Gevheri Kadın

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Gevheri, the title is Kadın, and there is no family name.

Gevheri Kadın
Born	Emine Hanim 8 July 1856
Died	6 September 1884(1884-09-06) (aged 28) Feriye Palace, Ortaköy, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial	Imperial ladies mausoleum, New Mosque, Istanbul
Spouse	Abdulaziz ​ ​ (m. 1872; died 1876)​
Issue	Esma Sultan Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin
Names Turkish: Gevheri Kadın Ottoman Turkish: کوھری قادین
House	Ottoman (by marriage)
Father	Salih Bey
Mother	Şaziye Hanim
Religion	Sunni Islam

Gevheri Kadın (Ottoman Turkish: کوهری قادین, "gem"; 8 July 1856 – 6 September 1884), born Emine Hanim, was a consort of Sultan Abdulaziz of the Ottoman Empire.^[1]

Life

Gevheri Kadın was born on 8 July 1856. She was Abkhazian, daughter of Salih Bey and Şaziye Hanim, prince Tsanba Osman Bey's daughter, and her real name was Emine Hanim.^[2] She was sent to the palace as a child and educated to become a consort by Pertevniyal Sultan, Abdülaziz's mother.

She married Abdulaziz in 1872^[3] in the Dolmabahçe Palace, and was given the title of "Senior Ikbal".^[4] A year after the marriage, on 21 March 1873, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Esma Sultan.^[5][6] On 22 September 1874, she gave birth to her second child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin^[7][8] in the Çırağan Palace.^[9] Sometime later she was elevated to the title of "Fifth Kadın",^[10] and in 1875, to the title of "Fourth Kadın".

She had long curly auburn hair and blue eyes. She always wore white dresses with a red sash at the waist and a light blue veil hotoz on her head; her only jewelry were the rings Abdülaziz gave her on their wedding day. Gevheri was a very charitable women: she helped the poor however she could, paid for the education of young orphans and even supplied funds to repair several mosques and schools.^[11]

Abdulaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876, his nephew Murad V became the Sultan.^[12] He was transferred to Feriye Palace the next day.^[13] Gevheri, and other women Abdulaziz's entourage didn't wanted to leave the Dolmabahçe Palace. So they were grabbed by hand and were sent out to the Feriye Palace. In the process, they were searched from head to toe and everything of value was taken from them.^[14] On 4 June 1876,^[15] Abdulaziz died under mysterious circumstances.^[16]

Death

Gevheri and the other wives were released from captivity by Abdulhamid II in September 1876. She then lived with her children with Şehzade Yusuf Izzedin and later in the Ortaköy Palace.

Gevheri died on 6 September 1884 in the Feriye Palace, Ortaköy at the age of twenty-eight, and was buried in the mausoleum of the imperial ladies at the New Mosque Istanbul.^[2][17]

Issue

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
Esma Sultan	21 March 1873[18][19][20]	7 May 1899[19][20]	married once, and had issue, four sons and one daughter
Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin	22 September 1874[21][4]	19 October 1927	married twice, and had issue, three sons and one daughter

See also

• Kadın (title)
• Ottoman Imperial Harem
• List of consorts of the Ottoman sultans

References

1. Yıldırım, Tahsin (2006). Veliahd Yusuf İzzettin Efendi Öldürüldü mü? İntihar mı etti?. Çatı Yayıncılık. p. 34.
2. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 642.
3. Tunç, Muhammed Nuri (2013). Ceyb-i Hümâyûn Hazinesi ve Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Arşivi R.1288 (M.1872) Tarihli Ceyb ve Harc-ı Jâssa Defterlerinin Transkripsiyonu ve Değerlendirilmesi (PhD Thesis). Gaziantep University Institute of Social Sciences. p. 113.
4. Uluçay 2011, p. 233.
5. Uluçay 2011, p. 235.
6. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 645.
7. Bey, Mehmet Sürreya (1969). Osmanlı devletinde kim kimdi, Volume 1. Küğ Yayını. p. 269.
8. Bardakçı, Murat (2017). Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. Oxford University Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-9-774-16837-6.
9. Uçan, Lâle (2019a). Dolmabahçe Sarayı'nda Çocuk Olmak: Sultan Abdülaziz'in Şehzâdelerinin ve Sultanefendilerinin Çocukluk Yaşantılarından Kesitler. FSM İlmî Araştırmalar İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi. p. 233.
10. Karahüseyin, Güller; Saçaklı, Palin Aykut (2004). Dolmabahçe Sarayı Harem Dairelerinin Mekan Fonksiyonlart Açısından Değerlendirilmesi. TBMM Milli Saraylar Daire Başkanlığı Yayını Istanbul. pp. 86, 98.
11. Uluçay 2011, pp. 233–234.
12. Zürcher, Erik J. (October 15, 2004). Turkey: A Modern History, Revised Edition. I.B.Tauris. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-850-43399-6.
13. Shaw, Stanford J.; Shaw, Ezel Kural (1976). History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 2, Reform, Revolution, and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey 1808-1975, Volume 11. Cambridge University Press. pp. 164. ISBN 978-0-521-29166-8.
14. Brookes 2010, p. 40.
15. Davison, Roderic H. (December 8, 2015). Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1856-1876. Princeton University Press. p. 341. ISBN 978-1-400-87876-5.
16. Brookes 2010, p. 43.
17. Uluçay 2011, p. 234.
18. Uçan 2019, pp. 23–24.
19. Uluçay 2011, pp. 235–236.
20. Brookes 2010, p. 281.
21. Uçan 2019, p. 24.

Sources

• Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
• Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
• Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara: Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
• Uçan, Lâle (2019). Son Halife Abdülmecid Efendi'nin Hayatı - Şehzâlik, Veliahtlık ve Halifelik Yılları (PDF) (PhD Thesis). Istanbul University Institute of Social Sciences.