Koca Mustafa Pasha Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Koca
Mustafa
Honorific-Suffix:Pasha
Office1:23rd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Monarch1:Bayezid II
Term Start1:1511
Term End1:1512
Predecessor1:Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha
Successor1:Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha
Birth Date:Unknown
Death Date:1512
Death Place:Bursa, Ottoman Empire
Nationality:Ottoman
Spouse:Kamerşah Sultan
Children:Hundi Hanımsultan
Sultanzade Osman Bey

Koca Mustafa Pasha (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: كودجا مصطفى باشا; died 1512) was an Ottoman statesman. He was grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1511 to 1512.[1] He was Roman (Rum) and probably not a devşirme.[2]

Life

He started his career as kapıcıbaşı, that is "chief doorkeeper" of the Topkapi Palace: in this office he acted also as Master of Ceremonies at receptions of foreign ambassadors. He married a daughter of Sultan Bayezid II, Kamerşah Sultan, in 1491 and by her he had a daughter, Hundi Hanımsultan, and a son, Sultanzade Osman Bey. Appointed Grand Vizier near the end of the reign of Bayezid II, he was executed in 1512.[3] In Istanbul he let convert into mosques two ancient Byzantine churches, which were both named after him: respectively Koca Mustafa Pasha and Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque.[4] [5]

Sources

. Semavi Eyice . Istanbul: Petit guide à travers les monuments byzantins et turcs . Istanbul Matbaası . Istanbul . French . 1955.

. Wolfgang Müller-Wiener . Bildlexikon Zur Topographie Istanbuls: Byzantion, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul Bis Zum Beginn D. 17 Jh . Wasmuth . Tübingen . 1977 . German . 978-3-8030-1022-3.

Notes and References

  1. İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 13. (Turkish)
  2. Book: Türkçülük ve Türkçülük mücadeleleri tarihi. 1969. 53. 11 - Koca Mustafa Paşa (Rum) . Meram . Ali Kemal .
  3. Eyice (1955), p. 92.
  4. Müller-Wiener (1977), p. 173.
  5. Müller-Wiener (1977), p. 83.