Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin Efendi (; 23 May 1849 – 4 November 1876) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Sultan

Abdulmejid I ʻAbd al-Majīd (ALA-LC romanization of , ), also spelled as Abd ul Majid, Abd ul-Majid, Abd ol Majid, Abd ol-Majid, and Abdolmajid, is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Maj ...

and one of his consorts,

Nükhetsezâ Hanım Hatice Nükhetseza Hanım (; "''rich parfume''"; 2 January 1827 – 15 May 1850) was a consort of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire. Life Nükhetsezâ Hanım was born on 2 January 1827. She was the daughter of the Abkhazian noble ...

Early life

Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin was born on 23 May 1849 in the Old Beylerbeyi Palace. His father was Sultan

, son of Sultan

Mahmud II Mahmud II (, ; 20 July 1785 – 1 July 1839) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. Often described as the "Peter the Great of Turkey", Mahmud instituted extensive administrative, military, and fiscal reforms ...

and

Bezmiâlem Sultan Bezmiâlem Sultan (also spelled Bazimialam, ; 1807 – 2 May 1853), was a consort of Sultan Mahmud II, and Valide sultan to their son, Sultan Abdülmecid I of the Ottoman Empire. Early years Bezmiâlem Kadın, called also Bazimialam, was born in ...

and his mother was

. He had an older full brother, Şehzade Ahmed, and two older full sisters, Aliye Sultan and Nazime Sultan, all of whom died as newborn. After his mother's death in 1850, when he was one year old, he was adopted by another of his father's consorts, Neverser Hanim, who had no children of her own. He was circumcised on 9 April 1857 in the Dolmabahçe Palace, together with his brothers Şehzade Mehmed Reşad (future

Mehmed V Mehmed V Reşâd (; or ; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) was the penultimate List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a Constitutional monarchy, constitutional monarch. He had ...

Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Efendi (; 16 July 1848 - 25 April 1905) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman prince, son of Sultan Abdulmejid I and his consort Verdicenan Kadın. Early life Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin was born on 16 July 1848 in the Çırağa ...

and Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin.

Personal life

Burhaneddin married three times and had one son. One of his wives was Mestinaz Hanım. She was born on 20 September 1851 in Tbilisi, Georgia. They married on 4 May 1872 in the Dolmabahçe Palace. In 1874, she gave birth to

Şehzade Ibrahim Tevfik Şehzade Ibrahim Tevfik Efendi (; 6November 1874 – 31 December 1931) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin, and grandson of Sultan Abdulmejid I. Early life Şehzade Ibrahim Tevfik was born on 6 November 1874 in the Dolm ...

. Two years later she gave birth a daughter. She died on 20 April 1909 in the Dolmabahçe Palace, and was buried in Yavuz Selim Mosque. Another wife was Şadruh Hanım. They married in 1873. She died in 1930. Another wife was Aşkıdilber Hanım. In widowhood, Mestinaz, Şadruh and Aşkıdilber received a pension of 10,000 ''kuruş'', 2880 ''kuruş'', and 4000 ''kuruş'' respectively. In 1909, Şadruh's and Aşkıdilber's pension was raised to 10,000 ''kuruş'' each. He owned a villa in Üsküdar. The villa was built in 1860, and was located on a hill between the Tophanelioğlu-Kısıklı road the Bosphorus Bridge ring road.

Later life and death

Sultan

Abdul Hamid II Abdulhamid II or Abdul Hamid II (; ; 21 September 184210 February 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. He oversaw a Decline and modernizati ...

trusted Burhaneddin. During his reign, he had tightened the security ring around the

Çırağan Palace Çırağan Palace (), a former Ottoman palace, is now a five-star hotel in the Kempinski Hotels chain. It is located on the European shore of the Bosporus, between Beşiktaş and Ortaköy in Istanbul, Turkey. The Sultan Suite, billed at pe ...

, where

Murad V Murad V (; ; 21 September 1840 – 29 August 1904) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 30 May to 31 August 1876. The son of Abdulmejid I, he supported the conversion of the government to a constitutional monarchy. His uncle Abdulaziz ...

and his family were confined. Access to the palace was so severely curtailed that visitors were practically limited to the princes, such as Burhaneddin and Mehmed Reşad. Burhaneddin died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven on 4 November 1876, and was buried in the mausoleum of his father in Yavuz Selim Mosque, Istanbul. His brother, Abdul Hamid named a battleship and one of his sons after him. He also brought up his son in his care.

Issue

Ancestry

References

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