Dilfirib Kadın ( ota, دل فریب قادین, "''deceitful heart''"; 1890 – 1952) was the fifth and last consort of Sultan
Mehmed V
Mehmed V Reşâd ( ota, محمد خامس, Meḥmed-i ḫâmis; tr, V. Mehmed or ; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) reigned as the 35th and penultimate Ottoman Sultan (). He was the son of Sultan Abdulmejid I. He succeeded his half-brother ...
of the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
.
Life
Dilfirib Kadın was born in 1890 at Istanbul. She was Circassian. She married Mehmed in 1907 as his fifth consort. She remained childless. On 27 April 1909, after Mehmed's accession to the throne, she was given the title of "Senior Ikbal". She was later elevated the title of "Fourth Kadın" when
Dürriaden Kadın died on October 1909.
Safiye Ünüvar, a teacher at the
Palace School, who met her in 1915, described her being young and well educated. Safiye Ünüvar wrote that she was friends with her and that their friendship continued until her death.
On 30 May 1918, Dilfirib met with the Empress
Zita of Bourbon-Parma
Zita of Bourbon-Parma (''Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese''; 9 May 1892 – 14 March 1989) was the wife of Charles, the last monarch of Austria-Hungary. As such, she was the last Empres ...
in the harem of
Yıldız Palace
Yıldız Palace ( tr, Yıldız Sarayı, ) is a vast complex of former imperial Ottoman pavilions and villas in Istanbul, Turkey, built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was used as a residence by the sultan and his court in the late 19th ...
, when the latter visited Istanbul with her husband Emperor
Charles I of Austria
Charles I or Karl I (german: Karl Franz Josef Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Maria, hu, Károly Ferenc József Lajos Hubert György Ottó Mária; 17 August 18871 April 1922) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary (as Charles IV, ), King of Croatia, ...
. With her beauty, she won the Empress's appreciation.
Dilfirib and
Nazperver Kadın
Rukiye Nazperver Kadın ( ota, نازپرور قادین; 12 June 1870 – 9 March 1929; meaning "''charm''" and "''gracefull one''") was the fourth consort of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire.
Life
Her real name Rukiye Hanim, she was bo ...
, Mehmed's fourth wife were with him, when he died on 3 July 1918.
After the sultan's death, she remained in the Yıldız Palace. When the imperial family went into exile in 1924, she moved in her villa located in Erenköy and she remarried with a doctor, with she had a son. She died in 1952 because cancer.
See also
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Kadın (title)
Kadın ( ota, قادین) was the title given to the imperial consort of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire towards the beginning of the seventeenth century. The title came into official usage at the end of the century, and remained in usage until th ...
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Ottoman Imperial Harem
The Imperial Harem ( ota, حرم همايون, ) of the Ottoman Empire was the Ottoman sultan's harem – composed of the wives, servants (both female slaves and eunuchs), female relatives and the sultan's concubines – occupying a secluded po ...
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List of consorts of the Ottoman sultans
This is a list of Consorts of the Ottoman sultans, the wives and concubines of the monarchs of the Ottoman Empire who ruled over the transcontinental empire from its inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 1922.
Honorific and titles
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1890s births
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20th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans
Royalty from Istanbul