Hund Şehzade ( ota, خوند شاهزادہ; 1422 – July 1455) was an Ottoman princess, granddaughter of claimant to the throne

Süleyman Çelebi Süleyman Çelebi (also Emir Süleyman; d. 17 February 1411) was an Ottoman prince () and a co-ruler of the Ottoman Empire for several years during the Ottoman Interregnum. There is a tradition of western origin, according to which Suleiman th ...

, and great granddaughter of Sultan

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(r.1389 – 1402) of the

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. She was wife of

Barsbay Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Dīn Bārsbay ( Circassian: Барасбий ал-Ашрэф Сэфудин) ( ar, الأشرف سيف الدين برسباي) was the ninth Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt from AD 1422 to 1438. He was Circassian by birth and a ...

, and later of

Sayf ad-Din Jaqmaq Sayf ad-Din Jaqmaq ( ar, الظاهر سيف الدين جقمق; 1373 – 13 February 1453) was the Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 9 September 1438 to 1 February 1453. Early life and career Jaqmaq was of Circassian descent. He was brought to Eg ...

, Egypt Sultans of the

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Early life

Born in 1422 as Fatima Şehzade, she was the daughter of Orhan Çelebi, son of

, who was himself the son of Sultan

. She had a younger brother named Süleyman Çelebi (1423 – 1437). In 1433, Şehzade and her brother Süleyman took refuge in Cairo. The Mamluk Sultan Barsbay treated them generously, and rejected her cousin

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's requests to surrender them.

First marriage

In 1436,

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, attacked the

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, and captured the disputable town of

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and other fortresses in its vicinity. However, the Dulkadirids retook Kayseri and the surrounding countryside from the

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in December 1436 with Ottoman help. Upon receiving this news Barsbay in March 1437, assembled his advisory council, and decided to send the governors of

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to help Ibrahim Bey. However, before the crisis escalated, and turned into a military clash, both Ottoman and Mamluk Sultans settled their differences two months later in May. A peace agreement was settled, with Barsbay's marriage to Şehzade.

Second marriage

After Barbay's death in 1438, his successor Sultan Sayf-al-Din Jaqmaq married Şehzade, in order to consolidate good relations with the Ottomans. On 5 January 1447, she made a pilgrimage with the dowry she received at the time of her marriage to Jaqmaq. The two together had four sons. All of them died of plague at Cairo on 26 March 1449. The eldest one named Ahmed being seven years old. Jaqmaq divorced her on 25 December 1450.

Third marriage

After Jaqmaq divorced Şehzade, she settled in a house in al-Jawdariyya, and married ''Sahib-al-Hujjab'' Barsbay Bujashi.

Death

Şehzade died in July 1455 in

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