Hanzade Sultan (; - 21 September 1650) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan

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 ...

(r. 1603–1617) and

Kösem Sultan Kösem Sultan (; 1589 – 2 September 1651), also known as Mahpeyker Sultan (;), was the Haseki sultan, Haseki Sultan as the chief consort and legal wife of the List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I, Valide sultan, Vali ...

. She was a half sister of

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(r. 1618–1622) and a full sister

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 ...

(r. 1623–1640) and

Ibrahim I Ibrahim I may refer to: *Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab (756–812), first emir of the Aghlabids in Ifriqiya * Ibrahim I ibn Marzuban I ( 957–979), King of Dvin and Azerbaijan *İbrahim I of Karaman ( 1318–1343), bey of Karaman Beylik *Ibrahim I of Sh ...

(r. 1640–1648), and the paternal aunt of

Mehmed IV Mehmed IV (; ; 2 January 1642 – 6 January 1693), nicknamed as Mehmed the Hunter (), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the age of six after his father was overthrown in a coup. Mehmed went on to b ...

(r. 1648–1687),

Suleiman II Suleiman II may refer to: * Suleiman II of the Ottoman Empire * Suleiman II of Persia * Suleiman II of Rûm * Suleiman II of Cordoba {{hndis ...

(r. 1687–1691) and

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(r. 1691–1695).

Biography

Born in Constantinople in 1609, Hanzade Sultan was the daughter of sultan

and his consort

. After her father's death in 1617, she settled in the Old Palace. Hanzade married Ladliki Bayram Pasha, who was then the agha of the Janissaries in March 1623 in the Old Palace. Her elaborate bridal procession was escorted among the cheering crowds in the streets of Istanbul by the vezirs of the sultan. They had a daughter. After Bayram's death in 1638, she married vezir Nakkaş Mustafa Pasha in October 1639 in the Bayram Pasha Palace. By him she had a son, Sultanzade Abdülbaki Bey. Her daily stipend during this time was 430 aspers. In 1643, early in the reign of her brother Sultan Ibrahim, Hanzade is recorded, like her sisters Ayşe Sultan and Fatma Sultan, as receiving the maximum daily stipend for imperial princesses of the time, namely 400 aspers. Later, in around 1647, she fell, for reasons unknown, in disgrace and was submitted, alongside her sisters Ayşe and Fatma and niece

Kaya Sultan Ismihan Kaya Sultan (, "''purity of the Khan''" or ''"highness of the Khan''" and "''chastity''"; 1630/1633 – 28 February 1658) was an Ottoman princess. She was the daughter of Ottoman sultan Murad IV. The famed Ottoman traveler Evliya Çele ...

, to the indignity of subordination of his concubines. He took away their lands and wealth, and made them serve his newest favourite, Hümaşah, by standing at attention like servants while she ate and by fetching and holding the soap, basin and the pitcher of water with which she washed her hands. Because of what he believed was failure to serve her properly, the Sultan then banished them to

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. Hanzade Sultan died on 21 September 1650, and was buried in the mausoleum of her brother Sultan Ibrahim in

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