Ferahşad Hatun#Issue
{{short description|Concubine of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II}}
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| death_date = 1530
| death_place = Bursa, Ottoman Empire
(present day Bursa, Turkey)
| burial_place = Muradiye Complex, Bursa
| religion = Sunni Islam
| spouse = Bayezid II
| issue = Şehzade Mehmed
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Ferahşad HatunAlso written as "Ferruşad Hatun". ({{langx|ota|فرخشاد خاتون}} "Happiness", also known as Muhtereme HatunAlso written as "Muhterem Hatun". ({{langx|ota|محترمہ خاتون}}, "Honorable, respectful"),{{cite book|author=Raif Kaplanoğlu|title=Bursalı şair, yazar, ve ünlüler ansiklopedisi|publisher=Avrasya Etnografya Vakfı|year=1998|pages=212}} was a concubine of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire.
Life
Ferahşad entered in Bayezid's harem in 1484, and gave birth to Şehzade Mehmed, the last Bayezid's son, on 1486. Contemporary historian Kemalpaşazade commented on his birth, by stating that he was a "substitute" (bedel) for his recently deceased half-brother, Şehzade Abdüllah (dead in 1483, son of Şirin Hatun).{{cite book|first=Nabil Sirri|last=Al-Tikriti|title=Şehzade Korkud (ca. 1468-1513) and the Articulation of Early 16th Century Ottoman Religious Identity – Volume 1 and 2|year=2004|pages=59 n. 40, 321, 322}}
According to Turkish tradition, all princes were expected to work as provincial governors as a part of their training. Mehmed was sent to Kefe in 1490, and Ferahşad accompanied him.{{cite book|author=M. Çağatay Uluçay|title=Padişahların kadınları ve kızları|publisher=Türk Tarih Kurumu|year=1985|pages=46}}{{cite book|author=Necdet Sakaoğlu|title=Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler
|publisher=Oğlak Yayıncılık|year=2008|pages=191|isbn=978-9-753-29623-6}}
Following Mehmed's death in December 1504, she retired to Bursa. In retirement she made endowments in Silivri,{{cite book|first=M. Tayyib|last=Gökbilgin|title=XV-XVI. asırlarda Edirne ve Paşa Livası: vakıflar, mülkler, mukataalar|publisher=Üçler Basımevi|year=1952|pages=376}} and Istanbul.{{cite book|first=Ömer Lûtfi|last=Barkan|title=İstanbul vakıfları tahrîr defteri: 953 (1546) târîhli|publisher=Baha Matbaası|year=1970|pages=146–7}}{{cite book|first=Mehmet|last=Canatar|title=İstanbul Vakıfları Tahrir Defteri: 1009 (1600) Tarihli|publisher=İstanbul Fetih Cemiyeti Yayınları|year=2004|pages=220–21}} She was buried in Muradiye Complex, Bursa.
Issue
Together with Bayezid, Ferahşad had one son:
- Şehzade Mehmed (1484 - December 1504, buried in Muradiye Complex). In 1504 he married a princess of the Giray khanate of Crimea, Ayşe Hatun (who would later be consort of his half-brother Selim I) and had three children by an unknown mother, Fatma Sultan (1500 - 1566), Şehzade Alemşah and Şehzade Mehmed (1505, posthumously - 1513, killed by Selim I).
References
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External links
- [http://www.onur.bursa.com/wiki/Muhtereme_Hatun Biography of Muhtereme Hatun in Turkish] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916124045/http://www.onur.bursa.com/wiki/Muhtereme_Hatun |date=2016-09-16 }}
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