Fatma Emetullah Sultan (daughter of Mehmed IV)

Fatma Emetullah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: امت الله فاطمه سلطان, lit. '"One who abstains" and "servant of Allah"'; c. 1679, Edirne or Constantinople - 13 December 1700, Constantinople) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Mehmed IV and his Haseki Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan. She was the sister of Sultans Mustafa II and Ahmed III.

Fatma Emetullah Sultan
Born	c. 1679 Edirne Palace, Edirne, Ottoman Empire or Topkapi Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died	17 December 1700(1700-12-17) (aged 20–21) Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Mausoleum of Turhan Sultan, New Mosque, Eminönü, Constantinople
Spouse	Çerkes Ibrahim Pasha ​ ​ (m. 1695; died 1697)​ Topal Yusuf Pasha ​ ​ (m. 1697; died 1700)​
Issue	First marriage Rukiye Hanimsultan Second marriage Safiye Hanimsultan
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Mehmed IV
Mother	Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan
Religion	Sunni Islam

Early life

She was born between in 1679 circa at Edirne Palace or Topkapi Palace, to Mehmed IV and his favorite and Haseki Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan.^[1] Her second name was given in honor of her mother. She was the sixth and last child of her parents and the fourth daughters.

Marriages

Her brother, Mustafa II, married her to Tırnakçı Çerkes Ibrahim Pasha in September 1695; whom he first granted the rank of deputy of Silistre, then later executed, in September 1697. They had a daughter.

She subsequently married Topal Yusuf Paşa in 1697. They had a daughter.^[2][3]

Issue

By her first marriage, Fatma had a daughter:

• Rukiye Hanimsultan (1696 - 1720), who married Sirke Osman Pasha, who after her death married her cousin Emetullah Sultan on August 1720.

By her second marriage, Fatma had a second daughter:

• Safiye Hanimsultan (1697/1700 - 1711).^[4]

Death

Fatma Sultan died on December 13, 1700, from plague, tuberculosis, or according to other sources, postpartum complications. During the funeral, she was accompanied by a procession of statesmen together with her husband. She was buried in the Turhan Sultan Mosque, her paternal grandmother, next to her father.

References

1. Majer, Hans Georg (1992). The Journal of Ottoman Studies XII: The Harem of Mustafa II (1695-1703). p. 441.
2. Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara, Ötüken. p. 110.
3. Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha (2001). Nusretnâme: Tahlil ve Metin (1106-1133/1695-1721). pp. 135, 458–9, 841.
4. According to Necdet Sakaoğlu, also Safiye was daughter of her first marriage. If this were true, and it true also that Fatma had died in childbirth, it would mean that Fatma had an unknown third child with her second husband, stillborn or stillborn shortly after birth.