Esma Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III)
| Esma Sultan | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spouse |
Damat Yakup Pasha Muhsinzade Mehmed Pasha | ||||
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| House | House of Osman | ||||
| Father | Ahmed III | ||||
| Mother | Zeynep Kadınefendi | ||||
| Born |
14 March 1726 Istanbul, the Ottoman Empire | ||||
| Died |
13 August 1788 Istanbul, the Ottoman Empire | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
Esma Sultan (14 March 1726 - 13 August 1788) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed III and his consort Zeynep Kadınefendi. She was the half sister of Sultan Mustafa III and Abdul Hamid I.[1]
Biography
Esma Sultan was born as the daughter of Sultan Ahmed III and his consort Zeynep Kadınefendi. She was the half sister of Sultan Mustafa III and Abdul Hamid I. She is said to be curious about the west. She received the wife and mother-in-law of the Baron de Tott, the Huerved as military adviser to the Turkish government for many years, and not only discussed with them the liberty of European women, but expressed the dissatisfaction with the system that her married her, at seventeen, to Damat Yakup Pasha 19 February 1743, an old man who had treated her as a child. That pasha having died, she then married Muhsinzade Mehmed Pasha on 23 June 1758, a younger man more to her liking, but the practice of sending the princesses husbands to distant governorships kept them apart. She died in 1788.
References
- ↑ Sicil-i Osmani, Mehmet Süreyya Bey, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, ISBN 975-333-038-3 Istanbul, 1996.
