Fatma Emetullah Sultan (daughter of Mehmed IV)

Fatma Emetullah Sultan
Died(1700-05-29)29 May 1700
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Mausoleum of Turhan Sultan, New Mosque, Eminönü, Constantinople
Spouse
Çerkes Ibrahim Pasha
(m. 1695; died 1697)

Topal Yusuf Pasha
(m. 1697; died 1700)
IssueFirst marriage
Rukiye Hanimsultan
Second marriage
Safiye Hanimsultan
DynastyOttoman
FatherMehmed IV
MotherEmetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan
ReligionSunni Islam

Fatma Emetullah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: امت الله فاطمه سلطان; died 29 May 1700, Constantinople[1][2]) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Mehmed IV and his Haseki Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan. She was the sister of Sultans Mustafa II and Ahmed III.

Early life

She was born to Mehmed IV and his favorite consort and Haseki Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan.[3] Her second name was given in honor of her mother. She was the sixth and last child of her parents and their fourth daughter.

Marriages

Her brother, Mustafa II, married her to Tırnakçı Çerkes Ibrahim Pasha in September 1695, whom he had first granted the rank of deputy of Silistre, and whom he later had executed in September 1697. They had a daughter.

She subsequently married Topal Yusuf Paşa in 1697. They had a daughter.[4][5]

Issue

By her first marriage, Fatma had a daughter:

  • Rukiye Hanimsultan (1696–1720), who married Sirke Osman Pasha who, after her death, married her cousin Emetullah Sultan in August 1720.

By her second marriage, Fatma had a second daughter:

  • Safiye Hanimsultan (1697/1700–1711).[6]

Death

Fatma Sultan died on 29 May 1700, from plague, tuberculosis, or, according to other sources, postpartum complications. During the funeral, she was accompanied by a procession of statesmen together with her husband. She was buried in the Turhan Sultan Mosque, her paternal grandmother, next to her father.

References

  1. ^ Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları page 110
  2. ^ Goranovic Lazar (2026) Lives of Ottoman Women (Hürrem and Gülnuş) page 6
  3. ^ Majer, Hans Georg (1992). The Journal of Ottoman Studies XII: The Harem of Mustafa II (1695-1703). p. 441.
  4. ^ Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara, Ötüken. p. 110.
  5. ^ Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha (2001). Nusretnâme: Tahlil ve Metin (1106-1133/1695-1721). pp. 135, 458–9, 841.
  6. ^ According to Necdet Sakaoğlu, Safiye was also a daughter of her first marriage. If this were true, and it's also true that Fatma had died in childbirth, it would mean that Fatma had an unknown third child with her second husband, stillborn or dying shortly after birth.