Ayşe Hatun (consort of Selim I) explained

Ayşe Hatun
Birth Date:	1476
Birth Place:	Bağçasaray, Crimean Khanate
Death Place:	Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Religion:	Sunni Islam
Spouse:
Spouse-Type:	Consort
Father:	Meñli I Giray of Crimean Khanate

Ayşe Hatun (1476–1539) was a Crimean princess, daughter of Meñli I Giray, and a consort of Ottoman Sultan Selim I.

Biography

Ayşe Hatun was married firstly in 1504 to Selim's brother Şehzade Mehmed, Sancak Bey of Kefe, son of Ferahşad Hatun and became widow by his death in same year.

Her marriage was one of only two examples of marriages between the Ottoman dynasty and the Giray dynasty; the other one was those, alleged, between a Selim's daughter, maybe Gevherhan Sultan, to Saadet I Giray.^[1]

After her first husband's death, the Crimean princess entered in 1511 the harem of her husband's half-brother, the future Sultan Selim I (1512–1520),^[2] when he was the governor of Amasya, thus securing for him, in the person of her powerful father, a valuable ally in the prince's struggle for the throne.^[3]

See also

• List of consorts of the Ottoman Sultans

Notes and References

1. Kinship in the Altaic World: Proceedings of the 48th Permanent International
2. Ilya V. Zaytsev, The Structure of the Giray Dynasty (15th-16th centuries): Matrimonial and Kinship Relations of the Crimean Khans in Elena Vladimirovna Boĭkova, R. B. Rybakov (ed.), Kinship in the Altaic World: Proceedings of the 48th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Moscow 10–15 July 2005, p.341
3. Maryna Kravets, From Nomad's Tent to Garden Palace: Evolution of a Chinggisid Household in the Crimea in Gillian Long, Uradyn Erden Bulag, Michael Gervers (ed.) History and society in central and inner Asia: papers presented at the Central and Inner Asia Seminar, University of Toronto, 16–17 April 2004, Asian Institute, University of Toronto, 2005, p.53 on line