourites” (we don’t know whom) always made him change his mind

It seems she loved Murad IV to death but it was him who did not quite reciprocate? Several Venetian ambassadors commented on his scarse love for his mother and that they argued often. Once, after an argument, she gifted him a horse and organised a banquet to make amends.

^ about this, I think Murad IV never forgave her for the 1632 riots: he lost Musa Celebi, he had to humiliate himself in front of the rioteers, he was ordered to give up the princes (the worst you could ask to a sultan because it means you want to depose him) so… yeah. I think he blamed her because Hafiz Ahmed had been her man. I don’t think he was a woman-hater per se- he grew up around women ffs, he loved his “eldest daughter” ("This king has three daughters, the eldest of whom is nine years old […], much loved by His Majesty” – Foscarini in 1637), he donated gardens to Kaya Ismihan (and she was still a child at the time), he felt the need to honour Safiye- so I think he had a particular problem with his mother and I think it’s the riots of 1632

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Celebi Sultan Mehmed kimdir ve neden Osmanlı Devleti’nin ikinci kurucusu kabul edilmektedir?1413-1421 tarihleri arasında Osmanlı tahtına oturan Sultân Mehmed Çelebi, 781/1380 yılında Germiyanoğullarından Süleyman Şah’ın kızı Devlet Hâtun’dan dünyaya gelmiştir. Asil ve dindar bir devlet adamı olan Mehmed Çelebi, bazı tarihçiler tarafından Osmanlı Devleti’nin ikinci kurucusu ve 9. asrın müceddidi kabul edilmektedir. Babasının esareti sırasında vezir Bâyezid Paşa’nın tavsiyelerine uyarak Amasya’ya gitti ve padişahlığını ilan etti. Kardeşi İsa Çelebi’yi tasfiye etti. Ancak Süleyman Bey’in Ankara’ya kadar gelmesi üzerine, Amasya-Tokat-Sivas bölgesiyle yetindi. İyi bir diplomattı. Musa Çelebi önce Mehmed Çelebi’ye itaat etti. Ancak 1410 yılında Rumeli’de saltanatını ilan edince durum değişti. 1413 yılında kardeşi Musa Çelebi’nin öldürülmesinden sonra, Osmanlı tahtının tek vârisi olarak kaldı. Osmanlı tarihçileri tarafından ye| asrın yani Hicrî 9, asrın siyâset alanında müceddidi olarak kabul edilmektedir. Çelebi Mehmed Rumeli’ndeki olaylarla uğraşırken, Karamanoğlu yine hareke! geçti. Germiyanoğlu Yakub Bey’in Mehmed Çelebi’ye itaatini bildirmesi üzerine Bursa’j kuşattı. Hacı İvaz Paşa’nın kahramanca müdafaası üzerine Yıldırım Bâyezid’in sur dışııf da kalan kabrine hakaret bile etti. İşte bu kargaşa içinde Sultanlık koltuğuna oturaf Mehmed Çelebi, Aydın’daki Candaroğullarımn da tabiiyetini kabul ettikten sonıj Karamanoğlu’nun üzerine yürüdü ve halasının oğlu olan Karamanoğlu II. Mehmed esir aldı. Sonra affetti. Bu arada Venedik donanmasına karşı 1416 yılında Çalı Bey ko) mutasındaki Osmanlı donanması hücuma geçti, ancak mağlup oldu. Buna karşılık Mac Kralı Sigismund’un haçlı seferi teşebbüsü, Mehmed Çelebi’nin bir paşası olan Gâzî İsha| Bey tarafından püskürtülünce Osmanlı prestij kazandı. İshak Bey’in 1415 muharebesin den sonra Türklerin Bosna Sarayı dedikleri Sarajevo Osmanlı’nın eline geçti. İshakl Bey’in Rumeli’deki bu fetihleri Romanya ve diğer Balkan bölgelerinde de devam etti.j Sultân Mehmed de boş durmuyor ve Sinop’daki Candar Beğliğinin bir kısım topraklarını} Osmanlı Devleti’ne ilhak ediyordu. Osmanlı Devleti, yeniden eski ihtişamına kavuşmak üzere iken, (Merzifon Tarihi)

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This kaftan was first worn by Şehzade Mehmed in the twenty-second episode of the first season of Magnificent Century: Kösem. It was worn again by Musa Çelebi in the twenty-sixth episode of the second season.

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♡ The world without you is nothing but dust. This world is empty without you.

[ottomanladies]

Why did Murad IV execute his brothers ? He also tried to kill Ibrahim even though he did nothing wrong ? Btw Kosem saved Ibrahim right ?

They were a thorn in his side, politically speaking. 

When talking about Murad IV and his biggest acts of violence, fratricide in this case, we have to take into consideration the context in which he lived and reigned (I mean, we should do this for any historical figure but... you get me):

Murad IV came to the throne at the age of eleven after six turbolent years in which the empire had seen a mad sultan, an underage sultan who was ultimately assassinated and basically three depositions (two for Mustafa I and Osman II’s). While we have no proof that Murad IV physically witnessed any of these events (he was probably closed in the kafes), he surely knew that his elder brother Mehmed had been executed (he could have also seen him being dragged away by the guards) and that his other elder brother Osman had been assassinated even though he was “God’s shadow on Earth”. He also spent six years without his mother, his only parent left. For a child that small, it was very traumatising.

Moreover, his reign started with turmoil which culminated into the 1632 revolts when he was demanded to hand over seventeen of his favourites or abdicate. With the executions of his favourites, Murad IV thought that the ordeal was over but NOPE! After he had his rebellious former Grand Vizier executed, he was also asked to produce his brothers and to give them to the chiefs of the revolts because they did not trust him. Like, they literally told him “we don’t trust you to keep your promise”. As we can imagine, they did not want to get a hold of the princes because they loved them, they wanted to get the upperhand on the sultan and threaten him with his own brothers whenever they were not pleased with him. 

Now, the 1632 revolts is something that Murad IV never forgot: he was humiliated, he was forced to meet the revolters' demands, he lost Musa Celebi (and 16 other favourites), he actually pleaded with his own subjects but to no avail. On top of this, the janissaries considered dethroning him for one of his brothers. 

You know I am a lover of parallels. Well. This reminds me of Louis XIV’s attitude towards the nobles who had participated in the fronde; he never forgot that he had been forced to flee Paris, he never forgot who exactly took part in the fronde. Similarly, Peter the Great - at the age of 9 - had to witness the hacking to pieces of one of his mother’s favourites, Artamon Matveyev, and it is said that the event scarred him for life and probably caused his taste for violence.

Knowing all of this, I’m not at all surprised by his decision to execute his brothers or by his violent behaviour. Naturally, Murad IV did not know that he would die at the age of 27 so he probably imagined he would be blackmailed with his brothers all his life. After his first military victory, he did away with his half-brothers Bayezid and Süleyman; after his second - and more important - military victory he felt his position stable enough to do away with at least one of his actual brothers: Kasim. I don’t know if it’s true that Kösem pleaded with him on behalf of Ibrahim or if Murad would have spared him either way, but if his intention was to kill all his brothers, I imagine that he had a heir at the time. Contrary to popular belief, Murad IV was not mad and he would have never left the empire to the Crimeans.

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reinetteinthefireplace replied to your post “Do you know where I can watch MY2 Kosem translated into either English...”

Can you watch the original MC there too??

Only S1: https://wlext.net/series/muhtesem-yuzyil-season-1?server=stream&episode=001

Plus a link to YT account where all MYK S1 and four first MYK S2 episodes have already been uploaded and they are regularly added! These subs for S2 differ, so I don’t know which one you may prefer. The wlext ones have some weird names such as “Mousa Shalabi” instead of “Musa Celebi” for example. The ones from the YT account have standard spelling: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC67WCbD5ZgPNXatxOojZ5IA/videos

Enjoy :)

- Joanna

[ottomanladies]

Sultan Bayezid II + harem and children

Consorts:

Ayşe Hatun (?? - 1512?): daughter of Alâüddevle Bozkurt Bey of the Dulkadir dynasty and possibly niece of Sitti Mukrime Hatun (consort of Mehmed II). She is usually given as mother of Selim I, but she was not. According to Alderson, she died in 1512.

Bülbül Hatun (?? - 1515): mother of Şehzade Ahmed and Hundi Sultan. She was a very charitable person, building a mosque complex in Ladik, another mosque, school and fountain in Amasya and a school in Bursa. When her son was executed by Selim I, she retired to Bursa where she built a tomb for him. She is buried next to her son.

Ferahşad Hatun (?? - after 1521): Şehzade Mehmed’s mother, she is variously called Ferruhşad or Muhterem. It is possible that her whole name was Muhterem Ferruhşad. Upon the death of her son in 1505, she retired to Bursa like it was customary for the mother of a deceased prince. She established a foundation in Silivri n 1521, so she must have died later.

Hüsnüşah Hatun (?? - after 1511): mother of Şehzade Şehinşah and Sultanzade. She followed her son first to Manisa and then to Konya. After Şehzade Şehinşah died, she settled in Bursa where she eventually died. She had built the Hatuniye Mosque in 1490 in Manisa during her son’s governorship there. She wrote to Selim I on behalf of Mevlana Pir Ahmed Celebi, one of Şehzade Şehinşah’s men who had not received a new post after the prince’s death.

(Ayşe) Gülbahar Hatun (?? - 1505): mother of Selim I, she was a slave concubine and not a highborn princess as tradition maintains. She died in Trabzon during her son’s princely post and she was buried in the Hatuniye Tomb there.

Gülruh Hatun (?? - after 1520): mother of Şehzade Alemşah and Kamer Sultan. During the reign of Bayezid II, she used to correspond with him about their son: “My fortune-favored padishah, heed my cry for help, … rid us of [my son’s] tutor, teacher, and doctor. They are masters of corruption…. Send us good Muslims because our situation has been pitiful since these persons arrived. They have deprived me of my mother’s rights…. If these seven do not go, they will utterly destroy the household of my son, your servant”. Alemşah would die because of heavy drinking, and Gülruh Hatun retired to Bursa. She died in the early days of Süleyman the Magnificent’s reign and was buried in the Gülruh Hatun Tomb in the Muradiye Mosque.

Nigar Hatun (?? - 1503): according to Uluçay and Oztuna, she was the mother of Şehzade Korkut and Fatma Sultan. She followed her son first in Manisa and then in Antalya, where she died and was buried.

Şirin Hatun (?-?): mother of Şehzade Abdullah and Aynışah Sultan according to Uluçay. She is not present in Sicill-i Osmani among Bayezid II’s consorts. It is not known when she died but she was buried with her son and daughter in her son’s tomb. She had built a school in Bursa and a mosque in Trabzon.

Children:

Damad Şehzade Abdullah (1465? - 6.11.1483): eldest son of Bayezid II, he was governor of Trabzon, Manisa and Konya, where he died. He is called Damad as well because he had married his cousin Ferahşâd Sultan, daughter of Mehmed II’s son Şehzade Mustafa. With her she had: a son (1481 - 1489), Aynışah Sultan (1482 - ??) and Şâhnisâ Sultan (1484 - ??). Both princesses reached adulthood as they both got married.

Ayşe Sultan (1465? - after 1515): according to Uluçay she may have been sister to Şehzade Ahmed or to Şehzade Korkut. She married Dâmâd Güveği Sinân Paşa around 1480 and had 6 children with him: Sultanzade Ahmed Bey, Sultanzade Mustafa Bey, Hanzade Ayşe Mihrihan Hanımsultan (who later married Dukagin-zâde Sultanzade Mehmed Paşa), Kamer-Şâh Hanımsultan (who later married Ahmed Bey son of Grand Vizier Mesîh Paşa), Fatma Hanımsultan (who later married Ahmed Bey son of Grand Vizier Mesîh Paşa) and Gevherşah Hanımsultan (who later married İbrahim Bey son of Ömer Bey). Ayşe Sultan built a mosque and a school in Gallipoli and in 1505 she established a foundation. She was buried in Istanbul.

Hatice Sultan (1465? - 1500): the identity of her mother is unknown. She firstly married Dâmâd Müderris Kara Mustafa Paşa around 1479 and had two children with him: Sultanzade Ahmed Çelebî (1480?-1500) and Hânzâde Hanımsultân. She secondly married Dâmâd Fâik Paşa sometime after 1483. Hatice Sultan built a mosque, school and fountain in Edirnekapi in Istanbul. She was buried in Bursa in the Hatice Sultan Tomb, built by her son.

Şehzade Ahmed (1466? - 24.4.1513): Selim I’s biggest opponent during the fight for the throne, he was Bayezid II’s favourite son and the one he wanted to be succeeded by. His only known consort was called Bülbül like his mother. Ahmed had several children: Şehzade Murad (1495 - 1519), Şehzade Alaeddin (1496? - 1513), Şehzade Süleyman (1497? - 1513), Şehzade Osman (1498? - 1513), Şehzade Ali (1499? - 1513), Şehzade Mehmed (1500? - 1513), Şehzade Kasim (1501 - 1518), Kamer Sultan (later wife of Dâmâd Mehmed Çelebî), Fatma Sultan (later wife of Dâmâd Mehmed Bey), and an unnamed princess (later wife of Dâmâd Silahdar Süleyman Bey)

Şehzade Korkut (1467 - 10.3.1513): another of Selim I’s opponents, he thought that he could quietly take the throne while Selim was busy with their brother Ahmed. He paid the janissaries for their support but when Selim arrived in Istanbul, they switched to his side. Governor of Amasya and then Manisa, he was allowed to return there after Bayezid II’s death but eventually Selim I had him executed. He had four children: two sons who died in infancy and Fatma Sultan (later wife of Dâmâd ‘Alî Bey) and Ferahşad Sultan (later wife of Dâmâd Malkoçoğlu ‘Alî Bey and Dâmâd Mehmed Balı Efendi)

Gevherimülûk Sultan (1467? - 1550): the identity of her mother is unknown. She married Dukaginzâde Dâmâd Ahmed Paşa and had two children with him: Nesl-i Şâh Hanımsultan (who married İskender Paşa) and Sultân-zâde Mehmed Paşa (who married his cousin Hanzade Ayşe Mihrihan Hanımsultan daughter of Ayşe Sultan). Gevherimülûk Sultan built a school near the Zal Mahmud Paşa Mosque, and she was buried there when she died.

Selçuk or Selçukşah Sultan (1469 - 1508): the identity of her mother is unknown. She firstly married Dâmâd Ferhâd Bey around 1484 and had two children with him: Nesl-i Şâh Hanımsultan (1486?-1550?) and Sultânzâde Gaazî Husrev Bey/Paşa (1484?-18.6.1541). She secondly married Dâmâd Mehmed Bey in 1486 and had three daughters with him: Hân-zâde Hanımsultan (who married her cousin, son of İlaldı Sultan), an unnamed daughter who married a son of Halil Paşa, and another unnamed daughter who later married Grand Vizier Yûnus Paşa. Selçuk Sultan died in 1508 and was buried in the Selçuk Sultan Mausoleum inside the Bayezid II Mosque in Istanbul.

Hundi Sultan (around 1470 - 1511): daughter of Bülbül Hatun and Şehzade Ahmed’s sister. She married Hersekzade Ahmed Paşa in 1484 and with him had: Sultânzâde Mûsâ Bey; Sultânzâde Mustafa Bey (governor of Bozok in 1533); Kamer-Şâh Hanım-Sultân; Hümâ-Şâh Hanım-Sultân (died after 1551)

Selim I (1470/1471 - 21 September 1520): 9th sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Şehzade Şehinşah (1474 - 1511): governor of Manisa and then Konya, he died at 37 years old and was buried in Bursa in the Muradiye Mosque near the Şehzâde Mustafa Tomb. His only known consort was Mükrime Hatun, mother of his son Şehzade Mehmed-Şah, who later married his own cousin Şahnisa Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Abdullah.

Şehzade Mahmud (1475 - 1507?): governor of Kastamonu and later of Manisa, where he died at 32 years old. He had three sons and two daughters: Şehzade Orhan, Şehzade Musa, Şehzade Emir-Süleyman (all executed on Selim I’s orders in 1512), Ayşe Hundi Sultan (later wife of Damad Ferruh Bey), Hançerli Fatma Sultan (later wife of Damad Mehmed Bey)

Şehzade Mehmed (1476? - 12.1504): governor of Kefe, where he died. He was married to a princess of the Giray Dynasty, and had two children: Fatma Sultan (1500? - 1556) and Şehzade Mehmed (1505 - 1515, postumous)

Şehzade Alemşah (1477 - 1502): governor of Menteşe and then Manisa, where he died. He had a son and two daughters: Şehzade Osmanşah (1492 - 1512), Ayşe Sultan (later wife of Sultanzade Dâmâd Mehmed Çelebî, son of Bayezid II’s daughter Fatma Sultan) and Fatma Sultan (?? - after 1520)

Aynışah Sultan (?? - after 1512): daughter of Şirin Hatun and sister of Şehzade Abdullah, she married Akkoyunlu Damad Göde Ahmed Bey in 1490. She had two daughters with him: Hanzade Hanımsultan (who later married Sultanzade Yahyapaşazade Balı Paşa) and an unnamed daughter who married her cousin Şehzade Alaeddin, son of Şehzade Ahmed. Aynışah Sultan built a school in Istanbul and established a foundation in 1506. She was one of the princesses who sent letters of congratulations to Selim I when he became sultan. She died after 1512 and was buried next to her mother and brother in Bursa.

Hüma/Hümaşah Sultan (?? - after 1504): the identity of her mother is unknown. She married Dâmâd Antalyalı Balı Paşa around 1482, but seemed not to have had any children. She was buried in Bursa near the Muradiye Tomb.

İlaldı Sultan (?? - before 1518): the identity of her mother is unknown. She married Dâmâd Ahmed Ağa (later Hâin Ahmed Paşa), governor of Rumelia and later governor or Egypt and Second Vizier. With his she had two children: Şâh-zâde Ayn-i Şâh Hanımsultan (who later married Abdüsselâm Çelebî) and a son (who later married a daughter of Selçuk Sultan). İlaldı Sultan wrote a letter of congratulations to Selim I on his accession. It is not known when she died and where she was buried.

Kamer or Kamerşah Sultan (?? - ??): daughter of Gülruh Hatun, she was married to Damad Nişancı Kara Davud Paşa. She had a daughter who later married one Mesih Bey. She was buried in the tomb of her mother in Bursa.

Şah or Şehzade Şah Sultan (?? - after 1506): the identity of her mother is unknown. She married Dâmâd Nasûh Bey around 1490 and had a daughter with him. Both husband and wife were very involved in charity deeds, and Şah Sultan even built a mosque in 1506. When she died she was buried in her sister Hatice’s mausoleum in Bursa.

Şah-zade Sultan (?? - 1520): according to Oztuna, she was a different princess from Şah. She married Malkoçoğlu Dâmâd Yahyâ Pasha in 1501/1502 and had three sons with him: Sultanzade Yahyapaşazade Gaazî Küçük Balı Paşa (?? - 1543), who married his cousin Hanzade Hanımsultan (daughter of Aynışah Sultan); Sultanzade Gaazî Koca Mehmed Paşa (?? - 2.1548), and Sultanzade Gaazî Ahmed Bey (?? - after 1543)

Sofu Fatma Sultan (?? - after 1515): daughter of Nigâr Hatun and sister of Şehzade Korkut. She married Dâmâd Güzelce Hasan Bey around 1504 and had two children with him: Sultanzade Dâmâd Mehmed Çelebi (who later married Ayse Sultan daughter of Şehzade Alemşah) and an unnamed daughter, who later married Ahmed Bey, son of Ali Bey and Fatma Hanımsultan (daughter of her sister Ayse). She was a very charitable person and left all her possession to the poor when she died. She was buried in the tomb of her half-brother Şehzade Ahmed in Bursa.

Sultanzade Sultan (?? - ??): daughter of Hüsnüşah Hatun and sister of Şehzade Alemşah, nothing else is known about her.

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On this day, 8 June, in Ottoman history

8 June 1632 - violent demonstration of the cavalry at the Hippodrome: after Murad IV’s widespread reforms to tackle corruption in the empire, among which the “curbs on the numbers and tax collection activities of the sultan’s cavalry regiments”, the soldiers met at the Hippodrome to demonstrate their displeasure. This followed the violent rebellion of January 1632, when the sultan had lost his favourite Musa Celebi and several members of the divan.

8 June 1874 - wedding of the future Murad V with Meyl-i servet Kadın: of Circassian origins, she met the then-Prince Mehmed Murad Efendi in the 1870s. The two were married on 8 June 1874 inside Dolmabahçe Palace. A year later, she gave birth to her only child: Fehime Sultan. Meyliservet obtained the rank of Fourth Imperial Consort when her husband became sultan, and died at only 37 years of age in Çırağan Palace. 

8 June 1885 - wedding of the future Mehmed VI Vahideddin and Emine Nazikeda: the then-Prince Mehmed had already noticed Nazikeda in 1880 but Cemile Sultan, in whose household she lived, refused his request to marry her at first. In 1884, after the prince swore that there would be no other woman but Nazikeda, Cemile Sultan accepted and the two could get married. Emine Nazikeda Kadın obtained the rank of Senior Imperial Consort when her husband became sultan, and she is considered the last “empress” of the Ottoman Empire. For 20 years Mehmed VI Vahideddin had only her as consort; when he was notified that the empress could not bear children anymore, he was forced to marry again.