Bedrifelek Kadın

Bedrifelek Kadın (Ottoman Turkish: بدر فلك قادین‎; 4 January 1851 – 6 February 1930) was the second wife and chief consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.

Bedrifelek Kadın
Born4 January 1851
Poti, Georgia
Died6 February 1930(1930-02-06) (aged 79)
Serencebey Mansion, Istanbul, Turkey
Burial
Yahya Efendi cemetery, Istanbul
Spouse
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m. 1868; died 1918)
Issue
Full name
Turkish: Bedrifelek Kadın
Ottoman Turkish: بدر فلك قادین‎
HouseKerzedzh (by birth)
Ottoman (by marriage)
FatherKerzedzh Mehmed
Motherİnal-lpa Faruhan
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Bedrifelek Kadın was born on 4 January 1851 in Poti, Georgia. She was a member of Natukhai Circassian princely family, House of Kerzedzh (Adyghe: Къэрзэдж). Her father was Prince Kerzedzh Mehmed Bey, and her mother was Princess İnal-lpa Faruhan Hanım, an Abkhazian. She had an elder sister, Princess Bezmigül Dilber Hanım, and a younger brother, Prince Kazım Pasha. She was the maternal niece of Sultan Abdulmejid I's wife Şayeste Hanım. She also had three younger half-sisters, Princess Şazıdil Hanım, Princess Nevrestan Hanım and Princess Melekistan Hanım, whose mother was her father's second wife, Melekyar Hanım Vorkoj.[1]

In 1864, aged thirteen, during the ethnic cleansing of Circassians, she had been brought to Istanbul, where her father entrusted her and her sisters in the care of their aunt Şayeste Hanım. Here her name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Bedrifelek.[1]

Marriage

Bedrifelek married Abdul Hamid on 15 November 1868 in the Dolmabahçe Palace. After her marriage, her younger brother Kazım Pasha was given the post of Sixth Army Cavalry in Baghdad.[2]

A year after the marriage, on 11 January 1870, she gave birth to the couple's first child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Selim,[3] followed two years later by Zekiye Sultan, born on 21 January 1872.[4]

After Abdul Hamid's accession to the throne on 31 August 1876,[5] she was given the title of the "Second Consort".[6][7] In 1877, Bedrifelek and other members of the imperial family settled in the Yıldız Palace,[8] after Abdul Hamid moved there on 7 April 1877.[9] Here on 11 February 1878, she gave birth to the couple's third child, a son, Şehzade Ahmed Nuri.[10] She was beautiful woman with blue eyes. She was one of the only wives of Abdul Hamid who didn’t showed jealousy on other wives of Abdul Hamid, and always approached the other wives of Abdul Hamid with kindness and smile. [11]

On 16 September 1895,[11] after the death of Abdul Hamid's first wife, Nazikeda Kadın, Bedrifelek was installed the principal consort with the title of "Senior Consort".[6][7] After Perestu Kadın's death in 1904, she became the principal lady in the imperial harem.[6]

On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Thessaloniki.[12] Bedrifelek didn't followed him, and so remained in Istanbul.[2] After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.[13]

Death

After the imperial family was sent into exile in 1924, Bedrifelek settled in a mansion in Serencebey, where she died on 6 February 1930 at the age of seventy-nine. She was buried in Yahya Efendi cemetery, Istanbul.[14]

Issue

Bedrifelek Kadın and Abdul Hamid had three children:

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See also

References
  1. Açba 2007, p. 124.
  2. Açba 2007, p. 125.
  3. Freely, John (July 1, 2001). Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul. Penguin. p. 287.
  4. Tuğlacı, Pars (1985). Türkiyeʼde kadın, Volume 3. Cem Yayınevi. p. 331.
  5. Clare, Israel Smith (1885). Illustrated Universal History: Being a Clear and Concise History of All Nations. P. W. Ziegler & Company. p. 549.
  6. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 672.
  7. Uluçay 2011, p. 246.
  8. Oriental Gardens: An Illustrated History. Chronicle Books. 1992. pp. 21. ISBN 978-0-811-80132-4.
  9. NewSpot, Volumes 13-24. General Directorate of Press and Information. 1999.
  10. Bey, Mehmet Sürreya (1969). Osmanlı devletinde kim kimdi, Volume 1. Küğ Yayını. p. 132.
  11. Uru, Cevriye (2010). Sultan II. Abdülhamid’in kızı Zekiye Sultan’ın hayatı (1872-1950). p. 3.
  12. Hall, Richard C. (October 9, 2014). War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-610-69031-7.
  13. Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroation heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.
  14. Açba 2007, p. 125-6.

Sources
  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
  • Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kandınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-6-051-71079-2.
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