Ümmügülsüm Sultan
| Ümmügülsüm Sultan | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spouse | Damat Ali Pasha | ||||
| |||||
| House | House of Osman | ||||
| Father | Ahmed III | ||||
| Mother | Emine Mihrişah Kadınefendi | ||||
| Born |
7 February 1708 Istanbul, the Ottoman Empire | ||||
| Died |
November 1732 Istanbul, the Ottoman Empire | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
Ümmügülsüm Sultan (7 February 1708 - November 1732) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed III and his consort Emine Mihrişah Kadınefendi.
Biography
Ümmügülsüm Sultan was born as the daughter of Sultan Ahmed III and his consort Emine Mihrişah Kadınefendi. She was one of the fifty two children and thirty daughters of her father. In 1709 at the age of about two, she was engaged to the elderly Abdurrahman Pasha, a vizier. It was an expensive affair for the pasha. He sent to Topkapı a great number of valuable engagement presents, the nişan takimları: to his fiancée a seal ring, an aigrette, six bohças of cloth, as well as flowers and fruits on trays; to the padishah a handsome horse, a jeweled belt, and five bohças of fabric; to the başkadın diamond bracelet and five bohças of fabric. presents were also given to other kadıns, princesses, princes and those who arranged the ceremony. Çağatay Uluçay estimates that the engagement cost Abdurrahman more than 10,000 lira. But the pasha died before the marriage could take place.
Ümmügülsüm, when sixteen, was married to Damat Ali Pasha on 6 January 1724 with a wedding celebration that rivaled her sister Fatma's. Yet her life was a trouble one. She and her husband soon found themselves in financial straits, and she appealed to her father for help. There is a letter from her to "My Sublime Sultan," pointing out the woeful financial condition of his slave, her husband the pasha. Unfortunately Ahmed III's reaction to the letter could not be found, but undoubtedly he gave her some help, although the state of Treasury was so serious by this time that the sum offered may have been limited. The Patrona Halil rebellion against her father ended whatever good days Ümmügülsüm may have had, and in November of 1732, at the age of twenty four, she died.
References
- "Turkey: The Imperial House of Osman". web.archive.org. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- Fanny Davis (1986). The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-24811-5.
