Ayşe Sultan ( ota, عائشہ سلطان; "''the living one''" or "''womanly''"; 30 April 1696 – 26 September 1752), also called Büyük Ayşe Sultan, was an Ottoman princess, daughter of

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and half-sister of Sultans

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and

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of the

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Life

Birth

Ayşe Sultan was born on 30 April 1696 at 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 t ...

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. 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 Ayşe could have been born in Belgrade or Edirne. She was the eldest daughter and child of Sultan

. She was then nicknamed Büyük Ayşe, who meaning Ayşe "''the eldest''", to distinguish her from her cousin, Ayşe "''the younger''" (Küçük Ayşe), daughter of

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. 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

In 8 April 1708, Ayşe Sultan was married to Fazıl Mustafa Pasha's son Köprülüzade Numan Pasha, then the governor of Belgrade, to whom she had remained betrothed since she was seven. Her dowry was 20,000 ducats. The wedding was held together with that of his half-sister Emine Sultan. A month later, after sending on her trousseau, Ayşe and her equally magnificent procession left for the Zeyrek Palace that had been allocated to her. But instead of accompanying Ayşe Sultan all the way to Zeyrek, a neighbourhood to the northwest of the Valens Aqueduct, the dignitaries went only as far as the grand vezir's palace. From this point onwards, the more functional core of the procession, comprising the princess and her trousseau, was taken to the Zeyrek palace in a relatively quiet and unostentatious way. The marriage was consummated on March 1710. Numan Pasha became the grand vizier in 1710, and some months after he became the

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, where he died in 1719. After Numan Pasha's death, Ayşe on 6 February 1720 was married secondly to Silahdar Tezkireci Ibrahim Pasha, previously a sword-bearer of Sultan

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. The marriage was consummated on 20 August 1720. Ayşe became widow in 1722. Following Ibrahim Pasha's death, she married Koca Mustafa Pasha on 18 August 1725. Mustafa Pasha died in 1728. There are no known children born from these marriages. After the death of her third husband, Ayşe decided not to marry again and spent the rest of her life in her palace in

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Death

Ayşe Sultan died on 26 September 1752 at the age of fifty-six, and was buried next to father inher great-grandmother Turhan Sultan's mausoleum, located at New Mosque at Eminönü in

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. Following her death, her palace was allocated to her cousin Ayşe "The Younger" Sultan.

Ancestry

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