#hundi sultan daughter of bayezid ii

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Ottoman Princesses named: Şâh

Şâh is a word descending from Old Persian, meaning king. It was the title used by emperors and kings of Iran but also by the rulers of the Ottoman Empire, of the Mughal Empire, of the Bengal Sultanate and of Afghanistan. In the Ottoman Empire it was sometimes used as names for princesses, both alone and in composites, and for princes as well.

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Family of Bayezid II (quite big lol)

+1 information about the daughter of Mahmud, Ayşe:  She surely was still alive between November 1555 and November 1556 since she is listed in Old Palace register with a daily stipend of 70 aspers. 

The same 70 apsers daily stipend was given to Sehzade Ahmed’s unnamed daughter. We dont know if this stands for Kamer, Fatma or the unknown daughter.

About his daughters:

Selcuk Sultan 1459-1508 - mother unknown - she married twice: 1/Ferhad Bey in 1484; 2/Mehmed Bey in 1486 - she had five children: 1/ Nesl-i Şah who died in 1564, she married Halil Paşa in 1510; 2/Gaazi Husrev Bey who was governor of Sarajevo, which he developed into a great city, then he was governor of Smederevo (1521), governor of Bosnia (1526-1533), then governor of Belgrade in 1533 and again governor of Bosnia from 1536 to 1541. He died in Sarajevo and was buried there. 3/ Hanzade who married her cousin, a son of Ilaldi Sultan 4/ unnamed princess who married the son of Halil Paşa (her eldest sister’s husband) in 1510; 5/unnamed princess who married twice, the first time to Grand Vizier Yunus Pasha and the second time to Defterdar Mehmed Çelebi (later Grand Vezier and Egypt governor)

Ayşe Sultan 1465 - after 1515 - she may have been sister to Şehzade Ahmed or to Şehzade Korkut. Ahmed was born in 1466 Korkud in 1467 so Ayşe surely was born before them. - she married Güvegi Sinan Pasha in 1480 and had several (at least 6) children but we don’t have information about each one of them: 1/ GevherŞah who married one İbrahim Bey 2/ KamerŞah who married the son of Grand Vizier Mesih Paşa 3/ Fatma who married another son of Grand Vizier Mesih Paşa 4/ Ahmed Bey; 5/ Mustafa Bey; 6/Hanzade Ayşe Mihrihan who later married Dukaginzade Sultanzade Mehmed Paşa and had a daughter Mihri Hatun, who surely was alive between 1555 November and 1556 November. - she built a mosque and a school in Gallipoli and in 1505 she established a foundation

Hatice Sultan 1465 - 1500 - the identity of her mother is unknown - she married to 1/ Müderris Kara Mustafa Pasha around 1479 and had two children with him: Ahmed Çelebi (1480?-1500) and Hanzade; 2/ she married Faik Pasha after 1483 - she built a mosque, school and fountain in Edirnekapi - she was buried in Bursa in the Hatice Sultan Tomb, built by her son

Gevherimülük Sultan 1467 - 1550 - mother unknown - she married to Ahmed Pasha and had 2 children: 1/ Nesli Şahwho died in 1559, she married Dukaginzade Iskender Pasha; 2/ Mehmed Pasha who died in 1557, was governor of Aleppo and Egypt, he married his cousin Ayşe Hanzade Mihrihan, daughter of Ayşe Sultan - she built a school near the Zal Mahmud Pasha Mosque, and she was buried there

Şehzade Hundi Sultan 1465(?) - 1511 - some suggest a birth date of 1470 but it is not correct as she was the daughter of Bülbül Hatun and so Şehzade Ahmed’s sister. Ahmed was born in 1466 so Hundi had to be born before him. - Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha was her husband from 1484 and had children with him: 1/ Mustafa Bey who was governor of Bozok and died in 1533 killed by rebels in his province; 2/ HümaŞah who died after 1551; 3/ Musa Bey

Ilaldi Sultan ? - before 1518 - mother unknown - she had two children with her husband Hain Ahmed Pasha: 1/Aynişah who died after 1531 and married Abdüsselam Çelebi; 2/ unnamed son who married his cousin, the unnamed daughter of Selçuk Sultân - she wrote a congratulation letter to Selim I

Aynişah Sultan  1464(?) - after 1512 - daughter of Şirin Hatun and sister of Şehzade Abdullah (b. 1465) - she married Akkoyunlu Damad Göde Ahmed Bey in 1490 and had children: 1/ Hanzade who married to Yahyapaşazade Gaazi Küçük Bali Paşa; 2/ unnamed princess who married Şehzade Alaeddin, one of Şehzade Ahmed’s sons - she built a school in Istanbul and established a foundation in 1506 - she sent letters of congratulations to Selim I when he became sultan

Hüma/Hümaşah Sultan ? - after 1504 - mother unknown - she married Antalyalı Bali Paşa around 1482 - she was buried in Bursa

Kamer/Kamerşah Sultan ? - ? - she was the daughter of Gülruh Hatun - she was married to Damad Nişanci Kara Davud Pasha, with whom she had a daughter who later married one Mesih Bey. - she was buried in the tomb of her mother in Bursa

Şah/Şehzade Şah Sultan ? - after 1506 - her mother is unknown - she married Nasuh Bey around 1490 and had a daughter - she was involved in charity - she built a mosque in 1506 - she was buried in her sister Hatice’s mausoleum in Bursa

Sofu Fatma Sultan 1466(?) - after 1515 - she was the daughter of Nigar Hatun and sister of Şehzade Korkut and since  Korkut was born in 1467 so actually Sofu Fatma should born even before 1464/5/6. - she married Güzelce Hasan Bey around 1504 and had two children with him: 1/ Mehmed Çelebi who later married Ayse Sultan daughter of Şehzade Alemşah; 2/ unnamed daughter who later married Ahmed Bey, son of Ali Bey and Fatma Hanımsultan - about her marriages it is possible she had a first marriage which is not listed by most historians (she would be too old for a first marriage in 1504). She should have a first marriage around the early 1480's. About the identity of the first hubby: Öztuna claims Sofu Fatma's firs husband was İsfendiyâroğlu (Cândâroğlu) Mirza Mehmed Pasha, son of Kyzyl Ahmed Bey. Öztuna gives no marriage date. The problem is, Fatma remarried in 1504 but the pasha was alive until 1530. I don't see why would they divorce, so well I don't know. Öztuna claims they had a son, Mehmed Bey, together who later married Selim I's daughter Gevherhan. Its fine Fatma's son Mehmed did marry Gevherhan okay. But then why would she name her second son also Mehmed? Because she had a son Mehmed from her second marriage who married Ayse Sultan daughter of Şehzade Alemşah. So just why 2 Mehmeds? I dunno this... Maybe one of the names is mistaken?  - she was charitable --> left all her possession to the poor when she died - she was buried in the tomb of her half-brother Şehzade Ahmed in Bursa

Sultanzade Sultan ? - ? - daughter of Hüsnüşah Hatun and sister of Şehzade Alemşah

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Hi 🌸 I wanna know more about Beyazid II like his life as a prince and as a sultan, his wives and children (besides Selim I of course)

Thank you for your question. We want to give you an answer that is as accurate as possible, so we double-check all our sources, and due to how comprehensive this answer is going to be, we decided to split it up. I will start with his wives and Joanna, Lina and Veronica will work on the rest, so we kindly ask you to come back in a couple of days for that.

Gülbahar Hatun

Her name and her identity as a whole is disputed—it’s difficult to determine whether Gülbahar and Ayşe were two different wives or not. The oldest source on this, as well as Babinger and Alderson, identify Ayşe as Selim I’s mother, however, according to Sicill-i Osmanî, her name is Gülbahar.

Gökbilgin and Danişmend support the theory that Ayse, daughter of the Bey of Dulkadir, was Bayezid’s lawfully wedded wife and Selim’s mother, and Gökbilgin claims that Ayşe might have been Gülbahar. Sakaoğlu, however, states that there is no further information on Ayşe and proposes that one source of confusion could be that Bayezid’s own mother was also called Gülbahar. He writes that there is no doubt that Ayşe was lawfully wedded to Bayezid, but that there is no indication of her being Selim’s mother, and he notes that it is curious that, when Selim had Ayşe’s father—and therefor, if she was indeed his mother, his grandfather—executed, chroniclers did not mention this fact.

Therefor she might have been Maria, the daughter of a Pontic Greek priest, or Ayşe, the daughter of Alaüddevle Bozkurt Bey

In keeping with the former, she supposedly was captured during the conquest of Trabzon and given to Bayezid

She gave birth to Selim I when Bayezid was still a şehzade and later accompanied Selim to Trabzon and Samandıra

Selim had the Hatuniye Külliyesi built in her name

She died before her son ascended the throne, and is buried in the Gülbahar Hatun Camii in Trabzon that was built in honor of her

According to Halil Edhem Eldem, archaeologist, the inscription of her tomb reads: “May Bânû-yı Rûm, who has turned her face from the world towards eternity, sit on the throne of Heaven and may God bless her”

Nigar Hatun

Her vakfiye reads “daughter of Abdullah”, this indicates that she was a slave concubine who converted to Islam upon entering the harem

She gave birth to Fatma Hatun, Ayse Hatun and Şehzade Korkut when Bayezid himself was still a şehzade

When Mehmed II died and Bayezid ascended the throne, she accompanied him to Constantinople

As expected of her, she went with Korkut when he was sent to Manisa and Antalya to govern

After Selim I had his brother executed, she returned to Antalya

Hüsnüşah Hatun

Some sources identify her as the mother of one Nasuh Bey, however, Sakaoğlu says that this is incorrect since she’s referred to as Hüsnüşah, daughter of Abdullah (see above)

She was the mother of Şehzade Şehinşah and Sultanzade Hatun

She corresponded with Selim I on behalf of Mevlana Pir Ahmed Çelebi, a scholar who had been at her sons court, and who was neglected when the members of the prince’s household were assigned new posts

She had the Hatuniye Mosque Complex built in Manisa, one of the “most beautiful” ones

Şirin Hatun

Her vakifye also describes her as “daughter of Abdullah”, so she too would have been a converted slave concubine

She gave birth to Bayezid’s first son, Şehzade Abdullah, when he was still a şehzade, and was the mother of Aynışah Hatun

Şirin accompanied Abdullah when he was sent to govern Manisa and Karaman

After her son’s death, she went to Bursa and later had a tomb built for him, where she would be buried

Sakaoğlu states she also had a mosque built in Trabzon

Gülruh Hatun

Mother of Şehzade Alemşah and Kamerşah Hatun

Alemşah was sent to govern Manisa, and Gülruh accompanied him

She put much effort into protecting her son, whose conduct Bayezid seems to have found unsatisfactory, as he ordered her to discipline him

In a letter to Bayezid she states “I have done everything I can to preserve order“ and Peirce writes “[she] goes on to present her case against seven members of her son’s suite—including his tutor (lala), his doctor, and his preceptor—to whom she attributes responsibility for the problems“ and expresses concerns about her son’s health

I will include an excerpt of her letter below:

My fortune-favored padishah, heed my cry for help,… rid us of [my son’s] tutor, teacher, and doctor. They are masters of corruption…. Send us good Muslims, because our situation has been pitiful since these persons arrived. They have deprived me of my mother’s rights…. If these seven do not go, they will utterly destroy the household of my son, your servant.

According to Uluçay, she had a mosque and a soup kitchen built in Akhisar, Aydın Güzelhisar and Duraklı

She died in the early days of Süleyman’s reign

Bülbül Hatun

Mother of Şehzade Ahmed and Hundi Hatun

Bayezid favored their son Ahmed as his successor, who was Selim’s principal rival

Sakaoğlu describes her as “benevolent”; she had built and endowed a religious college in Bursa, and a mosque and a soup kitchen in Ladik

In Amasya, she had another mosque, a school and a fountain built

She also had a tomb built for Ahmed, in which she was buried at her death

Ferruhşad/Ferahşad Hatun

Mother of Şehzade Mehmed

According to Sakaoğlu, Bursa’s registry refers to her as Muhterem Hatun; he suggests that she might have carried the double name Muhterem Ferruhşad

After her son’s death, she retired to Bursa

She established a foundation in Silivri in 1521

Mühümaz Hatun

Alderson names her as the mother of Şehzade Korkut and states that Fisher says he was the full-brother of Selim, and therefor son of Ayşe/Gülbahar

However, Uluçay corrected Şehzade Korkut’s mother as Nigar Hatun (see above), likewise  Sicill-i Osmanî does not mention a Mühürnaz/Mihrinaz among Bayezid’s wives

Therefor her existence/identity is disputed

Unnamed Hatun

Uluçay does not list her at all; Sakaoğlu refers to H. Hüsameddin, who writes that Bayezid’s first wife was the oldest daughter of Emir Bey

Alderson lists her as the mother of Şehzade Mahmud and Gevheri Muluk

Sources:

Alderson, Anthony Dolphin: The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty, Greenwood Press, 1982

Binous,  Jamila:  Early Ottoman Art: The Legacy of the Emirates, Museum With No Frontiers, 2002

Peirce, Leslie: The Imperial Harem. Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 2010

Sakaoğlu, Necdet: Famous Ottoman Women, Avea, 2007

Sakaoğlu, Necdet: Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları. Valide Sultanlar, Hatunlar, Hasekiler, Kadınefendiler, Sultanefendiler,  Basım Yayım Dağıtım San. ve T ic. Ltd. Şti, 2015

Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay: Padişahların kadınları ve kızları, Ankara, Ötüken. 2011

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Ottoman Princesses named: Hümâ-Şâh

"Hümâ-Şâh is a compound name of Persian origins: Hümâ is a bird from Persian mythology and may be translated as lucky bird or phoenix. It is also used alone as a name. Şâh is the Persian title of rulers."

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Sultan Bayezid II + harem and children

Consorts:

Ayşe Hatun (?? - 1512?): daughter of Alâüddevle Bozkurt Bey of the Dulkadir dynasty and possibly niece of Sitti Mukrime Hatun (consort of Mehmed II). She is usually given as mother of Selim I, but she was not. According to Alderson, she died in 1512.

Bülbül Hatun (?? - 1515): mother of Şehzade Ahmed and Hundi Sultan. She was a very charitable person, building a mosque complex in Ladik, another mosque, school and fountain in Amasya and a school in Bursa. When her son was executed by Selim I, she retired to Bursa where she built a tomb for him. She is buried next to her son.

Ferahşad Hatun (?? - after 1521): Şehzade Mehmed’s mother, she is variously called Ferruhşad or Muhterem. It is possible that her whole name was Muhterem Ferruhşad. Upon the death of her son in 1505, she retired to Bursa like it was customary for the mother of a deceased prince. She established a foundation in Silivri n 1521, so she must have died later.

Hüsnüşah Hatun (?? - after 1511): mother of Şehzade Şehinşah and Sultanzade. She followed her son first to Manisa and then to Konya. After Şehzade Şehinşah died, she settled in Bursa where she eventually died. She had built the Hatuniye Mosque in 1490 in Manisa during her son’s governorship there. She wrote to Selim I on behalf of Mevlana Pir Ahmed Celebi, one of Şehzade Şehinşah’s men who had not received a new post after the prince’s death.

(Ayşe) Gülbahar Hatun (?? - 1505): mother of Selim I, she was a slave concubine and not a highborn princess as tradition maintains. She died in Trabzon during her son’s princely post and she was buried in the Hatuniye Tomb there.

Gülruh Hatun (?? - after 1520): mother of Şehzade Alemşah and Kamer Sultan. During the reign of Bayezid II, she used to correspond with him about their son: “My fortune-favored padishah, heed my cry for help, … rid us of [my son’s] tutor, teacher, and doctor. They are masters of corruption…. Send us good Muslims because our situation has been pitiful since these persons arrived. They have deprived me of my mother’s rights…. If these seven do not go, they will utterly destroy the household of my son, your servant”. Alemşah would die because of heavy drinking, and Gülruh Hatun retired to Bursa. She died in the early days of Süleyman the Magnificent’s reign and was buried in the Gülruh Hatun Tomb in the Muradiye Mosque.

Nigar Hatun (?? - 1503): according to Uluçay and Oztuna, she was the mother of Şehzade Korkut and Fatma Sultan. She followed her son first in Manisa and then in Antalya, where she died and was buried.

Şirin Hatun (?-?): mother of Şehzade Abdullah and Aynışah Sultan according to Uluçay. She is not present in Sicill-i Osmani among Bayezid II’s consorts. It is not known when she died but she was buried with her son and daughter in her son’s tomb. She had built a school in Bursa and a mosque in Trabzon.

Children:

Damad Şehzade Abdullah (1465? - 6.11.1483): eldest son of Bayezid II, he was governor of Trabzon, Manisa and Konya, where he died. He is called Damad as well because he had married his cousin Ferahşâd Sultan, daughter of Mehmed II’s son Şehzade Mustafa. With her she had: a son (1481 - 1489), Aynışah Sultan (1482 - ??) and Şâhnisâ Sultan (1484 - ??). Both princesses reached adulthood as they both got married.

Ayşe Sultan (1465? - after 1515): according to Uluçay she may have been sister to Şehzade Ahmed or to Şehzade Korkut. She married Dâmâd Güveği Sinân Paşa around 1480 and had 6 children with him: Sultanzade Ahmed Bey, Sultanzade Mustafa Bey, Hanzade Ayşe Mihrihan Hanımsultan (who later married Dukagin-zâde Sultanzade Mehmed Paşa), Kamer-Şâh Hanımsultan (who later married Ahmed Bey son of Grand Vizier Mesîh Paşa), Fatma Hanımsultan (who later married Ahmed Bey son of Grand Vizier Mesîh Paşa) and Gevherşah Hanımsultan (who later married İbrahim Bey son of Ömer Bey). Ayşe Sultan built a mosque and a school in Gallipoli and in 1505 she established a foundation. She was buried in Istanbul.

Hatice Sultan (1465? - 1500): the identity of her mother is unknown. She firstly married Dâmâd Müderris Kara Mustafa Paşa around 1479 and had two children with him: Sultanzade Ahmed Çelebî (1480?-1500) and Hânzâde Hanımsultân. She secondly married Dâmâd Fâik Paşa sometime after 1483. Hatice Sultan built a mosque, school and fountain in Edirnekapi in Istanbul. She was buried in Bursa in the Hatice Sultan Tomb, built by her son.

Şehzade Ahmed (1466? - 24.4.1513): Selim I’s biggest opponent during the fight for the throne, he was Bayezid II’s favourite son and the one he wanted to be succeeded by. His only known consort was called Bülbül like his mother. Ahmed had several children: Şehzade Murad (1495 - 1519), Şehzade Alaeddin (1496? - 1513), Şehzade Süleyman (1497? - 1513), Şehzade Osman (1498? - 1513), Şehzade Ali (1499? - 1513), Şehzade Mehmed (1500? - 1513), Şehzade Kasim (1501 - 1518), Kamer Sultan (later wife of Dâmâd Mehmed Çelebî), Fatma Sultan (later wife of Dâmâd Mehmed Bey), and an unnamed princess (later wife of Dâmâd Silahdar Süleyman Bey)

Şehzade Korkut (1467 - 10.3.1513): another of Selim I’s opponents, he thought that he could quietly take the throne while Selim was busy with their brother Ahmed. He paid the janissaries for their support but when Selim arrived in Istanbul, they switched to his side. Governor of Amasya and then Manisa, he was allowed to return there after Bayezid II’s death but eventually Selim I had him executed. He had four children: two sons who died in infancy and Fatma Sultan (later wife of Dâmâd ‘Alî Bey) and Ferahşad Sultan (later wife of Dâmâd Malkoçoğlu ‘Alî Bey and Dâmâd Mehmed Balı Efendi)

Gevherimülûk Sultan (1467? - 1550): the identity of her mother is unknown. She married Dukaginzâde Dâmâd Ahmed Paşa and had two children with him: Nesl-i Şâh Hanımsultan (who married İskender Paşa) and Sultân-zâde Mehmed Paşa (who married his cousin Hanzade Ayşe Mihrihan Hanımsultan daughter of Ayşe Sultan). Gevherimülûk Sultan built a school near the Zal Mahmud Paşa Mosque, and she was buried there when she died.

Selçuk or Selçukşah Sultan (1469 - 1508): the identity of her mother is unknown. She firstly married Dâmâd Ferhâd Bey around 1484 and had two children with him: Nesl-i Şâh Hanımsultan (1486?-1550?) and Sultânzâde Gaazî Husrev Bey/Paşa (1484?-18.6.1541). She secondly married Dâmâd Mehmed Bey in 1486 and had three daughters with him: Hân-zâde Hanımsultan (who married her cousin, son of İlaldı Sultan), an unnamed daughter who married a son of Halil Paşa, and another unnamed daughter who later married Grand Vizier Yûnus Paşa. Selçuk Sultan died in 1508 and was buried in the Selçuk Sultan Mausoleum inside the Bayezid II Mosque in Istanbul.

Hundi Sultan (around 1470 - 1511): daughter of Bülbül Hatun and Şehzade Ahmed’s sister. She married Hersekzade Ahmed Paşa in 1484 and with him had: Sultânzâde Mûsâ Bey; Sultânzâde Mustafa Bey (governor of Bozok in 1533); Kamer-Şâh Hanım-Sultân; Hümâ-Şâh Hanım-Sultân (died after 1551)

Selim I (1470/1471 - 21 September 1520): 9th sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Şehzade Şehinşah (1474 - 1511): governor of Manisa and then Konya, he died at 37 years old and was buried in Bursa in the Muradiye Mosque near the Şehzâde Mustafa Tomb. His only known consort was Mükrime Hatun, mother of his son Şehzade Mehmed-Şah, who later married his own cousin Şahnisa Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Abdullah.

Şehzade Mahmud (1475 - 1507?): governor of Kastamonu and later of Manisa, where he died at 32 years old. He had three sons and two daughters: Şehzade Orhan, Şehzade Musa, Şehzade Emir-Süleyman (all executed on Selim I’s orders in 1512), Ayşe Hundi Sultan (later wife of Damad Ferruh Bey), Hançerli Fatma Sultan (later wife of Damad Mehmed Bey)

Şehzade Mehmed (1476? - 12.1504): governor of Kefe, where he died. He was married to a princess of the Giray Dynasty, and had two children: Fatma Sultan (1500? - 1556) and Şehzade Mehmed (1505 - 1515, postumous)

Şehzade Alemşah (1477 - 1502): governor of Menteşe and then Manisa, where he died. He had a son and two daughters: Şehzade Osmanşah (1492 - 1512), Ayşe Sultan (later wife of Sultanzade Dâmâd Mehmed Çelebî, son of Bayezid II’s daughter Fatma Sultan) and Fatma Sultan (?? - after 1520)

Aynışah Sultan (?? - after 1512): daughter of Şirin Hatun and sister of Şehzade Abdullah, she married Akkoyunlu Damad Göde Ahmed Bey in 1490. She had two daughters with him: Hanzade Hanımsultan (who later married Sultanzade Yahyapaşazade Balı Paşa) and an unnamed daughter who married her cousin Şehzade Alaeddin, son of Şehzade Ahmed. Aynışah Sultan built a school in Istanbul and established a foundation in 1506. She was one of the princesses who sent letters of congratulations to Selim I when he became sultan. She died after 1512 and was buried next to her mother and brother in Bursa.

Hüma/Hümaşah Sultan (?? - after 1504): the identity of her mother is unknown. She married Dâmâd Antalyalı Balı Paşa around 1482, but seemed not to have had any children. She was buried in Bursa near the Muradiye Tomb.

İlaldı Sultan (?? - before 1518): the identity of her mother is unknown. She married Dâmâd Ahmed Ağa (later Hâin Ahmed Paşa), governor of Rumelia and later governor or Egypt and Second Vizier. With his she had two children: Şâh-zâde Ayn-i Şâh Hanımsultan (who later married Abdüsselâm Çelebî) and a son (who later married a daughter of Selçuk Sultan). İlaldı Sultan wrote a letter of congratulations to Selim I on his accession. It is not known when she died and where she was buried.

Kamer or Kamerşah Sultan (?? - ??): daughter of Gülruh Hatun, she was married to Damad Nişancı Kara Davud Paşa. She had a daughter who later married one Mesih Bey. She was buried in the tomb of her mother in Bursa.

Şah or Şehzade Şah Sultan (?? - after 1506): the identity of her mother is unknown. She married Dâmâd Nasûh Bey around 1490 and had a daughter with him. Both husband and wife were very involved in charity deeds, and Şah Sultan even built a mosque in 1506. When she died she was buried in her sister Hatice’s mausoleum in Bursa.

Şah-zade Sultan (?? - 1520): according to Oztuna, she was a different princess from Şah. She married Malkoçoğlu Dâmâd Yahyâ Pasha in 1501/1502 and had three sons with him: Sultanzade Yahyapaşazade Gaazî Küçük Balı Paşa (?? - 1543), who married his cousin Hanzade Hanımsultan (daughter of Aynışah Sultan); Sultanzade Gaazî Koca Mehmed Paşa (?? - 2.1548), and Sultanzade Gaazî Ahmed Bey (?? - after 1543)

Sofu Fatma Sultan (?? - after 1515): daughter of Nigâr Hatun and sister of Şehzade Korkut. She married Dâmâd Güzelce Hasan Bey around 1504 and had two children with him: Sultanzade Dâmâd Mehmed Çelebi (who later married Ayse Sultan daughter of Şehzade Alemşah) and an unnamed daughter, who later married Ahmed Bey, son of Ali Bey and Fatma Hanımsultan (daughter of her sister Ayse). She was a very charitable person and left all her possession to the poor when she died. She was buried in the tomb of her half-brother Şehzade Ahmed in Bursa.

Sultanzade Sultan (?? - ??): daughter of Hüsnüşah Hatun and sister of Şehzade Alemşah, nothing else is known about her.

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Ottoman women who had the most children

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One aspect of life in the harem I always wondered about were the wet nurses. Did every child of a sultan have one? I assume they did, since that was the custom at the time with royal children. Were they slaves? If not, how were they picked? What was their standing in the harem? Do we know any of their names? I've heard that Süleyman was close to Yahya, son of his wet nurse; did royal children commonly interact with their milk siblings? Sorry for the many questions. :)

Oh yes, they definitely used wet nurses, like other high-ranking (or royal) households. Like in other Near Eastern or South Asian imperial courts, the wet nurse had a certain status.

Another woman who held great influence within the imperial harem in every period was the sultan’s wet nurse. She had a prestigious position, recognized through the honorific title “respectable” (izzetli) that was attributed to her. [...] The high status position held by the wet nurses was also reflected in their allowances. In the registers of the imperial harem’s food allocations (tayinat), only the sultan’s family members, the chief administrative official (kethüda kadın), and the wet nurse are listed individually. — Betül Ipsirli Argit, Life after the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage and the Imperial Ottoman Court

The wet nurses of the sultan's children carried, instead, the title of kalfa, which is a lower title in the harem management hierarchy.

Wet nurses were purchased when they were needed. Sem’dânî-zade Fındıklılı Süleyman Efendi, an XVIII-century chronicler, included this anecdote in his work:

During the reign of Abdulhamid I, the sultan’s consort became pregnant, and a wet nurse thus became necessary. Ulema and imams informed the members of the neighborhood, and the inns were searched for Circassian or Georgian women who were three months pregnant. [Sem’dânî-zade] added that these women were required to be pleasant and long-haired. — Argit, Life after the Harem

Mehmed II's wet nurse was called Hundi Hatun, according to Babinger:

Hundi Hatun, usually called Daye Hatun, a Turkish woman, is mentioned as his wet-nurse; in her later years she came to be extremely wealthy and built several mosques; she survived her young charge by several years and died in Istanbul on February 14, 1486... — Babinger, Mehmed The Conqueror and His Time

Peirce called her instead Umm GüIsüm:

Umm GüIsüm Khatun, the daye of Mehmed Il, conqueror of Constantinople, was sufficiently endowed with income by the sultan to undertake the construction of two mosques in Istanbul and one in Edirne: the neighborhood surrounding the latter came to bear her name. Her importance may have been due to the fact that Mehmed's mother died three years before he became sultan.

Öztuna, in Devletler ve Hanedanlar, calls her Ümmü Külşûm Hând Hâtûn which kind of settles it LOL. Hând and Hundî may have been the same name. He also adds more information about her:

This Hâtûn has a neighborhood and a mosque in Edirne, a mosque in Tarakcılar in Istanbul and a mosque and a madrasah in Demirkapı. She is buried in her mosque. Her daughter with Mustafa Çelebi: Hundî Hâtûn

Her daughter Hundi (whom, I guess, was born around Mehmed II's date of birth— unless she had more children) has been mistaken for a princess and a daughter of Murad II. He also adds that Ümmü Külşûm Hând Hâtûn's father was called Ahmed Bey and that there is a mosque in Bursa (built by him? where he is buried? he doesn't say).

Other wet nurses I have found (in Öztuna's book):

Bayezid II's was called Âsûde Hâtûn and she was buried in Âşıkpaşa, Fatih district.

Süleyman I's, as you said, was called Afife Hâtûn: she was married to Amasyalı 'Ömer Efendi, Trabzon's müftî, and had a son, Celâleddîn Yahyâ Efendi (the famous Yahyâ Efendi in whose tomb Raziye Sultan was reburied), who was born in 1495 in Trabzon around Süleyman I's date of birth (clearly lol).

Mustafa I's was married to Silâhdâr Lefkeli Mustafa Paşa in December 1617 (so, after Mustafa's accession to the throne). Her husband became Grand Vizier during the first months of Mustafa I's second reign for a couple of months. Argit is not sure that the wet nurse that married Mustafa Paşa was Mustafa I's or just one wet nurse inside the harem.

Mehmed IV's was Zafîre Hâtûn, who had a son named Osman (whom Ibrahim liked more than Mehmed IV himself). She was married to Mustafa Paşa, who was kapıcıbaşı (chief of the palace gatekeepers). Her son was captured by the Malteses.

Mustafa III's was Kapdân-ı Derya Dâmâd Küçük Hüseyn Paşa's mother.

Mustafa III's daughter Hibetullah Sultan's wet nurse was called Emine and may have been Aynü'l-Hayât Başkadın's sister

Peirce gave some more information about some other wet nurses:

The daye of Osman II performed the role of maternal stand-in [...]: during this time she received a stipend of 1.000 aspers a day, five times the daye's normal stipend. [...] The Venetian ambassador Garzoni reported in 1573 that Selim II "spends the greater part of his time playing chess with the mother of Ahmed Pasha, an elderly woman who was formerly his nurse, and delighting in witticisms that she is accustomed to telling him". Selim and his daye had other ties: she was married to the son of one of Bayezid II's daughters, and her son, Şemsi Ahmed Pasha, was a royal confidant of the sultan. The daughter of Mehmed III's daye was married to Lala Mehmed Pasha, who rose to serve as grand vezir, although only for a matter of days before he suddenly died. The husband of Murad IV's daye rose to the positions of head chancellor (nisançı) and governor of Egypt. — Peirce, The Imperial Harem

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Was Şehzade Mahmud the son of Bulbul Hatun? She was the mother of Şehzade Ahmed. Did Bayezid II break the tradition of a wife and a son?

In my posts about Bayezid II’s family, I said that Bülbül was the mother of Ahmed and Hundi Sultan (or more daughters). 

As far as I know, we don’t know the identity of Şehzade Mahmud’s mother and I’m also pretty sure that he didn’t break the one mother - one son rule. If there are multiple sons ascribed to the same concubine, it may be that one of them died in infancy (or that it’s a mistake)

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Hello, can you give me some information about Bayezid II's grandchildren? What was their situation during the reigns of Selim I and Suleiman? Did Suleiman treat them like his sisters? Were their positions equal to those of Selim's daughters?

Bayezid II had many children and even more grandchildren so this is going to be quite long. I think I have found some interesting ones, though.

Şehzade Abdullâh

He had three children but only one seems to have survived long enough to live in Süleyman I's reign: Şâh-nisâ Sultân. There is no date of death for her, but both her sons had appointments under Süleyman I:

Dâmâd Sultân-zâde "Şemsî" Ahmed Paşa: died in 1580, he was brought up in the Palace, became commander of the sipahi, then governor of Damascus, Rumelia and Anatolia. He participated in the Siege of Szigetvár, during which Suleyman I died. He became a vizier, but I don't know when. He had a son, Mahmûd Paşa, who was appointed governor of Şehrizor in 1578.

Sultân-zâde Mustafâ Paşa: died on 25 May 1569, he was a commander and third vizier during the 1566 Malta expedition. Afterwards, he went on holy pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, where he died.

Şehzâde Ahmed

Selim I's big challenger to the throne. His sons were all executed by their uncle, but his daughters survived: Kamer Sultân, who married a grandson of the famous İskender Paşa; Fatma Sultan, who married the son of Grand Vizier Koca Dâvud Paşa; and an unnamed princess, who married Süleyman Bey, a silahdar. It is unknown if they had any descendants.

Şehzâde Korkut

His sons were executed by Selim I, but his daughters survived:

Fatma Sultan: she married Alî Bey, governor of Kara (?). Having died after 1528, she lived into Süleyman I's reign.

Ferah-şâd Sultan: she married firstly Dâmâd Malkoçoğlu ‘Alî Bey and then Dâmâd Mehmed Balı Efendi. One of her granddaughters married firstly Sinân Paşa and then Güzelce Mahmûd Paşa.

Şehzâde Mahmûd

Hançerli Fatma Sultan: died around 1533, she married Dâmâd Mehmed Bey and had two sons with him, Sultân-zâde Kaasim Bey and Sultân-zâde Mustafa Bey

Ayşe Hundi Sultan: she married Dâmâd Ferruh Bey and had a daughter with him, Mihr-i Hân Hanım-Sultân

Şehzâde Mehmed

had a son who died in 1512 and a daughter: Fatma Sultan, who died in 1556. Nothing else is known about her.

Şehzâde Alem-Şâh

He had three children, a son executed in 1512 and two daughters:

Ayşe Sultan: died after 1520, she married her cousin, Sultân-zâde Dâmâd Mehmed Çelebî (son Fatma Sultan, daughter of Bayezid II)

Fatma Sultan: died after 1520, she was buried next to her father in Bursa. It is unknown if she was ever married.

Selçuk Sultan

twice married, she had five children:

Nesl-i Şâh Hanım-Sultân: died in 1564, she married Halîl Paşa in 1510

Sultân-zâde Gaazî Husrev Bey/Paşa: Öztuna hails him as "one of the greatest soldiers in the XVI century", he was governor of Sarajevo, which he developed into a great city. He was also responsible for spreading Islam in that part of Europe. He was also governor of Smederevo (1521), governor of Bosnia (1526-1533), then governor of Belgrade in 1533 and again governor of Bosnia from 1536 to 1541. He died in Sarajevo and was buried there.

With her second husband, Selçuk Sultan had:

Hân-zâde Hanım-Sultân: she married her cousin, a son of İlaldı Sultan (daughter of Bayezid II)

unnamed princess: she married the son of Halîl Paşa (her eldest sister's husband) in 1510

unnamed princess: she married twice, the first time to Grand Vizier Yûnus Paşa and the second time to Defterdâr Mehmed Çelebî, who would become Grand Vizier to Selim I for seven months. Afterwards, he became the first governor of Egypt and later governor of Damascus.

İlaldi Sultan

she had two children with her husband Hâin Ahmed Paşa:

Şâh-zâde ‘Ayn-i Şâh Hanım-Sultân: died after 1531, she married Abdüsselâm Çelebî, the son of başdefterdâr (treasurer) Abdü'l-‘Allâm

unnamed son: he married his cousin, the unnamed daughter of Selçuk Sultân

Gevher-mülük Sultan

Nesl-i Şâh Hanım-Sultân: died in 1559, she married İskender Paşa (from the Dukagin-zâde family)

Sultân-zâde Mehmed Paşa: died in 1557, he was governor of Aleppo and Egypt. He married his cousin Ayşe Hân-zâde Mihr-i Hân Hanım-Sultân (daughter of Ayşe Sultan, daughter of Bayezid II)

Ayşe Sultan

she had several children but we don't have information about each one of them, just some:

Gevher-Şâh Hanım-Sultân: she married one İbrahim Bey

Kamer-Şâh Hanım-Sultân: she married the son of Grand Vizier Mesîh Paşa

Fatma Hanım-Sultân: she married another son of Grand Vizier Mesîh Paşa

Şâh-zâde Hundi Sultan

Sultân-zâde Mustafa Bey: was governor of Bozok and died in 1533 killed by rebels in his province

Hümâ-Şâh Hanım-Sultân: died after 1551

Ayn-i Şâh Sultân

herself married to a Sultân-zâde, she had two daughters:

Hân-zâde Hanım-Sultân: married to Sultân-zâde Yahyâpaşa-zâde Gaazî Küçük Balı Paşa (yes, MC!Bali Bey)

unnamed princess: married Şehzâde ‘Alâeddîn, one of Velîahd-Şehzâde Ahmed's sons and therefore her cousin

Şâh-zâde Sultan

married to Malkoçoğlu Dâmâd Yahyâ Paşa, she had two sons:

Sultân-zâde Yahyâpaşa-zâde Gaazî Küçük Balı Paşa: died in Buda in 1548 (yes, MC!Bali Bey)

Sultân-zâde Gaazî Ahmed Bey: died in Buda after 1543

According to Öztuna, they were the two greatest commanders in the XVI century.

Unnamed princess

married to Grand Vizier Koca Dâvûd Paşa, she had a son:

Dâmâd Sultân-zâde Mehmed Bey: married Selim I's daughter Gevherhan Sultan in 1508

Fatma Sultan (!!!)

why the exclamation points, you may ask. Well, because one of her sons was Selim II's closest companion, which angered the other men at court

Sultân-zâde Hacı Ahmed Paşa: brought up in the Palace, he was governor of Damascus and Karaman, vizier, and Selim II's closest companion. He was deeply trusted by Murad III as well. He died in 1588.

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Do we know anything about Selim I relationship with his sisters? I know Aynisah wrote him a letter of congratulations when he ascended the throne but that’s it really

Sorry for the wait, I’m still sick, unfortunately. 

Selçuk (or Selçukşah) Sultan: according to both Öztuna e Sakaoğlu (Alderson too), she died before Selim I's accession, either in 1508 or in 1512.

Hatice Sultan: she died in 1500 according to Öztuna. She was in Bursa and Selim I was governor of Trabzon at that time so I don't think they had much of a relationship.

İlaldi Sultan: when Selim I ascended the throne, she congratulated him with a letter but stated that "current affairs" prevented her from going to Istanbul. Uluçay says that she doesn't figure among the princesses receiving a stipend in 1518 so she must have died before that.

Gevherimülük Sultan: even though she died in 1550 at the age of 83-ish years old, I could not find anything linking her to Selim I. This is most probably due to the fact that, according to Öztuna, she was Şehzâde Ahmed's sister. Şehzâde Ahmed was Selim I's big challenger to the throne, also because he was supported by Bayezid II himself.

Ayşe Sultan: according to Sakaoğlu she died after 1512, Öztuna says instead that she was alive up until 1515. She may have been a sister of Şehzâde Ahmed or Şehzâde Korkut, which would explain why she didn't seem to have any link with Selim I.

Hundi Sultan: she was Şehzâde Ahmed and died in 1511.

Şâh-zâde Sultan: she died in 1520 but I couldn't find anything.

Şah Sultan: she died after 1506 and she may have been a sister of Şehzâde Ahmed

Hüma Sultan: she died in 1504 in Bursa.

Unnamed princess: no information about her, only that she married Dâmâd Muslih Bey

Unnamed princess [2]: no information about her, only that she married Dâmâd Gaazî Yâ'kub Paşa who had, apparently, been Sultan Cem's tutor.

Unnamed princess [3]: we do not have a date of death for her but I think it's interesting that her son married Şehzâde Ahmed's daughter Fatma Sultan.

Kamer Sultan: she was Şehzâde Alemşâh's sister but we do not have dates of birth or death. Sakaoğlu calls her Kamer-Şâh but Öztuna claims they are two different princesses.

Kamer-Şâh Sultan: no date of death but I think it's interesting that she married Dâmâd Mustafa Paşa, called by Öztuna "Şehzâde Ahmed's vizier". If she was truly that closely linked to Ahmed, I doubt that she was in high favour with Selim I (if she was alive when he became sultan, of course)

Sofu Fatma Sultan: sister of Şehzâde Korkut, she spent her days in Bursa mourning her brother after his execution. We don't have a date of death but she was buried in Şehzâde Ahmed's mausoleum in Bursa.

Fatma Sultan: according to Öztuna, she was a different princess from Sofu Fatma. She died before 1512 but her son married Selim I's daughter Gevherhan Sultan in 1509, so she and her husband must have been on his side.

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Murad II harem + children:

Consorts: 

(Hatice) Halîme/Alîme Hâtûn: Sakaoğlu claims that Hatice and Halime were two different consorts, aunt and niece, who both married Murad II but at different times. Halime was İsfendiyar Bey’s daughter and the woman Murad II married in the 1420s, but having died in the 1440s, the sultan proceeded to marry her niece, Hatice, daughter of her brother İbrahim II Bey. This theory would explain Küçük Ahmed’s late birth (1450).

Hümâ Hâtûn (?? - September 1449): Mehmed II's mother, her identity has not been established so far but she definitely was not a French princess, as later Ottoman chroniclers would claim.

Mara Hâtûn (??-14.9.1487): daughter of George Branković, despot of Serbia, she married Murad II as a young girl in September 1435. She was known in Europe as Sultanina or Sultana Maria. She was highly respected by Mehmed II, who used to call her "my mother" in official documents.

Hundi/Ümmügülsüm Hâtûn (??-14.2.1486): it is not exactly known whether she was one consort or two. Babinger writes that Hundi Hatun was Şehzâde 'Alâeddîn 'Alî's mother, other family trees indicate that she was called Ümmügülsüm and her daughter was called Hundi while it is also stated that she was called Hundi Ümmügülsüm.

Yeni Hâtûn: Sakaoğlu claims she was, in fact, Şehzâde 'Alâeddîn 'Alî's consort and not Murad II's.

Children:

Şehzâde Ahmed the Elder (1419-1420)

Şehzâde 'Alâeddîn 'Alî (1425-6.1443): Murad II's favourite son, he was governor of Manisa for a year and later governor of Amasya. He joined the 1443 Karaman expedition with his father and while he returned to Amasya he fell from a horse and died. He was buried in the Muradiye Complex in Bursa. At the time of his death he had two sons: Şehzâde Giyâşüddîn (1441-1445) and Şehzâde Tâceddîn (1442-1443)

Şehzâde Isfendiyâr (1425-1425): his mother was Halime Hatun, which is why he bears her father's name

Hatice Hatun (1425-??): she married Cândâroğlu Dâmad Kemâleddîn Bey and had three sons with him: Haşan Bey, Yahyâ Bey and Mahmûd Bey. Her descendants were still alive during the reign of Abdülmecîd I in the XIX century.

Hafsa Hatun (1426-??): she married Cândâroğlu Sultânzâde Dâmâd Kaya Bey, the son of her aunt Sultan Hatun, daughter of Mehmed I.

Fatma Hatun (1430-??): she married Dâmâd Zağanos Mehmed Paşa and had two children with him: Hamza Bey and Ahmed Çelebî. Ahmed Çelebî would become an important adviser to Bayezid II

Şehzâde Hüseyn (??-1439): he died as a child

Şehzâde Orhân (??-1441): he died as a child

Şehzâde Hasan (??-1444): he died as a child

Erhundi/Hundi Hatun: she married Dâmâd Yâ'qûb Bey, who would become Sultan Cem's royal tutor

Şehzâde Selçuk Hatun (??-1480): she was married twice, firstly to Dâmâd Güveyi Karaça Paşa and then to Dâmâd Yûsuf Sİnâneddîn Paşa. She was buried next to Şehzâde 'Alâeddîn 'Alî.

Mehmed II the Conqueror (1432-1481): 7th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Şehzâde Ahmed the Younger (1450-18.2.1451): son of Hatice Hatun, he was executed by Mehmed II