Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Murad III)
Ayşe Sultan (c. 1570, Manisa - 15 May 1605) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Murad III and his favourite consort Safiye Sultan. She was the sister of Sultan Mehmed III.
Biography
On 20 My 1586, she was married to Damat Ibrahim Pasha who, thanks to his marriage, three times held the post of Grand Vezir. After the death of the pasha Ayşe Sultan was engaged to Damat Yemişçi Hasan Pasha on 5 April 1602, but he was executed and the wedding never took place. On 29 June 1604, the sultan’s daughter married Güzelce Mahmud Pasha and died two years later. Ayşe Sultan was famous for her charity. In her testament she gave the following instructions for her inheritance: her slaves and slavegirls were to be manumitted unconditionally; 10,000 akçes were bequeathed to cover the cash debts of people detained in prison for debts of up to 500 akçes; 2,000 akçes were for the poor, sick and orphans, and the remainder – for the poor in the Holy Cities of Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. A certain amount of money was allocated to pay the ransom for Muslim women taken in captivity. She died in Istanbul on 15 May 1605.
References
- "Turkey: The Imperial House of Osman". web.archive.org. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- Narodna biblioteka "Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiĭ. Orientalski otdel, International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture (2003). Inventory of Ottoman Turkish documents about Waqf preserved in the Oriental Department at the St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library: Registers. Narodna biblioteka "Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiĭ.
