Fatma Sultan (daughter of Selim I)
| Fatma Sultan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1500 Trabzon, Ottoman Empire |
| Died |
1573 (aged 73) Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
| Burial | Kara Ahmed Pasha Türbe |
| Spouse |
Mustafa Pasha Kara Ahmed Pasha Hadım İbrahim Pasha |
| House | House of Osman |
| Father | Selim I |
| Mother | Ayşe Hafsa Sultan |
| Religion | Islam |
Fatma Sultan (1500–1573) (Ottoman Turkish: فاطمہ سلطان) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Selim I and Ayşe Hafsa Sultan. She was the sister of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
Biography
She was born in 1500 (at Trabzon) to Selim I and Ayşe Hafsa Sultan. She was married to Mustafa Pasha, the governor of Antioch where she was living until their divorce, because of his homosexuality.
Then, she married Kara Ahmed Pasha, who was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1553 , and they had two daughters. But almost two years later, Kara Ahmed was strangled by Suleiman's order in September 1555. It is said that the reason for the execution was due to political manoeuvrings of Suleiman's legal wife Hürrem Sultan, who wanted her son-in-law Rüstem to become the grand vizier again. After death of Kara Ahmed, Rüstem Pasha became the grand vizier (1555-1561) once more. After his death, she went to live in Bursa but returned to the Imperial Palace after the death of Suleiman I.
She is famous for having built the Kara Ahmed Pasha Mosque, the mosque was planned in around 1555 but only constructed between 1565 and 1571-1572 when the pasha had been full exonerated. She, Mahidevran Sultan and Selim II were involved in the death of Rüstem Pasha (1561).
She married Hadım Ibrahim Pasha in 1562, and he died the following year.
She died in 1572 and was burried in Kara Ahmet Pacha's tomb.
Depictions in literature and popular culture
In the TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Fatma Sultan is played by Turkish actress Meltem Cumbul.
See also
Further reading
- Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-508677-5 (paperback).
- Yavuz Bahadıroğlu, Resimli Osmanlı Tarihi, Nesil Yayınları (Ottoman History with Illustrations, Nesil Publications), 15th Ed., 2009, ISBN 978-975-269-299-2 (Hardcover).
