Emine Sultan ( ota, امینہ سلطان; "''trustworthy''" or "''benign''"; 1 September 1696 – 1739) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Mustafa II and half-sister of Sultans Mahmud I and

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Life

Birth

Emine Sultan was born on 1 September 1696. 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 Emine could have been born in Belgrade or Edirne. She was the second daughter of Sultan Mustafa II. 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

When Emine was five, Mustafa had her betrothed to the beylerbey (governor-general) of Damascus, Hasan Pasha. This engagement was annulled in 1701 and the same year she was engaged to

Çorlulu Ali Pasha Çorlulu Damat Ali Pasha ( in Çorlu – 1711 in Lesbos) was an Ottoman grand vizier who held the office from 1706 to 1710. Early life and career As his surname indicates, Ali was born in Çorlu in , the son of a peasant or barber. His handso ...

, then her father's sword-bearer. On 8 April 1708, Emine on her uncle Sultan Ahmed III's behest was wed to Çorlulu Ali Pasha, then Grand Vizier. She had 12 and her husband 38. Both Emine's trousseau and her wedding processions headed for the grand vizier's palace which was just across the road from the Alay Köşkü. Both processions, led by top dignitaries, left from the Imperial Gate, passing by the Cebehane (the Church of St Irene), the Baths of

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, and through the street called Soğukçeşme to reach the grand vizier's palace. Her husband gifted her diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other jewels, plus 2.000 piece of gold. After Ali Pasha's death in 1711, Emine married

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, the beylerbey of

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in 1712, after, Ibrahim Pasha in 1724. She divorced one of them almost immediately, without even seeing him to warn him, because she judged that his organization of the pilgrimage to Mecca was "detestable" and that, for this, he had shamed himself, her and the whole imperial family. Finally, she married Abdullah Pasha on 1 June 1728. The latter died in 1736. Not are know children born by this marriages. After her fourth marriage she chose not to remarry anymore.

Charity

In 1715, Emine commissioned a fountain near the Çivizade Mosque in Topkapı.

Death

Emine Sultan died in 1739, and was buried in Mevlevihane Kapısı, Istanbul.

Ancestry

References

Sources

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