Gevherhan Hatun ( ota, کوھرخان خاتون "''Gem of the Khan''") was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of
Mehmed the Conqueror
Mehmed II ( ota, محمد ثانى, translit=Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; tr, II. Mehmed, ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror ( ota, ابو الفتح, Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit=the Father of Conquest, links=no; tr, Fâtih Su ...
(reign 1444–46 and 1451–81) and
Gülbahar Hatun Gülbahar is a Turkish given name for females and may refer to:
* Gülbahar Hatun, consort of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, and Valide Sultan as the mother of Sultan Bayezid II
* Gülbahar Hatun, consort of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II and the mother of ...
. She was the sister of Sultan
Bayezid II (reign 1481–1512).
Early life
Gevherhan Hatun was the daughter of Sultan
Mehmed II known as "The Conqueror", and his concubine
Gülbahar Hatun Gülbahar is a Turkish given name for females and may refer to:
* Gülbahar Hatun, consort of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, and Valide Sultan as the mother of Sultan Bayezid II
* Gülbahar Hatun, consort of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II and the mother of ...
. She was the full sister of Sultan
Bayezid II.
Marriage
In 1474, Gevherhan married
Ughurlu Muhammad, a son of
Aq Qoyunlu ruler,
Uzun Hassan
Uzun Hasan or Uzun Hassan ( اوزون حسن; fa, اوزون حسن; 1423 – January 6, 1478; where ''uzun'' means "tall" in Oghuz Turkic) was a ruler of the Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler. H ...
. Ughurlu Muhammad had rebelled against his father and sought refuge by the Ottomans. Her father welcomed him and got him married to Gevherhan.
Gevherhan's marriage to Ughurlu Muhammad was the only exception, which actually proved the rule. Ughurlu Muhammad being an exile from his own land and refugee at the Ottoman court, the Aq Qoyunlu prince might be considered a kind of adjunct member of the Ottoman royal household.
Mehmed installed his new son-in-law in the frontier province of
Sivas
Sivas (Latin and Greek: ''Sebastia'', ''Sebastea'', Σεβάστεια, Σεβαστή, ) is a city in central Turkey and the seat of Sivas Province.
The city, which lies at an elevation of in the broad valley of the Kızılırmak river, is ...
and promised to supply him with arms and men, with which he would assert his claim to his patrimony at the proper moment.
Ughurlu Muhammad was killed in the rebellion he attempted against his father in 1477.
Of this marriage,
Göde Ahmed was born. Because of his father's death, Mehmed had his grandson brought to Istanbul.
Ahmed married his uncle Sultan
Bayezid II's daughter
Aynışah Sultan in 1489.
After that date, there is no news of Gevherhan, although, according to some sources, she remarried to
Sinan Pasha
Koca Sinan Pasha ( tr, Koca Sinan Paşa, "Sinan the Great"; c. 1506 - 3 April 1596) was an Albanian-born Ottoman Grand Vizier, military figure, and statesman. From 1580 until his death he served five times as Grand Vizier. In a Ragusan docume ...
, an important statesman under Bayezid II who is said to be married to the sultan's sister.
It is possible that he was Gevherhan's second husband or that he was married to one of Bayezid's half-sisters (Bayezid doesn't appear to have any other full sisters) and the source doesn't mention the difference between full sister and half-sister.
Death
When she died around 1514, she was buried beside her mother in her mausoleum located in
Fatih Mosque, Istanbul.
In popular culture
In the 2013 Turkish series ''
Fatih'', Gevherhan Hatun is played by Turkish actress
Hande Soral.
Ancestry
References
Sources
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{{Daughters of the Ottoman Sultans
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Year of death missing
15th-century Ottoman princesses