Fahriye Sultan (

Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish (, ; ) was the standardized register of the Turkish language in the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extensively, in all aspects, from Arabic and Persian. It was written in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. ...

: فخری سلطان, "''honorary''"; also Fahri Sultan; died 1656), was an Ottoman princess, daughter of

Sultan Sultan (; ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be use ...

Murad III Murad III (; ; 4 July 1546 – 16 January 1595) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. His rule saw battles with the Habsburg monarchy, Habsburgs and exhausting wars with the Safavid Iran, Safavids. The long-inde ...

(reign 1574–1595) of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

, and maybe of his favorite Safiye Sultan.

Biography

Her mother possibly was Safiye Sultan if she born after Safiye's return from exile in the Old Palace in 1584. In 1595 her father died and her brother,

Mehmed III Mehmed III (, ''Meḥmed-i sālis''; ; 26 May 1566 – 22 December 1603) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death in 1603. Mehmed was known for ordering the execution of his brothers and leading the army in the Long Turkish ...

ascended to the throne. In 1603 her brother died and her thirteen-year-old nephew,

Ahmed I Ahmed I ( '; ; 18 April 1590 – 22 November 1617) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the first breach in the Ottoman tradition of royal fratricide; henceforth, Ottoman rulers would no ...

, ascended to the throne. Ahmed married Fahriye to Çuhadar Ahmed Pasha in 1604. The marriage remained childless and the pasha died in 1618. When

Osman II Osman II ( ''‘Osmān-i sānī''; ; 3 November 1604 – 20 May 1622), also known as Osman the Young (), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 26 February 1618 until his regicide on 20 May 1622. Early life Osman II was born at Topkapı Pa ...

deposed

Mustafa I Mustafa I (; ‎; ; 1600/1602 – 20 January 1639) was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 22 November 1617 to 26 February 1618, and from 20 May 1622 to 10 September 1623. He was the son of sultan Mehmed III and Halime Sultan. Earl ...

, Fahriye lived in the palace and received the same salary as other members of the dynasty. Her second husband was Sofu Bayram Pasha. She married in 1618 and was widowed at his death in 1632. Her third husband was Deli Dilaver Pasha. During the reign of sultan

Murad IV Murad IV (, ''Murād-ı Rābiʿ''; , 27 July 1612 – 8 February 1640) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods. Murad I ...

, her stipend was 430 aspers a day. She is known to receive gifts from the Ragusans from the 1640s all up until the 1650s. However, once she was deliberately overlooked for reasons unknown, likely driven by a reduction in public spending. After waiting a year, she instructed her ''kethüda'' to inquire with the ambassadors about why their predecessors didn't provide her entitled privileges. When the ambassadors showed no inclination to rectify the situation, she sought the intervention of the grand vizier, sending a copy to Caboga, the Ragusan ambassador. The outcome remains uncertain. She died in 1656.

In popular culture

In the 2015 TV series '' Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem'', Fahriye Sultan is portrayed by Turkish actress Gülcan Arslan.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fahriye Sultan 16th-century Ottoman princesses Year of birth missing 1656 deaths Daughters of Murad III 17th-century Ottoman princesses