Safiye Sultan (daughter of Mustafa II)

Safiye Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: صفیہ سلطان; "purity"; 13 October 1696 – 15 May 1778) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Mustafa II, and half-sister of Sultans Mahmud I and Osman III of the Ottoman Empire.

Safiye Sultan
Born	13 October 1696 Edirne Palace, Edirne, Ottoman Empire or Belgrade, Serbia
Died	15 May 1778(1778-05-15) (aged 81) Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial	Mausoleum of Hafsa Sultan, Yavuz Selim Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey
Spouse	Maktulzade Ali Pasha ​ ​ (m. 1710; died 1723)​ Mirzazade Mehmed Pasha ​ ​ (m. 1726; died 1728)​ Kara Mustafa Pasha ​ ​ (m. 1730; died 1736)​ Ebubekir Pasha ​ ​ (m. 1740; died 1759)​
Issue	First marriage Sultanzade Ebubekr Bey Sultanzade Bayezid Bey Zahide Hanımsultan Second marriage Sultanzade Sadik Mehmed Bey
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Mustafa II
Mother	Afife Kadin?
Religion	Sunni Islam

Life

Birth

Safiye Sultan was born on 13 October 1696.^[1] At the time of her birth her father was traveling to Austria and part of his harem awaited him in Belgrade, while the rest remained in Edirne. Therefore Safiye could have been born in Belgrade or Edirne. Her father was the Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II, while her mother was probraly Afife Kadin.^[2][3]

In 1703 her father was deposed in favor of his younger brother Ahmed III and she, with her half-sisters, locked up in the Old Palace until her marriage.

Marriages

Safiye was betrothed at the same time as her sisters Emine Sultan and Ayşe Sultan, to the son of Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, known as Maktulzade Ali Pasha, and Beylerbey (governor - general) of Adana at the time. The marriage took place on 6 May 1710, during the reign of her uncle Sultan Ahmed III. The wedding procession travelled only a short distance from the Imperial Gate, through Cebehane and Soğukçeşme road to the princess's palace at Demirkapı, known as "Rami Pasha's palace", where the marriage was consummated.^[4][5] Soon afterwards, in June 1710, the bridegroom was sent away to Diyarbekir to serve as provincial governor. By him, Safiye had two sons and a daughter.^[6]

After Ali Pasha's death in 1723, Safiye married Mirzazade Mehmed Pasha on 1 July 1726. By him, she had a son.^[7][8] After Mehmed Pasha's death in 1728, she married Kara Mustafa Paşah, Grand Vizier, in 1730. After Mustafa's death in 1736, she married Ebu Bekr Pasha in 1740, during the reign of her half-brother Sultan Mahmud I. She was widowed at his death in 1759.^[9][8]

Issue

Safiye Sultan had three sons and a daughter.^[9][8][10]

By her first marriage she had:

• Sultanzade Ebubekr Bey
• Sultanzade Bayezid Bey
• Zahide Hanımsultan (1722 - 6 February 1790). She married Ebu Bekr Efendi's son Elhac Suleiman Bey. Ebu Bekr was the second husband of Afife Kadin, one of former Mustafa II's consort.

By her second marriage Safiye had:

• Sultanzade Sadik Mehmed Bey (1727 - 1780).

Charities

Safiye Sultan is known to have made vakfs for Hagia Sophia, Sultan Mehmed, Sultan Bayezid and Valide Sultan mosques. In 1729, she commissioned a fountain near the Bulgurlu Mosque in Üsküdar. In 1780, two years after her death, a fountain was commissioned between Paşabahçe and Tepeköy in Bosphorus.^[9][11]

Death

Safiye Sultan died on 15 May 1778, and was buried outside the mausoleum of Hafsa Sultan, Yavuz Mosque, Istanbul.^[12] Her daughter, Zahide was buried beside her.^[9]

She was one of the more long-lived Ottoman princess.

See also

• List of Ottoman princesses

Ancestry

Ancestors of Safiye Sultan (daughter of Mustafa II)
16. Ahmed I 8. Ibrahim 17. Kösem Sultan 4. Mehmed IV 9. Turhan Sultan 2. Mustafa II 5. Gülnuş Sultan 1. Safiye Sultan 3. Unknown consort

References

1. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 437.
2. Uluçay 2011, p. 121.
3. Afife Kadin had a daughter from Mustafa II born in 1696 and whose identity is uncertain, but it is likely that she was Safiye, because Safiye's daughter married the son of Ebu Bekr, Afife's second husband. Plus, Safiye named his first son Ebubekr.
4. Uluçay 2011, p. 121-22.
5. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 408.
6. Duindam, Artan & Kunt 2011, p. 358-9.
7. Duindam, Artan & Kunt 2011, p. 355 n. 35.
8. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 409.
9. Uluçay 2011, p. 122.
10. Karateke, Hakan T. (2007). An Ottoman protocol register: containing ceremonies from 1736 to 1808, BEO Sadaret defterleri 350 in the Prime Ministry Ottoman State Archives, Istanbul. Ottoman Bank Archive and Research Centre. p. 112. ISBN 978-9-944-73102-7.
11. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 410.
12. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 408, 410.

Sources

• Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları (in Turkish). Ankara: Ötüken.
• Duindam, Jeroen; Artan, Tülay; Kunt, Metin (August 11, 2011). Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires: A Global Perspective. BRILL. ISBN 978-9-004-20622-9.
• Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler (in Turkish). Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.