Üveys Pasha
Üveys Pasha (1498–1548) was an Ottoman Prince, son of Selim I (also known as the Grim or the Inflexible).
Background
Üveys' mother was a harem girl whose name is not known., but because of her undisciplined manners she was expelled from the harem. In Ottoman tradition, such girls were matched to a bey or to a well-to-do man.
Professional life
Selim looked after his son and Üveys soon became a high-ranking bureaucrat of the empire. However, when Selim died in 1520, Üveys laid no claim to throne because of the Ottoman tradition His Half brother Suleiman I I I ascended on Thorne.Suleiman I (later nicknamed the Magnificent) ascended to throne and he was careful to keep Üveys at the far reaches of his vast empire as a Sanjak Bey. In 1535, soon after the capture of Baghdad (now capital of Iraq), Shazada Üveys was appointed as the beylerbey of Baghdad. In 1545, he was assigned to capture Ta'izz (a city in Yemen), in which he was successful.
Death
In 1548, a marine soldier named Pehlivan Hasan started a rebellion in Yemen. While trying to suppress the rebellion, Üveys was killed by the rebels. (The rebellion was later suppressed by Özdemir Pasha.)[1] According to Ottoman historian Ali Efendi.
References
- ↑ Prof. Yaşar Yüce-Prof. Ali Sevim: Türkiye tarihi Cilt II, AKDTYKTTK Yayınları, İstanbul, 1991 p 295