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List of unrecognized heirs of the Ottoman dynasty


Subsequent Ottoman princes from different centuries, fled their brothers or whose identity remained uncertain.

Şehzade Orhan, (b.1412- d.29 May 1453), was sent as a hostage to Constantinople together with his sister Fatma. Whether in Constantinople by Constantine XI. supervised and funded by Mehmed II, Prince Orhan, who described himself as a contender for the throne of the sultan Bayezid I, was actually a grandson, and thus belonged to the generation of Mehmed II uncle, is unclear. He committed suicide after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, suicide or was taken on the run and executed on behalf of Mehmed II. Orhan's father was (Şehzade) Kasım Çelebi, (b.1397-d.1417).

Şehzade Orhan Çelebi having had issue, one son and Great get:

The fact that in Europe, but not in Ottoman sources testified and described alleged heir apparent Bayezid Osman (also Calixtus Ottomanus and Turchetto), who was educated as a child in Constantinople, and as a teenager in Italy, also a son of Murad II, and thus a half brother of Mehmed II, can not be proved. Bayezid Osman was maintained by popes, kings and emperors for decades as possible after a hoped-for victory over Sultan Mehmed II and promoted by Mehmed's death, however, neglected. His seal bore the name "Bajsit Ottman Tvrcorum Emperor" and a crescent moon with four stars. He died unnoticed in 1496.

Cem Sultan, (December 22, 1459 – February 25, 1495) was a pretender to the Ottoman throne in the 15th century. He was a son of Mehmed II the Conqueror and younger brother of Sultan Bayezid II. He was banished to Europe, first under the protection of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John on the island of Rhodes and ultimately that of the Pope himself.

Sultan Yahya (1585–1649) was the fourth son of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III. His mother was a princess Elena from the Byzantine Comnenus or Komnenus dynasty of Trebizond, a branch of the Imperial Family of the same name from Constantinople. When his father, Murad, became Sultan, he followed the custom of executing all of his brothers (potential rival claimants to the Ottoman throne). Yahya's mother was concerned that this could also eventually happen to him after the death of his Father, so he was smuggled out, first to Greece, and then to present day Bulgaria. He supposedly was baptized at an Orthodox Christian monastery, where he lived for the next eight years of his life, and take the name Count Alexander of Montenegro. In 1629 he married the Albanian Princess Anna Katharina of Skenderbeg descendnat and had three children together:


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