Kameriye Malhun Hatun (''"moon''" and "''wealth''"; also called Mal Hatun or Mala Hatun; died after 1326) was the first legal wife of

Osman I Osman I or Osman Ghazi (; or ''Osman Gazi''; died 1323/4) was the eponymous founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as a bey, beylik or emirate). While initially a small Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman principality during Osman's lifetime, h ...

, the leader of the Ottoman Turks and the founder of the dynasty that established and ruled the

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. She was the mother of Sultan

Orhan Orhan Ghazi (; , also spelled Orkhan; died 1362) was the second sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1323/4 to 1362. He was born in Söğüt, as the son of Osman I. In the early stages of his reign, Orhan focused his energies on conquering mos ...

Biography

According to some historians, she was the daughter of the Anatolian Turkish Bey, Ömer Bey. In the past there have been many speculations that she was the daughter of

Sheikh Edebali İmâdüddin Mustafa bin İbrâhim bin İnaç el-Kırşehrî (died in 1326), often known as Sheikh Edebali (), was a Turkish Muslim Sheikh of the Wafaiyya order (tariqa) and leader of the Ahi brotherhood, who helped shape and develop the polic ...

, as most of the historians during the Ottoman period accept that she was indeed his daughter, although her name has been a subject of conflict to this date, but now it is known that Edebali's daughter was Rabia Bala. Other sources say that she was the daughter of Ömer Abdülaziz Bey,

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. The 1324 endowment deed for a

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built by Sultan Orhan suggests that his mother was not, as popular historical tradition maintains, Edebali's daughter but rather Mal Hatun, the daughter of one "Umar Bey or Ömer Bey". The title "Bey", used by the princely dynasties of Anatolia, suggests that Mal Hatun's father was a person of some status and authority. One possibility is that he was the eponymous ruler of an "Amouri" (Umeri) Principality, which was located northeast of the emerging Ottoman State and disappeared in the late 13th or the early 14th century. The Amouri are described by the 13th century Byzantine historian

George Pachymeres George Pachymeres (; 1242 – 1310) was a Byzantine Greek historian, philosopher, music theorist and miscellaneous writer. Biography Pachymeres was born at Nicaea, in Bithynia, where his father had taken refuge after the capture of Constantinop ...

, who says that a son of Umar fought with Osman in one of his first raids against local Byzantine lords (the victory of Baphaion). The Ottomans, according to Pachymeres, went on to assume the role played by Amouri until their demise as the principal aggressor against the Byzantines in the northwest Anatolia. If Pachymeres's report is correct, the timing and the political context are appropriate for a marriage between Osman and Umar Bey's daughter.

Burial

Mal Hatun,who likely lived into the late 1320s, possibly dying after his accession in 1326,was laid to rest in the family mausoleum that eventually formed around Osman’s grave in Bursa and is probably buried in one of the unidentified sarcophagi.

In popular culture

* In the Turkish historical drama series '' Kuruluş Osman'', Malhun Hatun is portrayed by the Turkish actress

Yıldız Çağrı Atiksoy Yıldız Çağrı Atiksoy (born 1 April 1986) is a Turkish actress best known for her role as Malhun Hatun in the Turkish historical drama TV series '' Kuruluş: Osman''. Personal life She studied theatre for two years at the İzmir Ege Art Ce ...

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