Şehzade Ömer Hilmi

Şehzade Ömer Hilmi (Ottoman Turkish: شہزادہ عمر حلمى‎; 2 March 1886 – 6 April 1935)[2] was an Ottoman prince, the third son of Sultan Mehmed V, and his consort Mihrengiz Kadın.[3]

Şehzade Ömer Hilmi
Born2 March 1886
Dolmabahçe Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died6 April 1935(1935-04-06) (aged 49)
Alexandria, Egypt
Burial
Khedive Tewfik Pasha Mausoleum, Cairo
Spouse
  • Nesimter Hanım
    (
    div. 1915)
  • Gülnev Hanım
    ​
    (
    m. 1910; died 1919)
  • Bahtıter Hanım
    (
    m. before 1921)
    [1]
Issue
DynastyOttoman
FatherMehmed V
MotherMihrengiz Kadın
ReligionSunni Islam

Early years

Şehzade Ömer Hilmi was born in the apartment of the crown prince, Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul,[4] on 2 March 1886. His father was Sultan Mehmed V, and his mother was Mihrengiz Kadın.[5][6] He was the grandson of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Gülcemal Kadın.[4]

Between 1911 and 1912, Ömer Hilmi attended the Imperial War College with his eldest brother Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin. In 1916, during the First World War he served as the honory colonel of the infantry in the imperial army.[7][8]

On 2 September 1909, Ömer Hilmi travelled to Bursa with his father, Sultan Reşad, and brothers, Şehzade Ziyaeddin and Şehzade Necmeddin.[9] Between 5 and 26 June 1911, he travelled to Rulmelia with his father and brothers.[10][11]

On 15 October 1917, he met with the German emperor Wilhelm II, when the latter visited Istanbul in 1917.[12] On 9 May 1918, he also met with the Emperor Charles I of Austria, when the latter visited Istanbul in 1918,[13] with his wife Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma.[14]

Ömer Hilmi was known to openly support the nationalists, and was against his father's policies.[15]

Personal life

Ömer Hilmi's first wife was Nesimter Hanım. The two divorced in January 1915.[1] His second wife was Gülnev Hanım. She was born on 21 February 1890. They married in October 1910. She gave birth to two children, Mukbile Sultan, born in 1911, followed by Şehzade Mahmud Namık, born in 1913. She died on 31 December 1919, aged twenty nine.[16] His third wife was Bahtıter Hanım.[1]

In 1910, Ömer Hilmi came into possession of the villa built by the Egyptian Khedive Isma'il Pasha in the hills above Üsküdar, Istanbul on the Asian side of the Bosphorus.[17]

Ömer Hilmi was described as attractive and vigorous man, and the one who shied away from conversation.[18]

Exile and death

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Ömer Hilmi,[5] his mother,[19] and his two children, settled firstly in Beirut, Lebanon, then in Nice, France,[20] and finally settling in Alexandria, Egypt. He died at Alexandria on 6 April 1935, aged forty nine, and was buried there. His remains were later interred in the mausoleum of Khedive Tewfik Pasha in Cairo, Egypt.[5] His mother outlived him by three years, dying in 1938.[21]

Honours
Ottoman orders and decorations

Issue

Ömer Hilmi had two children, one son and one daughter:

  • Mukbile Sultan (Dolmabahçe Palace, 17 September 1911 – Istanbul, 21 May 1995, buried in Mehmed V Mausoleum, Eyüb), married and had issue, an only son;
  • Şehzade Mahmud Namık (Dolmabahçe Palace, 23 December 1913 – Cairo, Egypt, 13 November 1963, buried in Khedive Tawfik Mausoleum, Cairo, transferred to Sultan Mahmud II Mausoleum Istanbul in 1987), married and had issue, an only son;

Ancestry

References
  1. Kırpık, Cevdet (2011). Şehzade Evliliklerinde Değişim. OTAM. pp. 184, 187.
  2. Almanach de Gotha (184th ed.). Almanach de Gotha. 2000. pp. 365, 912–915.
  3. Ali Vâsib, Bir Şehzadenin Hâtırâtı: Vatan ve Menfâda Gördüklerim ve İşittiklerim, Yapı Kredi Kültür Yayınları, 2004, ISBN 978-975-08-0878-4, p. 205
  4. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 33.
  5. Brookes 2010, p. 287.
  6. Fahrettin 2018, p. 141.
  7. Fahrettin 2018, p. 141-42.
  8. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Royal Families of the World, Africa & the Middle East, Burke's Peerage, 1980, p. 247.
  9. Alp 2018, p. 125.
  10. Fahrettin 2018, p. 144.
  11. Alp 2018, p. 130.
  12. Alp 2018, p. 131-32.
  13. Fahrettin 2018, p. 154-55.
  14. Açba, Leyla (2004). Bir Çerkes prensesinin harem hatıraları. L & M. p. 58. ISBN 978-9-756-49131-7.
  15. Shaw, Stanford Jay. From empire to republic: the Turkish war of national liberation, 1918-1923 : a documentary study. Turkish Historical Society. p. 1382. ISBN 978-9-751-61228-1.
  16. Brookes 2010, p. 282.
  17. Brookes 2010, p. 208.
  18. Brookes, Douglas S. (4 February 2020). On the Sultan's Service: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil's Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, 1909–1912. Indiana University Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-253-04553-9.
  19. Brookes 2010, p. 284.
  20. Vâsıb, Ali; Osmanoğlu, Osman Selaheddin (2004). Bir şehzadenin hâtırâtı: vatan ve menfâda gördüklerim ve işittiklerim. YKY. pp. 204, 210, 224. ISBN 978-9-750-80878-4.
  21. Brookes 2010, p. 284, 287.

Bibliography
  • Alp, Ruhat (2018). Osmanlı Devleti’nde Veliahtlık Kurumu (1908-1922).
  • Gün, Fahrettin (2018). Sultan V. Mehmed Reşad ve dönemi. TBMM Milli Saraylar. ISBN 978-9-752-46418-6.
  • Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
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