Emetullah Sultan ( ota, امت الله سلطان; "''servant of Allah''"; 22 June 1701 – 19 April 1727), called also Ümmetullah Sultan or Heybetullah Sultan, was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan

Mustafa II Mustafa II (; ota, مصطفى ثانى ''Muṣṭafā-yi sānī''; 6 February 1664 – 29 December 1703) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1695 to 1703. Early life He was born at Edirne Palace on 6 February 1664. He was the son of Sult ...

and Şehsuvar Kadin, the halfsister of

Mahmud I Mahmud I ( ota, محمود اول, tr, I. Mahmud, 2 August 1696 13 December 1754), known as Mahmud the Hunchback, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754. He took over the throne after the Patrona Halil rebellion and he kept goo ...

and the fullsister of Osman III.

Life

Emetullah Sultan was born the 22 June 1701 in the Edirne Palace. Her father was the Ottoman Sultan

, her mother one of his consorts, Şehsuvar Kadin. She had an older full brother, the future Osman III. Her name was given her in honor of her paternal grandmother, Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan. After her father's deposition in 1703 when she was two years old, she settled in the Old Palace in Istanbul. In 1720, her uncle Sultan

Ahmed III Ahmed III ( ota, احمد ثالث, ''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 H ...

arranged her marriage to Osman Pasha. Known by at least four different nicknames—Silâhdâr, Çerkes, Küçük, Sinek—Osman Pasha had risen from serving as a sword-bearer to her father, and had been previously married to her cousin Rukiye Sultan, who dead recently, a daughter of Fatma Emetullah Sultan, who in turn was a daughter of Sultan Mehmed IV and so a sister of her father. The marriage took place on 13 September 1720 in the Old Palace. The two together had a daughter, Hibetullah Hanımsultan. Emetullah was widowed at Osman Pasha's death in 1724.

Death

Emetullah Sultan died on 19 April 1727, and was buried in the mausoleum of New Mosque, Istanbul.

Issue

By her marriage, Emetullah Sultan had a daughter: * Hibetullah Hanımsultan (1721 - 1744). She married Hacı Ali Pasha and had issue. There are her descendants still alive in XXI century.

Ancestry

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