Zübeyde Sultan

Zübeyde Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: زبیدہ سلطان‎; 29 March 1728 – 4 June 1756) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed III (reign 1703 – 1730) and half-sister of Sultans Mustafa III (reign 1757 – 1774) and Abdul Hamid I (reign 1774 – 1789) of the Ottoman Empire.

Zübeyde Sultan
Born	29 March 1728 Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	4 June 1756 (aged 28) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Imperial Ladies Mausoleum, Yeni Mosque, Eminönü, Istanbul
Spouse	Damad Süleyman Pasha ​ ​ (m. 1748; died 1748)​ Damad Numan Pasha ​ (m. 1749)​
Full name Turkish: Zübeyde Sultan Ottoman Turkish: زبیدہ سلطان‎
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Ahmed III
Mother	Emine Muslihe Kadın
Religion	Sunni Islam

Life

Zübeyde Sultan was born on 28[1] or 29 March[2] 1728, Her father was Sultan Ahmed III,[3][4] and her mother was Emine Muslihe Kadın.[5] She had a full sister named Ayşe Sultan, nine years older than her.[6]

Her father having been dethroned in 1730, she grew up at the Old Palace but was able to live in comfort,[1] as he had had the farmstead of Dilsiz Mehmed Ağa, situated near Edirne, and thus its incomes, allocated to her.[3][1]

Her cousin Mahmud I had a yalı, or waterfront manse, built for her at the precincts of Eyüp[3] in around August 1747.[4]

On 6 January 1748, during Mahmud’s reign, Zübeyde was married firstly to Süleyman Pasha,[4][7] Beylerbey (governor – general) of Anatolia and Vizier, who, though, died soon after, some six months into the marriage.[8] Thus, she was married secondly, within the year, on 6 January 1749, to Numan Pasha,[4][9] kapıcılar kethüdası, or head of the Imperial Palace Guards, Sanjak-Bey (provincial governor) of Thessaloniki and Kavala, and Vizier.[3][8] Her husband would go on to serve in various other provincial posts.[8]

Turkish historian Mustafa Çağatay Uluçay describes the princess as a “philanthropist, protector of the poor, who read day and night”.[3]

Death

Like the majority of her siblings, Zübeyde Sultan did not live long, dying of natural causes at the age of twenty-eight,[8] on 4 June[4] 1756.[10] She was entombed in the Imperial Ladies Mausoleum, located at Yeni Mosque, Istanbul.[3][4][8]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Zübeyde Sultan
16. Ahmed I 8. Ibrahim 17. Kösem Sultan 4. Mehmed IV 9. Turhan Sultan 2. Ahmed III 5. Gülnuş Sultan 1. Zübeyde Sultan 3. Emine Muslihe Kadın

References

1. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 321.
2. Râşid 2013, p. 1588.
3. Uluçay 1985, p. 92.
4. Haskan 2008, p. 393.
5. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 420.
6. Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı 1976, p. 9.
7. Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı 1976, p. 139.
8. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 322.
9. Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı 1976, p. 140.
10. Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı 1976.

Sources

• Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 303. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
• Târîh-i Râşid ve Zeyli (Râşid Mehmed Efendi ve Çelebizâde İsmaîl Âsım Efendi) (1071-1141/1660-1729) Cilt I-III. 2013. ISBN 978-6-055-24512-2.
• Haskan, Mehmed Nermi (2008). Eyüp Sultan tarihi – Volume 1. Eyüp Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları. ISBN 978-9-756-08704-6.
• Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (1985). Padışahların kadınları ve kızları. Türk Tarihi Kurumu Yayınları. p. 220.
• Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı, Süleyman Efendi (1976). Aktepe, M. Münir (ed.). Şemʼdânî-zâde Fındıklılı Süleyman Efendi târihi Mürʼiʼt-tevârih-Volume 1. Edebiyat Fakültesi Matbaası.