Gevherhan Hatun ( ota, کوھرخان خاتون "''Gem of the Khan''") was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of

Mehmed the Conqueror Mehmed II ( ota, محمد ثانى, translit=Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; tr, II. Mehmed, ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror ( ota, ابو الفتح, Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit=the Father of Conquest, links=no; tr, Fâtih Su ...

(reign 1444–46 and 1451–81) and Gülbahar Hatun. She was the sister of Sultan

Bayezid II Bayezid II ( ota, بايزيد ثانى, Bāyezīd-i s̱ānī, 3 December 1447 – 26 May 1512, Turkish: ''II. Bayezid'') was the eldest son and successor of Mehmed II, ruling as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, Ba ...

(reign 1481–1512).

Early life

Gevherhan Hatun was the daughter of Sultan

Mehmed II Mehmed II ( ota, محمد ثانى, translit=Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; tr, II. Mehmed, ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror ( ota, ابو الفتح, Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit=the Father of Conquest, links=no; tr, Fâtih Su ...

known as "The Conqueror", and his concubine Gülbahar Hatun. She was the full sister of Sultan

Marriage

In 1474, Gevherhan married

Ughurlu Muhammad Ughurlu Muhammad Beg or Ughurlu Mehmed ( az, Uğurlu Məhəmməd bəy; fa, اغورلو محم بیگ; tr, Uğurlu Mehmed Bey; d. 1477) was a prince of the Aq Qoyunlu The Aq Qoyunlu ( az, Ağqoyunlular , ) was a culturally Persianate,Kaushik ...

, a son of

Aq Qoyunlu The Aq Qoyunlu ( az, Ağqoyunlular , ) was a culturally Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two tribal confederations: Akkoyunlu (W ...

ruler, Uzun Hassan. Ughurlu Muhammad had rebelled against his father and sought refuge by the Ottomans. Her father welcomed him and got him married to Gevherhan. Gevherhan's marriage to Ughurlu Muhammad was the only exception, which actually proved the rule. Ughurlu Muhammad being an exile from his own land and refugee at the Ottoman court, the Aq Qoyunlu prince might be considered a kind of adjunct member of the Ottoman royal household. Mehmed installed his new son-in-law in the frontier province of

Sivas Sivas (Latin and Greek: ''Sebastia'', ''Sebastea'', Σεβάστεια, Σεβαστή, ) is a city in central Turkey and the seat of Sivas Province. The city, which lies at an elevation of in the broad valley of the Kızılırmak river, is ...

and promised to supply him with arms and men, with which he would assert his claim to his patrimony at the proper moment. Ughurlu Muhammad was killed in the rebellion he attempted against his father in 1477. Of this marriage, Göde Ahmed was born. Because of his father's death, Mehmed had his grandson brought to Istanbul. Ahmed married his uncle Sultan

's daughter

Aynışah Sultan ota, خدیجہ عینی شاہ , house = Ottoman (by birth)Aq Qoyunlu (by marriage) , father = Bayezid II , mother = Şirin Hatun , birth_date = 1463 , birth_place = Amasya, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey) , death ...

in 1489. After that date, there is no news of Gevherhan, although, according to some sources, she remarried to Sinan Pasha, an important statesman under Bayezid II who is said to be married to the sultan's sister. It is possible that he was Gevherhan's second husband or that he was married to one of Bayezid's half-sisters (Bayezid doesn't appear to have any other full sisters) and the source doesn't mention the difference between full sister and half-sister.

Death

When she died around 1514, she was buried beside her mother in her mausoleum located in Fatih Mosque, Istanbul.

In popular culture

In the 2013 Turkish series ''

Fatih Fatih () is a district of and a municipality (''belediye'') in Istanbul, Turkey, and home to almost all of the provincial authorities (including the governor's office, police headquarters, metropolitan municipality and tax office) but not the co ...

'', Gevherhan Hatun is played by Turkish actress Hande Soral.

Ancestry

References

Sources

* * {{Daughters of the Ottoman Sultans Year of birth missing Year of death missing 15th-century Ottoman princesses