Münire Sultan
Münire Sultan (9 December 1844 – 29 June 1862) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Abdülmecid I and his wife Verdicenan Kadınefendi.
Biography
In March 1854, a messenger from Istanbul announced the betrothal of Münire Sultan, to Damad Prince Ibrahim al-Hami (Ilhami) Pasha (born at Cairo 3.1.1836 and died 9.9.1860 at the Bebek Palace in Istanbul),son of Abbas I of Egypt and his wife Mahvash Khanum Effendi. Large public celebrations were proclaimed and the viceroy was reported to be highly pleased with the news. On 31 July 1857 at Istanbul she married Ibrahim Pasha.
Prince Ibrahim died in 1860 when his boat capsized while crossing the Bosphorus, near Bebek Palace, and Münire became widow by his death. She had no Children by her first Marriage. On 2 January 1861, she married secondly Damat Ibrahim Pasha (b.1829 - died 1880 in Trabzon), son of Hasan Riza Pasha of Chepni people Background, and her only Child, a son "Sultanzade Alaeddin Bey Effendi", came of this marriage. She died on 29 June 1862, and was buried in the mausoleum of Münire Sultan, Fatih Mosque, Istanbul.
References
- "Turkey: The Imperial House of Osman". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on May 2, 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- Fanny Davis (1986). The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-24811-5.
