Safiye Sultan ( ota, صفیہ سلطان; "''purity''"; 13 October 1696 – 15 May 1778) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of

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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 ...

, and half-sister of Sultans

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 ...

and

Osman III Osman III ( ota, عثمان ثالث ''Osmān-i sālis'';‎ 2 January 1699 – 30 October 1757) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 to 1757. Early life Osman III was born on 2 January 1699 in the Edirne Palace. His father was Must ...

of the

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Life

Birth

Safiye Sultan was born on 13 October 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 Safiye could have been born in Belgrade or Edirne. Her father was the Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II, while her mother Is unknown. In 1703 her father was deposed in favor of his younger 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 ...

and she, with her half-sisters, locked up in the Old Palace until her marriage.

Marriages

Safiye was betrothed at the same time as her sisters Emine Sultan and Ayşe Sultan, to the son of Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, known as Maktulzade Ali Pasha, and

Beylerbey ''Beylerbey'' ( ota, بكلربكی, beylerbeyi, lit=bey of beys, meaning the 'commander of commanders' or 'lord of lords') was a high rank in the western Islamic world in the late Middle Ages and early modern period, from the Anatolian Seljuks ...

(governor - general) of

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at the time. The marriage took place on 6 May 1710, during the reign of her uncle Sultan

. The wedding procession travelled only a short distance from the Imperial Gate, through Cebehane and Soğukçeşme road to the princess's palace at Demirkapı, known as "Rami Pasha’s palace", where the marriage was consummated. Soon afterwards, in June 1710, the bridegroom was sent away to Diyarbekir to serve as provincial governor. By him, Safiye had two sons and a daughter. After Ali Pasha's death in 1723, Safiye married Mirzazade Mehmed Pasha on 1 July 1726. By him, she had a son. After Mehmed Pasha's death in 1728, she married Kara Mustafa Paşah,

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 ...

, in 1730. After Mustafa's death in 1736, she married Ebu Bekr Pasha in 1740, during the reign of her half-brother Sultan

. She was widowed at his death in 1759.

Issue

Safiye Sultan had three sons and a daughter. By her first marriage she had: *Sultanzade Ebubekr Bey *Sultanzade Bayezid Bey *Zahide Hanımsultan (1722 - 6 February 1790). She married Ebu Bekr Pasha's son Elhac Suleiman Bey. By her second marriage Safiye had: *Sultanzade Sadik Mehmed Bey (1727 - 1780).

Charities

Safiye Sultan is known to have made ''vakfs'' for Hagia Sophia, Sultan Mehmed, Sultan Bayezid and Valide Sultan mosques. In 1729, she commissioned a fountain near the Bulgurlu Mosque in Üsküdar. In 1780, two years after her death, a fountain was commissioned between Paşabahçe and Tepeköy in Bosphorus.

Death

Safiye Sultan died on 15 May 1778, and was buried outside the mausoleum of

Hafsa Sultan Hafsa Sultan ( ota, حفصه سلطان, "''Young lioness''"; or before – 19 March 1534), also called Ayşe Hafsa Sultan, was a concubine of Selim I and the first Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the mother of Suleiman the Magnificent. Dur ...

, Yavuz Mosque, Istanbul. Her daughter, Zahide was buried beside her. She was one of ottoman princess more long-lived.

Ancestry

References

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