Feride Hanımsultan

Feride Hanımsultan (Ottoman Turkish: فریدہ خانم سلطان; "unique"; 30 May 1847 – December 1920) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Atiye Sultan and Ahmed Fethi Pasha and the granddaughter of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II.

Feride Hanımsultan
Born	30 May 1847 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	December 1920 (aged 73) Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul
Spouse	Mahmud Nedim Pasha ​ ​ (m. 1868; died 1904)​
Issue	Mehmed Saib Bey
Names Turkish: Feride Hanımsultan Ottoman Turkish: فریدہ خانم سلطان
Father	Ahmed Fethi Pasha
Mother	Atiye Sultan
Religion	Sunni Islam

Biography

Feride Hanımsultan was born on 30 May 1847.^[1] Her father was Ahmed Fethi Pasha, son of Rodoslu Hafız Ahmed Agha^[2] and Saliha Hanım,^[3] and her mother was Atiye Sultan, daughter of Sultan Mahmud II and Pervizifelek Kadın.^[4][5] She had a full sister, Seniye Hanımsultan, three years elder than her. She also had five paternal half-siblings, brothers Mehmed Besim Bey and Damat Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha, who married Cemile Sultan, daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I, and sisters, Ferdane Hanım, Saliha Yeğane Hanım and Emine Güzide Hanım.^[6][7]

After their mother's death in 1850, Feride and Seniye came of the possession of their mother's palace in Emirgan, while Atiye's palace in Arnavutköy was allocated for the guests, who visited the empire. Later their palace in Emirgan was given to the governor of Egypt, and the two of them were allocated to the villa of Rıza Pasha. Later the two of them came of the possession of the palace in Arnavutköy.^[8]

In 1868, she married Mahmud Nedim Pasha.^[8][9][10] The two together had a son, Mehmed Saib Bey, born on 1861, who died on 26 November 1871.^[11] She was widowed at his death in 1904.^[12] In 1912, the "Hilal-i Ahmer Centre for Women" was organized within the "Ottoman Hilal-i Ahmer Association", a foundation established in 1877 to provide medical care in Istanbul and surrounding communities.^[13] As a member of the foundation, Feride was obliged to give the foundation 1500 kuruş every year.^[14]

Feride died in December 1920, and was buried in Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul.^[8][15]

Honour

• Order of the House of Osman^[16]

Issue

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
Mehmed Saib Bey	1869	26 November 1871	Died young, and buried in Eyüp

Ancestry

Ancestors of Feride Hanımsultan
8. Hasan Agha[7] 4. Rodoslu Hafız Ahmed Agha[17] 2. Ahmed Fethi Pasha[7] 7. Saliha Hanım[3] 1. Feride Hanımsultan 12. Abdul Hamid I[18] 6. Mahmud II[19] 13. Nakşidil Sultan[18] 3. Atiye Sultan[7] 7. Pervizifelek Kadın[19]

References

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2. Çelikkol, Zeki (1992). Rodos'taki Türk eserleri ve tarihçe. 6. Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi. p. 87. ISBN 978-975-16-0514-6.
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4. Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 557. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
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6. Çağlar, Burhan (September 11, 2011). İngiliz Said Paşa ve Günlüğü (Jurnal). Arı Sanat Yayinevi. p. 93. ISBN 978-9-944-74225-2.
7. Haskan, Mehmet Nermi (2001). Yüzyıllar boyunca Üsküdar. Yüzyıllar boyunca Üsküdar. Üsküdar Belediyesi. p. 197. ISBN 978-975-97606-0-1.
8. Şehsuvaroğlu, Halûk Y. (1948-10-30). "Arnavutköy sahilsarayı (Boğaziçi lisesi)" (PDF). Akşam (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-03-17.
9. Bey, M.S.; Akbayar, N.; Kahraman, S.A. (1996). Sicill-i Osmanı̂. Eski yazıdan yeni yazıya. Kültür Bakanlığı ile Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı'nın ortak yayınıdır. p. 1651. ISBN 978-975-333-044-2.
10. Yerdoğan, Ali Emre (2019). Cerîde-i Askeriyye Gazetesi'nin Tasnîfi (1864-1870) (Thesis) (in Turkish). Aydın Adnan Menderes University Institute of Social Sciences. p. 29.
11. Bey, Mehmet Süreyya (1969). Osmanlı devletinde kim kimdi. Küğ yayını. Küğ Yayını. pp. 143, 261.
12. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 9.
13. Hacker, Barton; Vining, Margaret (17 August 2012). A Companion to Women's Military History. BRILL. p. 199. ISBN 978-9-004-21217-6.
14. Ahmet Zeki İzgöer; Ramazan Tuğ (2013). Padişahın himayesinde Osmanlı Kızılay Cemiyeti 1911-1913 yıllığı. Türkiye Kızılayı Derneği. p. 50. ISBN 978-605-5599-14-0.
15. Bardakçı, Murat (1991). Son Osmanlılar: Osmanlı hanedanının sürgün ve miras öyküsü. Gri Yayın. p. 158.
16. Osmanoğlu, A. (1984). Babam Sultan Abdülhamid: hatıralarım. Selçuk Yayınları. p. 105.
17. Örenç, A.F. (2006). Yakındönem tarihimizde Rodos ve Oniki Ada. Doğu Kütüphanesi. p. 270. ISBN 978-9944-397-09-4.
18. Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
19. Rıza, Ali; Çoruk, Ali Şükrü (2001). Eski zamanlarda İstanbul hayatı. Eski zamanlarda İstanbul hayatı. Kitabevi. p. 301. ISBN 978-975-7321-33-0.