Ayesha Begum
| Ayesha Begum عایشه بيگم | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Ayesha before 1490 Bakhchisaray, Giray dynasty |
| Died |
after 1512 Crimea |
| Burial place | Crimea |
| Religion | Islam |
| Spouse(s) | Şehzade Mehmed |
| Parent(s) | Meñli I Giray |
Ayesha Begum (عایشه بيگم, before 1490- after 1512[1]) was a Giray princess, the daughter of Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate.[2] She was the wife of Ottoman prince Şehzade Mehmed (d. 1476), the son of Sultan Bayezid II and Bayezid II's Ninth wife Ferahşad Hatun the daughter of Muhammad, Governor of Kafa.[1]
Biography
Ayesha Begum was the sister of Ayşe Hafsa Sultan and the aunt of Sultan Selim's only heir and future successor, Süleyman the Magnificent.
Although the wedlocks of the Girays and members other reigning Muslim dynasties unknown. In 1504 at Kefe the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II (1481-1512) solicited the hand of Ayesha, for his son Şehzade Mehmed, Sancak Bey of Kefe, son of Ferahşad Hatun, Sultan Selim I's brother, and became widow by his death in 1507. Soon after her first husband's death, in 1511, the Crimean princess entered the harem of her husband's brother, the future Sultan Selim I (1513–20), when he was the governor of Amasya, thus securing for him, in the person of her powerful father, a valuable ally in the prince's struggle for the throne.[3][4] Soon Sultan Selim succeeded the throne as Selim I in 1512, moved to Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, along with his family to ascend the throne leaving Ayesha in Amasya. After Selim's accession she went back to Crimea. The burial place of Ayesha Begum is located at Crimea.
See also
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
- 1 2 "Turkey: The Imperial House of Osman - 4". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on May 2, 2006. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ↑ Family tree of Giray dynasty
- ↑ Gillian Long; Uradyn Erden Bulag; Michael Gervers (2005). History and society in central and inner Asia: papers presented at the Central and Inner Asia Seminar, University of Toronto, 16-17 April 2004. Asian Institute, University of Toronto. ISBN 978-0-772-77601-3.
- ↑ Elena Vladimirovna Boĭkova, R. B. Rybakov, Kinship in the Altaic World: Proceedings of the 48th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Moscow 10–15 July 2005, pg.341