Hatice Sultan (daughter of Selim I)

Hatice Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: خدیجه سلطان‎; Ḫadīce Sulṭān) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim I and Hafsa Sultan. She was the sister of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

Hatice Sultan
The sarcophagus of Hatice Sultan is located inside the Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque in Istanbul.
Born	c. 1495[1] Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died	after 1543[1] Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Yavuz Selim Mosque, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Spouse	Kapudan Iskender Pasha
Issue	Hanım Sultan (died 1582)
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Selim I
Mother	Hafsa Sultan
Religion	Islam

Biography

Hatice's birth date is unknown, but she had to be born before 1494.[2] She was the daughter of Şehzade Selim (the future Selim I) and his concubine Hafsa. She may have married Damat Iskender Pasha in 1509, an Ottoman governor and later admiral who was executed in 1515.[2]

It had long been believed that Hatice Sultan subsequently married the Grand Vizier Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha. However, in the late 2000s research conducted by the historian Ebru Turan revealed that this claim was not based on solid evidence, and that in fact no such marriage ever took place between them. As a result, historians now generally agree that Ibrahim married another woman, Muhsine Hatun, and not Hatice.[3]

Depictions in literature and popular culture

In the TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Hatice Sultan is played by Turkish-German actress Selma Ergeç.[4]In the series, she is inaccurately portrayed as Ibrahim Pasha's wife and mother of his children.

See also

• Ottoman family tree
• Ottoman Emperors family tree (simplified)

References

1. Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 202. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
2. Peirce, Leslie (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 304n62. ISBN 0-19-508677-5.
3. Turan, Ebru (2009). "The Marriage of Ibrahim Pasha (ca. 1495-1536): The Rise of Sultan Süleyman's Favorite to the Grand Vizierate and the Politics of the Elites in the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire". Turcica. 41: 3–36.
   • Şahin, Kaya (2013). Empire and Power in the reign of Süleyman: Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World. Cambridge University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-107-03442-6.
   • Peirce, Leslie (2017). Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire. Basic Books. p. 157. Muhsine, granddaughter of an illustrious statesman, is now largely accepted as Ibrahim's wife.
4. "'Hatice Sultan woman of love'". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 2017-11-03.