Gülçiçek Hatun

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Gülçiçek, the title is Hatun, and there is no family name.
Gülçiçek Hatun
Valide Hatun of the Ottoman Sultanate
Tenure16 June 1389 – c. 1400
PredecessorNilüfer Hatun
SuccessorDevlet Hatun
BornMaria
c. 1335
Bithynia, Ottoman Empire
(now Northern Anatolia, Anatolia, Turkey)
Diedc. 1400(1400-00-00) (aged 64–65)
Bursa, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Bursa
Consort ofMurad I
IssueBayezid I
Yahşi Bey
ReligionChristianity (birth)
Sunni Islam (conversion)

Gülçiçek Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: گلچیچک خاتون; "rose blossom", c. 1335 - c. 1400) was a Greek woman from Bithynia[1] who became a concubine of Ottoman Sultan Murad I and Valide Hatun to their son Bayezid I.[2]

The husband of Gülçiçek Hatun, Ottoman Sultan Murad I.
The son of Gülçiçek Hatun, Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I.

Biography

According to a tradition, Gülçiçek was a concubine of Aclan Bey, one of the Princes of the Anatolian Muslim Principality of Karasids. She was captured when Orhan conquered the principality (c. 1344) and placed in the Sultan's harem. Around 1359, when Orhan's son Murad had reached adulthood, she became his concubine.[3]

She gave birth to Murad two sons, Bayezid I and Yahşi Bey. She appointed her son Yahşi as trustee for an endowment deed she made for a Dervish Monastery. In her lifetime she established a religious and charitable foundation which demonstrated her Muslim piety publicly. With its revenues she built a mosque, the first Ottoman concubine to built one, and a tomb in Bursa where she was buried when she died, around 1400.[4][5]

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).

References

  1. ^ Lowry, Heath W. (2012-02-01). The Nature of the Early Ottoman State. SUNY Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-7914-8726-6.
  2. ^ "Sultan Yıldırım Beyezid Han". Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Archived from the original on August 13, 2014. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
  3. ^ Leslie P. Peirce (1993). "Wives and Concubines: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries". The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-195-08677-5.
  4. ^ The Nature of the Early Ottoman State, Heath W. Lowry, State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), p. 153
  5. ^ History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Stanford Jay Shaw, Cambridge University Press, p. 28
Ottoman royalty
Preceded by Valide Hatun
1389 - 1400 		Succeeded by