Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha

Hersekzade / Hersekli ⋅ Damat Ahmed Pasha
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
In office 1497–1498
Monarch	Bayezid II
Preceded by	Koca Davud Pasha
Succeeded by	Çandarlı Ibrahim Pasha the Younger
In office 1503–1506
Monarch	Bayezid II
Preceded by	Hadım Ali Pasha
Succeeded by	Hadım Ali Pasha
In office 1511–1511
Monarch	Bayezid II
Preceded by	Hadım Ali Pasha
Succeeded by	Koca Mustafa Pasha
In office 1512 – November 28, 1514
Monarch	Selim I
Preceded by	Koca Mustafa Pasha
Succeeded by	Dukakinzade Ahmed Pasha
In office 8 September 1515 – 26 April 1516
Monarch	Selim I
Preceded by	Dukakinzade Ahmed Pasha
Succeeded by	Hadım Sinan Pasha
Personal details
Born	Stjepan Hercegović 1459 Herceg Novi, Herzegovina, Ottoman Empire
Died	21 July 1517 Kızılçöl, Dulkadir Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Nationality	Ottoman
Spouse(s)	Fatima, daughter of sultan Bayezid II
Religion	Sunni Islam, previously Christianity
Military service
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire
Service/branch	Ottoman Navy
Rank	Kapudan Pasha (grand admiral)

Hersekzade or Hersekli Ahmed Pasha^[1]("Ahmed Pasha, son of the Herzog"; South Slavic languages: Ahmed-paša Hercegović; Aхмед-паша Херцеговић; 1459 – 21 July 1517) was an Ottoman general and statesman, known in his youth as Stjepan Hercegović.

Stjepan was born into the Kosača family in c. 1459. He was the third son of Stjepan Vukčić Kosača, Duke of Saint Sava, the most powerful noblemen in the Kingdom of Bosnia. Stjepan's half-siblings from his father's first marriage included Queen Katarina, wife of King Stjepan Tomaš, and Vladislav Hercegović, their father's successor. Stjepan's family belonged to the Bosnian Church, but were "shaky Christians" like most of their countrymen; his half-sister converted to Roman Catholicism upon marriage, while Stjepan himself adopted Islam and changed his name to Ahmed after moving to Constantinople in about 1473.^[1][2] Hersekli Ahmed Pasha was a five-time Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and Grand Admiral to the sultan, serving five times as Grand Vizier in the period from 1497 to 1515. He was married in 1482 to Fatima, the daughter of Sultan Bayezid II, and he left descendants. He died on 21 July 1517 of natural causes, toward the end of the reign of Selim I.^[3]

See also

• List of Ottoman Grand Viziers

References

1. Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994). The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. Michigan: The University of Michigan Press. p. 589. ISBN 0472100793.
2. Pinson, Mark (1996). The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: their historic development from the Middle Ages to the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Harvard CMES. p. 33. ISBN 9780932885128.
3. Pinson, Mark (1996). The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: their historic development from the Middle Ages to the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Harvard CMES. p. 34. ISBN 9780932885128.