#asporca

[reallifesultanas]

Family of Orhan I

[ottomanladies]

𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙨 : Orhan Bey

[ljcd]

Old work!

[ottomanladies]

Hi, i was just asking can you list consorts that were of noble birth.

Mal Hatun (consort of Osman I): probably the daughter of the ruler of the umeri principality

Asporça Hatun (consort of Orhan): probably the daughter of a byzantine lord

Theodora Kantakuzenos (consort of Orhan): byzantine princess

Tamara Hatun (Murad I): Bulgarian princess

Olivera Despina Hatun (Bayezid I): Serbian princess

Emine Hatun (Mehmed I): Dulkadir princess 

Mara Hatun (Murad II): Serbian princess

Sitti Mukrime Hatun (Mehmed II): Dulkadir princess

Servetseza Başkadınefendi (Abdülmecid I): princess of the Temruko line

Hoşyar Kadınefendi (Abdülmecid I): daughter of Georgian nobleman Zurab Bey Tuskia

Verdicenan Kadınefendi (Abdülmecid I): princess of the Açba family

Şayan Kadınefendi (Abdülmecid I): her mother was a member of the Kucba family

Gülistu Kadınefendi (Abdülmecid I): princess of the Çaçba family

Zerrinmelek Hanım(Abdülmecid I): princess of the Klıç dynasty

Nesrin Hanım(Abdülmecid I): daughter of Georgian nobleman Manuçar Bey Asemiani

Navek-i Visal Hanım (Abdülmecid I): princess of the Biberd family

Neveser Hanım(Abdülmecid I): daughter of Abazin nobleman Mısost Bey Eşba

Nalan-ı Dil Hanım(Abdülmecid I): daughter of Prince Çıpakue Natıkhu Bey

Şayeste Hanım(Abdülmecid I): princess of the Inalipa family

Ayşe Serfiraz Hanım(Abdülmecid I): princess of the Liah (or Lakh) family

Safderun Hanım (Abdülmecid I): daughter of a Circassian princess

Dürr-i Nev Kadınefendi (Abdülaziz): daughter of Prince Mahmud Bey Dziapş-lpa

Edadil Kadınefendi (Abdülaziz): daughter of Abkhaz Prince Aredba Tandal Bey

Neşerek Kadınefendi (Abdülaziz): daughter of Prince İsmail Bey Zevş-Barakay

Gevheri Kadınefendi (Abdülaziz): daughter of Abkhazian nbleman Salih Bey

Reftar-ı dil Kadınefendi (Murad V): daughter of the noble Circassian family Hatko

Şayan Kadınefendi (Murad V): daughter of Prince Batir Bey Zan

Filizten Hanım (Murad V): daughter of Abazin prince Şahin Bey Çaabalurhva

Nazikeda Kadınefendi (Abdülhamid II): daughter of Abazin prince Arzakan Bey Tsanba

Safinaz Kadınefendi (Abdülhamid II): daughter of a Circassian princess

Bedrifelek Kadınefendi (Abdülhamid II): daughter of Prince Karzeg Mehmed Bey

Bidar Kadınefendi (Abdülhamid II): daughter of Prince Ibrahim Talustan Bey

Mezide Mestan Kadınefendi (Abdülhamid II): daughter of nobleman Kaymat Bey Mikanba

Sazkar Başhanımefendi (Abdülhamid II): daughter of Abazin nobleman Maan Bata Bey 

Peyveste Hanım (Abdülhamid II): daughter of Abazin prince Eymhaa Osman Bey (Emuhvari)

Fatma Pesend Hanım (Abdülhamid II): daughter of Abazin prince Sami Bey Açba and a Tatar princess, member of the Giray dynasty

Nazperver Kadınefendi (Mehmed V): princess of the Abazin Çikotua dynasty

Emine Nazikeda Kadınefendi (Mehmed VI): daughter of Abkhazian Prince Hasan Ali Marşania

I’m not sure it’s all of them, I might have missed a couple-- if I did, I’ll add them later

[ottomanladies]

Wedded wives of the Ottoman Sultans

“[I]t is unclear whether an Ottoman prince underwent a wedding ceremony with a woman he took as a concubine or, if he acceded to the throne, whom he elevated to the rank of Kadın. The subject of weddings with imperial concubines requires further study, but given the present state of our knowledge we can say that until the mid-nineteenth century, such marriages formed the exceedingly rare exception in the House of Osman. [...] After the mid-nineteenth century, however, marriages with concubines became more frequent as part of the Ottoman monarchy’s increasing adoption of European royal practice.” -- Douglas Scott Brookes, The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem

*I stopped at Abdülmecid I, as it is not clear if subsequent weddings had the same value as these above or if they were just ceremonies to welcome the new concubine in the harem

[ottomanladies]

Is Kösem the only Greek concubine in the Ottoman Empire? If there are more could you list them I know Mahfiruze was said to have been Greek.

Venetian ambassadors say that Murad IV’s haseki Ayşe was Greek like Kösem.  Emetullah Rabia Gülnüş was Greek as well.

About Mahfiruze… the source of this claim is not a work of historiography but rather a French work of fiction about Osman II’s life.

Other consorts who were or may have been Greek:

Asporça Hatun, consort of Orhan Bey

Theodora Kantakuzenos, consort of Orhan Bey

Gülçiçek Hatun, consort of Murad I

Çiçek Hatun, consort of Mehmed II

Nurbanu Sultan, consort of Selim II, may have been of Greek origins though living in Venetian territory

[ottomanladies]

Beyazid I + his consorts and Orhan I + his consorts if you don't mind

Orhan:

Asporça Hatun: mother of Ibrahim and two daughters, Fatma and Selçuk, she was certainly of Greek descent, possibly a noblewoman. She was given several villages by Osman Gazi, which she then gave to her descendants in a 1323 deed. She was buried in the tomb of Orhan Gazi.

Nilüfer Hatun: mother of Murad I (ca. 1326-), she was most likely a consort of slave origins, hence the Persian name, which means "water lily". She was one of the later consorts of Orhan Gazi as she does not appear as a signatory to the endowement deed of 1324. She may have been the consort who welcomed traveller Ibn Battuta, when he arrived in Nicea in 1331. She was buried in the tomb of Orhan Gazi.

Melek Hatun: appears as a witness in a endowement deed dated 1324. She may have been the mother of Sultan.

Efendi/Efendize Hatun: identified as Orhan's wife in a land grant, she may have been his first cousin so the daughter of Osman's brother Gündüz Bey. On the other hand, Uluçay claims she was the daughter of Mahmut Alp.

Theodora Kantakuzenos: daughter of Byzantine John VI Kantakuzenos, she married Orhan in 1346. She was the mother of Orhan's youngest son, Halil. She never converted to Islam and instead encouraged converts to return to their former faith.

Theodora II Hatun: according to Alderson, she was the daughter of Serbian Prince Stephen IV Urosh. She was only 12 years old when she married Orhan, who was around seventy at the time of the marriage.

Bayezid I:

Devlet Hatun: mother of Mehmed I, she was a consort of slave origins. She died in January 1414, and she was buried in solitary mausoleum in Bursa, in which it is clearly stated that she was the mother of Mehmed I.

Devletşah Hatun: apparently a woman of noble origins, being the daughter of the Anatolian Germiyan principality Süleyman Şah Bey and of Mutahhare Hatun, granddaughter of the found of the Sufy order of the Mevlesis. She is usually considered the mother of İsa Çelebi and Musa Çelebi, but according to Peirce it could not have been true because during civil war after Bayezid I's death, the Germiyan ruler delivered Musa to the future Mehmed I and İsa was supported by several Anatolian principalities but not by the Germiyan.

Maria Olivera Despina Hatun: Serbian princess, she was the daughter of Lazar I. Bayezid I married her to strengthen the friendship between the two reigns, in 1390. She was disliked by the Ottomans, who considered her the one who corrupted the sultan, and was thus blamed for the defeat Bayezid suffered at the hands of Timur. She was captured with her husband and forced to serve Timur during banquets. She was blamed by late-fifteenth-century historian Aşıkpaşazade for introducing drinking to the Ottoman court, though it may not have been true.

Hafsa Hatun: daughter of İsa Bey or the principality of Aydın, she married Bayezid I after his campaign in Western Anatolia of Kosovo in 1390. Nothing is known about her life as a royal wife.

[ljcd]

Old work!