Anna Komnenos (daughter Of David Of Trebizond)

Anna Mega Komnene ( Modern Greek: Άννα Μεγάλη Κομνηνή, transliterated: Anna Megalē Komnēnē, know also as Anna Hatun, ota, آنا فاتنة; 1447 - after 1463), was a Byzantine princess, daughter of the last emperor of Trebizond, David II of Trebizond and his wife Helena Kantakouzene.

She became one of the consorts of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror.

Biography

Her father offered her as a wife to Sultan Mehmed II when he captured Constantinople in 1453, but he refused. However, in 1461, after Mehmed conquered Trebizond, he decided to add Anna to his harem. However, it is improbable that the union was ever consummated: for several generations already, the Ottoman dynasty no longer fathered children with foreign noblewomen, to avoid external interference in the succession.

In 1463, Mehmed executed David and his nephew Alexius on charges of communicating with the sultan's enemies. Anna was suspected of having facilitated the exchange of letters, but in the end she suffered no consequences.

In the same year, however, Mehmed married her to his vizier, Zagan Pasha, who had previously been married to his half-sister Fatma Hatun. In return, Mehmed married Hatice Hatun, one of Zagan's daughters by his first wife, Sitti Nefise Hatun.

Anna's fate is not certain. According to some sources, Anna was killed by her husband because she did not want to convert, according to others, widowed or divorced, she remarried Elvanbeyzade Sinan Bey.

It is not known when she died, nor where she was buried.

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* {{cite book, author=Yavuz Bahadıroğlu, date=2007, language=tr, oclc=235010971, publisher=Nesil yayınları, title=Resimli Osmanlı tarihi, url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/resimli-osmanl-tarihi/oclc/235010971

1447 births
15th-century Byzantine women
Kantakouzenos family
Palaiologos dynasty
15th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans
Mehmed the Conqueror