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Mustafa II Mustafa II (; ota, مصطفى ثانى ''Muṣṭafā-yi sānī''; 6 February 1664 – 29 December 1703) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1695 to 1703. Early life He was born at Edirne Palace on 6 February 1664. He was the son of Sult ...

, issue = Osman III

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, burial_date = , burial_place = Nuruosmaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey Şehsuvar Sultan ( ota, شهسوار سلطان; 1682 – 27 April 1756; "''courage of the Şah''") was a consort to the Ottoman Sultan

(r. 1695–1703) and Valide Sultan to their son Osman III (r. 1754–1757).

Life

Şahsuvar Sultan was born in 1682. She became a concubine of Sultan Mustafa. Şahsuvar and Mustafa had one son, Osman III, born on 2 January 1699, in the

Edirne Palace Edirne Palace ( tr, Edirne Sarayı), or formerly New Imperial Palace ( ota, Saray-ı Cedid-i Amire) is a former palace of the Ottoman sultans in Edirne (then known in English as Adrianople), built during the era when the city was the capital of th ...

. In 1702, Mustafa II gave her two bracelets with rubies and diamonds. The

Edirne event The Edirne Incident ( ota, Edirne Vaḳʿası, script=Latn) was a janissary revolt that began in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1703. The revolt was a reaction to the consequences of the Treaty of Karlowitz and Sultan Mustafa II's absence fro ...

saw Mustafa dethroned, with his brother

Ahmed III Ahmed III ( ota, احمد ثالث, ''Aḥmed-i sālis'') was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687). His mother was Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at H ...

succeeding as the new Sultan (r. 1703–1730), and Şahsuvar was sent to the Old Palace, Istanbul. On the other hand, her son, Şehzade Osman was transferred to the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul together with the entire court. Sultan

Mahmud I Mahmud I ( ota, محمود اول, tr, I. Mahmud, 2 August 1696 13 December 1754), known as Mahmud the Hunchback, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754. He took over the throne after the Patrona Halil rebellion and he kept goo ...

, Mustafa's first son and the older half-brother of Osman, succeeded as Sultan following Patrona Halil's orchestrated riot. Mahmud was then succeeded by his half-brother Osman, thus Şahsuvar became the new Valide sultan. Valide sultans were usually transported to Topkapı Palace by carriages. However, Şahsuvar was brought to the palace in a palanquin. The sultan, who had not seen his mother for many years, ordered his sword girding ceremony to be held a few days after the arrival of his mother to the palace. In 1755, Şahsuvar persuaded her son, not to execute the grand vizier, Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha, who had been imprisoned in the

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. This proved to be an example of beneficent influence.

Death

Şahsuvar Sultan died on 27 April 1756 in the Topkapı Palace, and was buried in a separate mausoleum located at the Nuruosmaniye Mosque, Çemberlitaş, Fatih, Istanbul.

Issue

Together with Mustafa, Şahsuvar had one son and a daughter: * Osman III (Edirne Palace, Edirne, 2 January 1699 - Istanbul, Turkey, 30 October 1757, buried in Tomb of Turhan Sultan, New Mosque, Istanbul). 25th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. *

(1701-19 Aprile 1727). She married once and she had a daughter.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sehsuvar Sultan 1682 births 1756 deaths 17th-century Serbian people 18th-century Serbian people 17th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans 18th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans Valide sultan

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