Nükhetsezâ Hanım

Nükhetseza Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: نکت سزا خانم‎; born Hatice Baras; 2 January 1827 – 15 May 1850) was the ninth wife of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire.

Nükhetsezâ Hanım
BornHatice Baras
(1827-01-02)2 January 1827
Abkhazia
Died15 May 1850(1850-05-15) (aged 23)
Old Beşiktaş Palace, Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
(present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial
Imperial ladies Mausoleum, New Mosque, Istanbul
SpouseAbdulmejid I
Issue
  • Şehzade Ahmed
  • Fatma Nazime Sultan
  • Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin
Full name
Turkish: Nükhetsezâ Hanım
Ottoman Turkish: نکت سزا خانم‎
HouseBaras (by birth)
Ottoman (by marriage)
FatherHatuğ Baras
MotherFerhunde Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Nükhetsezâ Hanım was born on 2 January 1827[1] in Abkhazia. Born as Hatice Baras, she belonged to the Abkhazian noble family, Baras. Her father was Hatuğ Bey Baras, an Abkhazian noble and her mother was Ferhunde Hanım, a Georgian.[2] She had an elder sister named Şeklibar Hanım (died 1911).[3]

In 1835, at the age of eight, Hatice had been brought to Istanbul, where her father entrusted her in the care of Bezmiâlem Sultan. Here name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Nükhetsezâ.[2]

Nükhetsezâ was interested in playing piano and oud.[2]

Marriage

Nükhetseza married Abdulmejid in 1845. She was given the title of "Senior Fortunate".[4] A year after the marriage, on 5 June 1846, she gave birth to her first child, a son, Şehzade Ahmed in the Old Çırağan Palace. The prince, died the next day on 6 June 1846.[4]

A year later, on 26 November 1847, she gave birth to her second child, a daughter, Fatma Nazime Sultan in the Old Beylerbeyi Palace. [5] The princess died five days later on 1 December 1847.[6]

A year later, on 23 May 1849, she gave birth to her third child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin in the Old Beylerbeyi Palace.[7]

Death

Nükhetsezâ fall in the epidemic of tuberculosis which was raging in the nineteenth century, Nükhetsezâ died on 15 May 1850, [7] at the Old Beşiktaş Palace, and was buried in the mausoleum of the imperial ladies at the Yeni Mosque, Istanbul.[3][8]

She is the great-grandmother of Prince Bayezid Osman, the son of her grandson Şehzade Ibrahim Tevfik, who was the 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman.

Issue

Together with Abdulmejid, Nükhetsezâ had three children:

  • Şehzade Ahmed (Old Çırağan Palace, 5 June 1846 – Old Çırağan Palace, 6 June 1846);
  • Fatma Nazime Sultan (Old Beylerbeyi Palace, 26 November 1847 – 1 December 1847, buried in New Mosque – Refia Sultan türbesi);
  • Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin (Old Beylerbeyi Palace, Bosphorus, 23 May 1849 – Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, 4 November 1876);
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See also

References
  1. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 600.
  2. Açba 2007, p. 57.
  3. Açba 2007, p. 58.
  4. Uluçay 2011, p. 216.
  5. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 13.
  6. Uluçay 2011, p. 226.
  7. Uluçay 2011, p. 217.
  8. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 601.

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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