Hafize Sultan Explained

Hafize Sultan

Spouse:
Issue:	Second marriage Sultanzade Kara Osman Şah Paşah
House:	Ottoman
House-Type:	Dynasty
Father:	Selim I
Mother:	Hafsa Sultan
Birth Date:	ante 1494
Birth Place:	Trabzon, Ottoman Empire
Death Date:	10 July 1538
Death Place:	Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial Place:	Yavuz Selim Mosque, Istanbul
Religion:	Sunni Islam

Hafize Hafsa Sultan^[1] (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: حفصة سلطان, "the keeper one" and "young lioness"; ante 1494 - 10 July 1538) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Selim I and his favorite Hafsa Hatun. She was therefore the sister of Suleiman the Magnificent.^[2]

Origins

Hafize, also called Hafsa, Hafife, Hafisa or Hafiza in the sources, was born before 1494 in Trebizond, on the Black Sea, by the then Şehzade Selim, son of Bayezid II and governor of the province. Her mother was Hafsa Hatun, Selim's favorite, who in 1494 give birth Selim's successor, Suleiman.^[3]

In 1512, her father became Sultan, while Hafize was already married in 1511 and lived with her husband. When her husband became Grand Vizier, she moved with him to Constantinople.

Marriage

Hafize Sultan married twice:

She married for the first time in 1511. Her first husband was Grand Vizier Dukaginzade Ahmed Paşa, executed in 1515.
Her second husband, married in 1522, was Boşnak Mustafa Paşah. From this marriage she had her only child, a son, Sultanzade Kara Osman Şah Paşah.

Death

Hafize died on July 10, 1538, in Constantinople. She was buried next to her father in the Yavuz Selim Mosque.

Bibliography

Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, .
Uluçay, M. Çağatay (1992). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken.
Yılmaz Öztuna - Yavuz Sultan Selim
Necdet Sakaoğlu - Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları

Notes and References

Called also Hafise, Hafiza or Hafisa.
Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, .
According to Leslie Peirce, the rules at the time dictated that concubines mothers of a male child no longer share the sultan's bed. So, all of Hafsa's daughters must therefore have been born before 1494, the year of Suleiman's birth.