Şayeste Hanımefendi
| Şayeste Hanım شائستہ خانم |
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| Imperial consort of the Ottoman Empire | |||||||||
| Tenure | 1852 – 25 June 1861 | ||||||||
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c. 1838 Sukhumi, Abkhazia |
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| Died | 11 February 1912 (aged 73–74) Çengelköy Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
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| Burial | Yahya Efendi cemetery | ||||||||
| Spouse | Abdülmecid I | ||||||||
| Issue | Şehzade Abdullah Naile Sultan |
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| House | House of Inalipa (by birth) House of Osman (by marriage) |
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| Father | Tataş Bey Inalipa | ||||||||
| Mother | Sarey Hanım | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||
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Turkish: Şayeste Hanım English: Shaista Khanum Ottoman Turkish: شائستہ خانم |
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| Merhume ve Mağfurun-leha Cennetmekan Firdevs-i aşiyan Devletpü Ismetlü Üçüncü Ikbal Şayeste Hanım Efendi Hazretleri |
Şayeste Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: شائستہ خانم, c. 1836 – 11 February 1912) was the consort of Sultan Abdülmecid I of the Ottoman Empire.
Şayeste Hanım was born in 1838 to Prince Tataş Bey Inalipa, an Abkhazian and his wife Sarey Hanım. Losing her parents at a very young age, her uncle took her and her sister Fatma Mihrifelek Hanım to Istanbul, and was entrusted in the care of a countrywoman in the palace. She was renamed and was given thoroughly Turkish and Muslim education in the harem department of the Topkapı Palace. Şayeste grew into a young lady in the Topkapı Palace, and when she reached her fourteenth year she was noticed by Sultan Abdülmecid I and they married in 1852.
A year after the marriage she gave birth to, Şehzade Abdullah who died at the age of nine. In 1856 she gave birth to, Naile Sultan. After the birth of their children, Şayeste Hanım increased her spending and continued to spend even after the death of her husband, Abdülmecid in 1861. After the death of Gülüstü Hanım she was given the motherless infant Şehzade Mehmed Vahideddin to raise. She also brought her relatives to the court. She married her daughter, Princess Naile Sultan to one of her relatives, Çerkeş Mehmed Paşa in 1880 in the Dolmabahçe Palace.
Among the longest living consorts of Abdülmecid I, she died on 11 February 1912 in the Çengelköy Palace, Istanbul and was buried in the royal mausoleum of Yahya Efendi in Istanbul.
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