Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi

Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi
Kadınefendi of the Ottoman Empire
Başkadınefendi
Tenure 3 July 1918 – 1 November 1922
Spouse Mehmed VI
Issue Münire Sultan
Fatma Ulviye Sultan
Rukiye Sabiha Sultan
Full name
Turkish: Nazikedâ
English: Nazuk Ada
Ottoman Turkish: نازك ادا
House House of Marshania (by birth)
House of Osman (by marriage)
Father Hasan Ali Marshania
Mother Fatma Horecan Aredba
Born Emine Marshan
9 October 1866
Tsebelda, Abkhazia, Russian Empire
Died April 4, 1941 (aged 74)
Cairo, Egypt
Burial Abbasiye Cemetery
Religion Sunni Islam

Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi (October 1866 – 4 April 1941; born Princess Emine Marshan; Ottoman Turkish: نازك ادا فادين افندی) was the Kadınefendi of the Ottoman Empire as the first wife and chief consort of Sultan Mehmed VI.

Biography

Emine Nazikeda Kadınefendi was born on 9 October 1866 in Tsebelda, when Abkhazia came under Russian Empire. Born as Emine Marshan, she was a member of Abkhazian-Georgian princely family Marshania. Her father was Prince Hassan Bey Marshania (1836-1877) and her mother was Princess Fatma Horecan Hanım Aredba, an Abkhazian.[1][2] She was the paternal granddaughter of Prince Ismail Bey. In 1877, Emine along with her sisters, Daryal and Naciye Hanım and cousins, Amine, Rumeysa, Pakize, Fatma and Kamile Hanım left their city of birth and arrived at Istanbul, where they were delivered at the palace of Cemile Sultan. Her aunt, Suzidil Hanım was a Lady-in-waiting to Cemile Sultan. She had two elder brothers Prince Mehmed Bey and Prince Abdülkadir Bey,[note 1]

She spent her childhood in the palace of Cemile Sultan where she took private lessons of piano. She was also interested in horse riding and used to ride horse at the park of Cemile Sultan's palace. She was a Lady-in-waiting to Cemile Sultan's daughter Fatma Hanımsultan. In 1884 she was noticed by Şehzade Vahideddin Efendi and he fell in love with her. He asked Cemile Sultan for her hand in marriage. She was married to Şehzade Vahideddin Efendi in the Ortaköy Palace, Constantinople, on 8 June 1885. She was declared as his principal consort. Three years after marriage She gave birth to Münire Sultan, the in 1892 and 1894 to Fatma Ulviye Sultan and Rukiye Sabiha Sultan respectively.[1]

During the Turkish War of Independence which occurred between 19 May 1919 to 24 July 1923, she supported charity organisations, schools, hospitals and mosques. In 1922, Mehmed was deposed and exiled. She, together with other members of his family, was kept in house arrest at the Feriye Palace by order of the new parliament until 10 March 1924, when they were also sent into exile. She lived in San Remo in Italy until the death of her spouse in 1926, thereafter in France and from 1929 in Cairo, where she died in poverty on 4 April 1941 and was buried in Abbasiye Cemetery.[1][3][4]

Issue

Together with Mehmed, Emine Nazikedâ had three children:

Notes

  1. ↑ Also Abdulkadir Marschania of Tzebelda, turkish Name: Marşania Abdülkadir Bey, lived from 1862 to 1928.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harun Açba (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
  2. ↑ Bir Çerkes prensesinin harem hatıraları. L & M. 2004. ISBN 978-9-756-49131-7.
  3. ↑ Yılmaz Öztuna (1989). İslâm devletleri: devletler ve hanedanlar. Kültür Bakanlığı. ISBN 978-9-751-70469-6.
  4. ↑ M. Çağatay Uluçay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
  5. ↑ Genealogy Of The Imperial Ottoman Family (2005)

Succession

Ottoman royalty
Preceded by
Kamures Kadınefendi		 Başkadınefendi
3 July 1918 – 1 November 1922 		Succeeded by
Şehsuvar Kadınefendi