Bidar Kadınefendi

Bidar Kadınefendi بيدار فادين افندی
İkinci Kadın of the Ottoman Empire
Tenure	11 April 1895 – 27 April 1909
Predecessor	Bedrifelek Kadınefendi
Successor	Dürrüaden Kadınefendi
Üçüncü Kadın of the Ottoman Empire
Tenure	26 June 1879 – 11 April 1895
Predecessor	Bedrifelek Kadınefendi
Successor	Dilpesend Kadınefendi
Dördüncü Kadın of the Ottoman Empire
Tenure	3 August 1876 - 26 June 1879
Predecessor	Meyliservet Kadınefendi
Successor	Dilpesend Kadınefendi
Born	5 May 1858 Caucasus, Ottoman Empire
Died	1 January 1918 Erenköy, Asia Minor, Turkey
Burial	Yahya Efendi cemetery
Spouse	Abdul Hamid II
Issue	Fatma Naime Sultan Şehzade Mehmed Abdul Kadir Efendi
Full name Turkish: Bidar English: Beedar Ottoman Turkish: بيدار‎
House	House of Talustan (by birth) House of Osman (by marriage)
Father	Ibrahim Talustan
Mother	Şahika İffet Lortkipanidze
Religion	Sunni Islam

Royal styles of Bidar Kadınefendi
Reference style	Kadinefendi
Alternative style	Her Highness

Bidar Kadınefendi (5 May 1858 - 1 January 1918; Ottoman Turkish: بيدار فادين افندی‎) was the Kadınefendi of the Ottoman Empire the fourth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.

Biography

Bidar Kadınefendi was born on 5 May 1858 in Caucasus, under Ottoman Empire. Born as a member of the Kabardian principality, she was the daughter of Prince Ibrahim Bey Talustan and his wife Princess Şahika İffet Hanım Lortkipanidze, a Georgian.^[1] She had green hazel eyes, brown hair and was tall and slender. She had two younger brothers named Brigadier general Hussein Pasha and Mehmed Ziya Pasha, who were in civil service to Abdul Hamid II. At very young age Bidar left her city of birth and arrived at Istanbul, where she was delivered at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. At the age of seventeen Bidar married Abdul Hamid on 2 September 1875 in the Yıldız Palace, the Sultan's residence at the time.^[2]

During the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that overthrew her husband's autocratic rule and restored constitutional monarchy, Bidar, followed her husband in exile to Salonica. Her brother, Mehmed Ziya Pasha also accompanied them. Bidar Kadınefendi was a nice woman and in 1889 on the orders of Abdul Hamid she accepted the presence of German Empress Augusta Victoria in the harem of Yıldız Palace. For the second time, Bidar, was visited by Empress Augusta Victoria. Empress Augusta Victoria was very impressed by Bidar and used to speak about her in Europe. In 1918, the Austrian Empress Zita was asked by Bidar to visit Istanbul^[3]

After the deposition of Abdul Hamid II she settled in a mansion located in Erenköy, where she lived until her death. She died on 1 January 1918 in and was buried in the Mausoleum of Şehzade Kemaleddin Efendi in Yahya Efendi Cemetery.

Issue

Together with Abdul Hamid, Bidar had two children:

• Fatma Naime Sultan (Constantinople, Yıldız Palace, 4 September 1875 – Tirana, 1945),
• Şehzade Mehmed Abdul Kadir Efendi (Constantinople, Beşiktaş, Dolmabahçe Palace, 16 January 1878 – Sofia, January or 16 March 1944 and buried there)

Titles and styles

• 2 September 1875 - 30 May 1876:
  Bidar Dördüncü Hanımefendi Hazretleri (Her Highness The Fourth Favour Lady Consort Bidar)
• 30 May 1876 - 31 August 1876:
  Veliahd Zevcesi Bidar Dördüncü Hanımefendi Hazretleri (Her Highness The Crown Princess Bidar, The Fourth Favour Lady Consort)
• 31 August 1876 - 26 July 1879:
  Devletlu İsmetlu Bidar Dördüncü Kadınefendi Hazretleri (Her Highness The Fourth Imperial Lady Consort Bidar)
• 26 July 1879 - 11 April 1895:
  Devletlu İsmetlu Bidar Üçüncü Kadınefendi Hazretleri (Her Highness The Third Imperial Lady Consort Bidar)
• 11 April 1895 - 27 April 1909:
  Devletlu İsmetlu Bidar İkinci Kadınefendi Hazretleri (Her Highness The Second Imperial Lady Consort Bidar)

References

1. Bir Çerkes prensesinin harem hatıraları. L & M. 2004. ISBN 978-9-756-49131-7.
2. "Genealogy of the Ottoman Royal Family".
3. The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.

Succession