Şehzade Bayezid (; November 1612 - 27 July 1635) was an Ottoman prince and son of Sultan

Ahmed I Ahmed I ( '; ; 18 April 1590 – 22 November 1617) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the first breach in the Ottoman tradition of royal fratricide; henceforth, Ottoman rulers would no ...

and Mahfiruz, the Sultan's first concubine.

Life

He was born to

and Mahfiruz, the Sultan's first consort. He was a few months younger than his half-brother Şehzade Murad (future sultan

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). When Ahmed died on 22 November 1617, he was placed in the Kafes with his half brothers

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, Murad, Selim, Kasim and Ibrahim in unknown period during the reign of his uncle sultan

Mustafa I Mustafa I (; ‎; ; 1600/1602 – 20 January 1639) was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 22 November 1617 to 26 February 1618, and from 20 May 1622 to 10 September 1623. He was the son of sultan Mehmed III and Halime Sultan. Earl ...

and brother

Osman II Osman II ( ''‘Osmān-i sānī''; ; 3 November 1604 – 20 May 1622), also known as Osman the Young (), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 26 February 1618 until his regicide on 20 May 1622. Early life Osman II was born at Topkapı Pa ...

. After Mustafa was deposed and replaced by Osman, his half-brother Mehmed was executed under the orders of Osman one year before being murdered by his enemies, which brought Mustafa once again to the throne. After Mustafa was deposed for a second time, Bayezid's half-brother Murad was placed in the throne before him due to being older by a few months. However, on 27 July 1635, he was executed along with his half-brothers

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and Selim. The orders were carried out by Murad, because he had reason to believe that the Janissaries were about to rebel to overthrow him.

Death

He was murdered under the orders of Murad, on 27 July 1635, in Topkapı Palace due to some rumors that Murad's enemies wanted Bayezid enthroned. He was buried in the Ahmed I Mausoleum, Sultan Ahmed Mosque.

In literature and popular culture

Jean Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ; ; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tr ...

wrote a play called Bajazet which was based on the life of Şehzade who was preferred on the throne over the existing sultan his brother

. * Şehzade Bayezid is portrayed by Yiğit Uçan in the 2015 Turkish historical non-fiction TV series '' Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem''. In the series, he is the son of a fictional concubine named Gülbahar Sultan,In the series, all concubines who gave a child to a Sultan or to a Şehzade are entitled "Sultan". In historical reality, the title was reserved for

Haseki Sultan Haseki Sultan (, ''Ḫāṣekī Sulṭān'' ) was the title used for the chief consort of an Ottoman sultan. In later years, the meaning of the title changed to "imperial consort". Hurrem Sultan, principal consort and legal wife of Suleiman the ...

, who for Ahmed was only

Kösem Sultan Kösem Sultan (; 1589 – 2 September 1651), also known as Mahpeyker Sultan (;), was the Haseki sultan, Haseki Sultan as the chief consort and legal wife of the List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I, Valide sultan, Vali ...

. The other concubines were simply entitled " Hatun" (Woman, Mistress or lady). and his death does not match the historical one, although he is still executed by Murad.

References

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