Nükhetsezâ Hanımefendi (wife of Abdülmecid I)

This article is about the Fifteenth wife of Abdulmecid I. For the wife of Abdul Hamid I, see Nükhetsezâ Hanım Efendi.
Nükhetsezâ Hanımefendi
Baş İkbal of the Ottoman Empire
Tenure 21 October 1841 - 15 May 1850
Born Hatice Baras
2 January 1827
Abkhazia, Russian Empire
Died 15 May 1850
Beşiktaş Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial Yeni Mosque, Istanbul
Spouse Abdülmecid I
Issue Aliye Sultan
Şehzade Ahmed Efendi
Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin Efendi
House House of Osman (by marriage)
Father Hatuğ Baras
Mother Ferhunde Hanım
Religion Sunni Islam

Nükhetsezâ Hanımefendi (2 January 1827 - 15 May 1850; fully: Devletlu Başikbal Nükhetsezâ Hanımefendi Hazretleri) was the wife of Sultan Abdülmecid I and Baş Ikbal Hanimefendi (first honoured lady consort) of the Ottoman Empire.

Biography

Nükhetsezâ was born on 2 January 1827 in Abkhazia. Born as Hatice Baras, she was the daughter of Baras Hatuğ Bey, an Abkhazian noble, and his wife Ferhunde Hanım, a Georgian.[1][2] When she was eight, her family emigrated from Caucasus to Istanbul, where she was delivered at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. Valide Sultan Bezmiâlem Sultan took Hatice in her care.[2] She was renamed Nükhetsezâ and was given a thoroughly Turkish and Muslim education in the harem department of Topkapı Palace. Receiving her education in the palace, she was interested in playing piano and oud.[2]

Nükhetsezâ grew into a into a young lady in the Topkapı Palace, and when she entered her fourteenth year she was noticed by Sultan Abdülmecid I.[2] Abdülmecid proposed her and Nükhetsezâ consented to the will of their parents in the marriage proposal of the Sultan. On 21 October 1841 Nükhetsezâ married Abdülmecid in the Topkapı Palace, and she was given the title of Baş İkbâl.[2] She is the great-grandmother of Prince Bayezid Osman Efendi, who is the present and 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman.[2][3][4]

Tuberculosis took its victims in the palace as elsewhere in the nineteenth century and Nükhetsezâ was one of them. She died at the Beşiktaş Palace on 15 May 1850 and was buried in the Mausoleum of the imperial ladies at the Yeni Mosque, Istanbul.[2]

Children

Nükhetsezâ and Abdülmecid had at least three children:

Titles and styles

21 October 1841 - 15 May 1850: Devletlu Başikbal Nükhetsezâ Hanımefendi Hazretleri (Her Highness The First Honoured Lady Consort Nükhetsezâ)

References

  1. ↑ Günay Günaydın (2006). Haremin son gülleri. Mevsimsiz Yayınları. ISBN 978-9-944-98703-5.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Harun Açba (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
  3. ↑ The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
  4. ↑ M. Çağatay Uluçay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. pp. 248–49. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.

Succession

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