Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)
| Ayşe Sultan عائشة سلطان |
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| Born | 1605/08 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) |
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| Died | 1656/57 (aged 47–52) Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
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| Burial | Ahmed I Mausoleum, Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Sultan Ahmed Square, Istanbul | ||||
| Spouse | Damad Gümülcineli Nasuh Pasha (1612–1614) Damad Karakaş Mehmed Pasha (c.1620–1621) Damad Hafız Ahmed Pasha (c. 1626–1632) Damad Murtaza Pasha (1635–1636) Damad Ahmed Pasha (1639–1644) Damad Voynuk Ahmed Pasha (1645–1649) Damad Ibşir Mustafa Pasha (1655) |
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| Dynasty | Ottoman | ||||
| Father | Ahmed I | ||||
| Mother | Kösem Sultan | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
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| Turkish: Ayşe Sultan binti Ahmed Han |
Ayşe Sultan (1605/08 – 1656/57; Ottoman Turkish :عائشة سلطان) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed I (reign 1603–17) and Kösem Sultan, half-sister of Sultan Osman II (reign 1618–22) and sister of Sultan Murad IV (reign 1623–40) and Sultan Ibrahim (reign 1640–48) of the Ottoman Empire. Ayşe is known for her many politically motivated marriages.
Born in Constantinople, she was one of Ahmed's daughters by his favourite consort Kösem Sultan. Her birth date is variously estimated as 1605, 1606 or 1608.
The Ottoman princesses were normally married away, to influential Ottoman officials, by their mothers or paternal grandmothers, who had the right to arrange their marriages and arranged matches which could be of political use. They had privileges in marriage which separated them from other Muslim females: such as the right to be the only wife of their spouse, to refuse to consummate their marriage until they were ready and to contract a divorce when they pleased. Due to many of them marrying as children and being widowed and divorced several times, often for political reasons, remarriages were very common. Ayşe and her sister, Fatma Sultan are extreme examples of this: they were married at least seven and six times, and entered into their last engagement at the ages of about 50 and 61, respectively.
Of the total number of Ayşe's husbands, two were executed, one was assassinated and two fell in battle.
Ayşe Sultan was firstly married in 1612 to Gümülcineli Nasuh Pasha (d. 1614), Grand Vizier 1611–14. The celebrations of their engagement and wedding ceremonies, as well as those of her sister Gevherhan Sultan and Öküz Kara Mehmed Pasha, which took place in succession over a number of months of 1611 and 1612, were sponsored by Ahmed, and were so elaborate and extravagant that they were observed by the public as if they were festivals marking the end of wars the Sultan had promised. In July of the latter year, the little princess was taken in great pomp to her husband's palace, where he would eventually be executed in her presence, much to her distress. This palace, located opposite the quay known as Salacak in Üsküdar, she retained as her own property.
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