Rabia Şermi Kadınefendi

Rabia Şermi Kadınefendi (née Ida) (ca. 1698 – 1732) was the wife of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III and mother of Abdul Hamid I.

Râbi'a Şerm-î (Sharmî)^[1] was born as Ida in France or Circassia, initially the third and then the second French or Circassian spouse of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III. She was the mother of Sultan Abdul Hamid I.^[2] However, she was never Valide Sultan to her son because she died in 1732, forty-two years before Sultan Abdul Hamid I's accession to the Ottoman throne.^[3] Her name "Şerm-î" "(Sharmî)" simply means "belonging to gift". All the remaining Ottoman Sultans are the descendants of Râbi'a Şerm-î (Sharmî) Kadın Effendi.

The burial place of Rabia Şermi is located inside the tomb of Turhan Hadice Valide Sultan, the mother of Sultan Mehmed IV, in Yeni Mosque, Eminönü, Istanbul.

See also

• Ottoman family tree
• List of consorts of the Ottoman Sultans

Further reading

• Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-508677-5 (paperback).
• Yavuz Bahadıroğlu, Resimli Osmanlı Tarihi, Nesil Yayınları (Ottoman History with Illustrations, Nesil Publications), 15th Ed., 2009, ISBN 978-975-269-299-2 (Hardcover).

References

Mothers of the Ottoman Sultans Halime Hatun Malhun Hatun Nilüfer Hatun Gülçiçek Hatun Devlet Hatun Emine Hatun Hüma Hatun Sittişah Hatun Gülbahar Hatun Ayşe Hafsa Sultan Hürrem Sultan Nurbanu Sultan Safiye Sultan Handan Sultan Halime Sultan Mahfiruz Hatice Sultan Kösem Sultan Turhan Hatice Sultan Saliha Dilaşub Sultan Hatice Muazzez Sultan Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan Saliha Sultan Şehsuvar Sultan Emine Mihrişah Kadınefendi Rabia Şermi Kadınefendi Mihrişah Sultan Nükhetsezâ Hanımefendi Nakşidil Sultan Bezmiâlem Sultan Pertevniyal Sultan Şevkefza Sultan Tirimüjgan Kadınefendi Gülcemal Kadınefendi Gülüstü Kadınefendi