Fatma Emetullah Sultan (; 1679,

Edirne Edirne (; ), historically known as Orestias, Adrianople, is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the Edirne Province, province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second c ...

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- 13 December 1700, Constantinople) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of

Mehmed IV Mehmed IV (; ; 2 January 1642 – 6 January 1693), nicknamed as Mehmed the Hunter (), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the age of six after his father was overthrown in a coup. Mehmed went on to b ...

and his Haseki Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan. She was the sister of Sultans

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and

Ahmed III Ahmed III (, ''Aḥmed-i sālis''; was sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687). His mother was Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at Hacıoğlu Pazarcık, ...

Early life

She was born between in 1679 circa at

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or Topkapi Palace, to

and his favorite and Haseki Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan. 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.

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).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.

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 Hatice Turhan Sultan (, "''merciful"'' or "''noble''"; 1627 – 4 August 1683) was the first Haseki sultan of the Ottoman sultan Ibrahim (), and Valide sultan as the mother of Mehmed IV () as well as the Official Regent of the Ottoman Empi ...

Mosque, her paternal grandmother, next to her father.

References

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