Hafize Hafsa Sultan was an Ottoman princess, daughter of

Selim I Selim I ( ota, سليم الأول; tr, I. Selim; 10 October 1470 – 22 September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute ( tr, links=no, Yavuz Sultan Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Despite last ...

and, presumably, of his favorite

Hafsa Hatun Hafsa Hatun ( ota, حفصه خاتون) was a Turkish princess, and the wife of Bayezid I, 14th century, of the Ottoman Empire. Life Hafsa Hatun was the daughter of Isa Bey, the ruler of the Aydinids. She was married to Bayezid in 1390 upon his ...

. She was therefore the sister or at least half-sister of

Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman I ( ota, سليمان اول, Süleyman-ı Evvel; tr, I. Süleyman; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver ( ota, قانونى سلطان سليمان, Ḳ� ...

. Her firstname meaning "''keeper''", while her second name meaning "''young lioness''".

Origins

Hafize, also called Hafsa, Hafisa or Hafiza by the sources, was born not after 1493 in Trebizond, on the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Roma ...

, by the then

Şehzade ''Şehzade'' ( fa, شهزاده) is the Ottoman form of the Persian title '' Shahzadeh'', and refers to the male descendants of an Ottoman sovereign in the male line. This title is equivalent to " prince of the blood imperial" in English. Origi ...

Selim, son of

Bayezid II Bayezid II ( ota, بايزيد ثانى, Bāyezīd-i s̱ānī, 3 December 1447 – 26 May 1512, Turkish: ''II. Bayezid'') was the eldest son and successor of Mehmed II, ruling as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, ...

and governor of the province. The identity of her mother is uncertain, but most of her believe she is the daughter of

, Selim's favorite of Crimean origin and mother of his successor

. The year of her birth is unknown, but, if she really was Hafsa's daughter, she would have been born before 1492 or 1493.Hafsa had another certain daughter, Hatice Sultan, referred to as the youngest. She was also Fatma's mother, and possibly Beyhan's mother. Also, she was Suleiman's mother. According to Leslie Peirce, the rules at the time dictated that concubines mothers of a male child no longer share the sultan's bed. If this is true, all of Hafsa's daughters must therefore have been born before 1494, the year of Suleiman's birth. In 1512, her father became sultan. Hafize could have joined him in

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

, if she was the daughter of a secondary concubine, or, if she was the daughter of Hafsa, she could have remained, together with her sisters, as was the tradition for unmarried princesses, with her mother, who followed her son as usual. Suleiman in his various posts as governor in Kaffa,

Edirne Edirne (, ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, ...

and

Manisa Manisa (), historically known as Magnesia, is a city in Turkey's Aegean Region and the administrative seat of Manisa Province. Modern Manisa is a booming center of industry and services, advantaged by its closeness to the international port cit ...

, later leaving her at the time of her first marriage.

Marriage

Hafize Sultan married twice: * She married for the first time in 1511. Her first husband was

Grand Vizier Grand vizier ( fa, وزيرِ اعظم, vazîr-i aʾzam; ota, صدر اعظم, sadr-ı aʾzam; tr, sadrazam) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. The office of Grand Vizier was first ...

Dukaginzade Ahmed Paşa, executed in 1515. * Her second husband, married in 1522, was Boşnak Mustafa Paşah. From this marriage she had her only child, a son, Sultanzade Kara Osman Şah Paşah.

Death

Hafize died on July 10, 1538, in Constantinople. She was buried next to her father in the

Yavuz Selim Mosque The Yavuz Selim Mosque, also known as the Selim I Mosque and the Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque ( tr, Yavuz Selim Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman imperial mosque located at the top of the 5th Hill of Istanbul, Turkey, in the neighborhood of Çukurbos ...

References

Bibliography

* Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, . * Uluçay, M. Çağatay (1992). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. * Yılmaz Öztuna - Yavuz Sultan Selim * Necdet Sakaoğlu - Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları {{Daughters of the Ottoman Sultans Ottoman Empire