Peyveste Hanımefendi

Peyveste Hanımefendi
Beşinci Ikbal (Hanımefendi)
Tenure 24 January 1893 - 11 April 1895
Dördüncü Ikbal (Hanımefendi)
Tenure 11 April 1895 - 17 June 1901
Üçüncü Ikbal (Hanımefendi)
Tenure 17 June 1901 – 21 January 1909
İkinci Ikbal (Hanımefendi)
Tenure 21 January 1909 – 27 April 1909
Spouse Abdul Hamid II
Issue Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri Efendi
Full name
Peyveste Hanımefendi
House House of Emukhvari (by birth)
House of Osman (by marriage)
Father Osman Emukhvari
Mother Hesna Çaabalurhva
Born Rabia Emuhvari
10 May 1873
Pitsunda, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died c. 1943 (aged 69–70)
Paris, France
Burial Bobigny Cemetery, Paris
Religion Sunni Islam

Peyveste Hanımefendi (born Rabia Emuhvari; 10 May 1873 - c. 1943; Ottoman Turkish: پیوسته خانم افندی) was the tenth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.

Biography

Peyveste Hanımefendi was born on 10 May 1873 in Pitsunda, Georgia and was a member of the Abkhazian dynasty, Emuhvari. Born as Rabia Emukhvari, she was the youngest daughter of Prince Osman Bey Emuhvari and his wife Princess Hesna Hanım Çaabalurhva, an Abkhazian.[1] She had an elder brother Ahmed Bey Emukhmari and three elder sisters, Eda Hanım, Nurhayat Hanım and Mahşeref Hanım [wife of Prince Mehmed Refik Bey Achba and the mother of Leyla Achba]. She had green eyes, and long brunette hair for much of her life.

In 1877, during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), her family emigrated from the Caucasus to Istanbul, where she was delivered at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. First, she was given to serve Nazikedâ Kadınefendi [first wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and mother of Ulviye Sultan] and was renamed Peyveste. She was then given the position of the Head Treasurer of Abdul Hamid's harem. However, soon the Sultan Abdul Hamid II took notice of Peyveste, and they married on 24 January 1893 in the Yıldız Palace, the Sultan's residence at the time.

One year later, upon the birth of their son, Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri Efendi[2] Abdul Hamid II ordered the building of a small palace for his young wife. However, Peyveste had not succeeded in binding the sultan to her, and already in 1896, Abdul Hamid II had moved to another young princess. Soon, he made his new favorite Fatma Pesend Hanım Efendi his 11th wife. Peyveste, disappointed in her husband, retreated from the court life and dedicated herself to the upbringing of her son. Among Abdul Hamid's wife she was closest to Sazkar Hanımefendi.

During the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that overthrew her husband's autocratic rule and restored constitutional monarchy, Peyveste, who already was raised to a rank of a great duchess, followed her husband in exile. One year later, she returned to Istanbul with her son and bought a mansion in Şişli and took Sazkar Hanım along. In 1924, she went into a second exile and lived with her son first in Naples and Rome, and later in Paris, where she died in 1943. The great duchess Peyveste was buried in the Muslim cemetery at Bobigny in Paris.[3][4]

Issue

Together with Abdul Hamid, Peyveste had a son:

Titles and styles

References

  1. ↑ Bir Çerkes prensesinin harem hatıraları. L & M. 2004. ISBN 978-9-756-49131-7.
  2. ↑ "Genealogy of the Ottoman Royal Family".
  3. ↑ Christopher Buyers. "The Royal Ark – Royal and Ruling Houses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas". 4dw.net.
  4. ↑ The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem - Page 286

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