Verdicenan Kadın

Verdicenan Kadın (Ottoman Turkish: ورد جنان قادين‎; born Princess Saliha Achba; 18 October 1825 – 9 December 1889) was the seventh wife of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire.[1]

Verdicenan Kadın
BornSaliha Achba
(1825-10-18)18 October 1825
Sukhumi, Abkhazia
Died9 December 1889(1889-12-09) (aged 64)
Feriye Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Imperial ladies Mausoleum, New Mosque, Istanbul
Spouse
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m. 1844; died 1861)
Issue
Full name
Turkish: Verdicenan Kadın
Ottoman Turkish: وردجنان قادین‎
HouseAnchabadze (by birth)
Ottoman (by marriage)
FatherKaytuk Giorgi Achba
MotherYelizaveta Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Verdicenan Kadın was born on 18 October 1825 in Sukhumi, Abkhazia. Born as Saliha Achba, she was a member of Abkhazian princely family, Anchabadze.[2] Her father was Prince Kaytuk Giorgi Bey Achba (1793–1848), and her mother was Princess Yelizaveta Hanım (1795–1843).[3] She had four elder siblings, two brothers, Prince Islam Bey and Prince Ahmet Bey,[2] and two sisters, Princess Peremrüz Hanım and Princess Embruvaz Hanım,[4] and a younger brother, Prince Mehmed Bey.[3]

Saliha had been brought to Istanbul as a young child, where her father entrusted her and her sisters to the care of Bezmiâlem Sultan, the mother of Sultan Abdulmejid I, and was related to them. Here her name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Verdicenan.[4]

Marriage

Verdicenan married Abdulmejid for a political alliance,[5] in 1844. She was given the title of "Sixth Consort".[1] Her whole family was ennobled, father, brothers and nephews. The most notorious were her brother, Islam Bey's son Rasim Bey, who was given the position of doctor in the palace and her brother Ahmet Bey's son Osman Pasha, who was given the position of aide at Sultan Abdulaziz's palace.[6]

On 8 December 1844, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Münire Sultan in the Topkapı Palace.[7][8] In 1845, she was elevated to "Fifth Consort". On 16 July 1848, she gave birth to Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin, in the Old Çırağan Palace.[9][10] In 1851, she was elevated to "Fourth Consort", and in 1852, to "Third Consort".[1]

Widowhood

After Abdulmejid's death in 1861, she moved to Feriye Palace.[6] In 1862, a year later, her daughter Münire Sultan died at the age of seventeen.[8]

After Gülüstü Hanım's death in 1865,[11] her daughter Mediha Sultan was entrusted in Verdicenan's care. The relationship between Mediha and Verdicenan was like mother and daughter, she kept Mediha under close surveillance, and always helped Mediha whenever she had problems. [12] In 1879, Verdicenan played a major role in Mediha Sultan's marriage to Samipashazade Necip Bey.[13][1][14]

Mediha Sultan wrote a letter to Perestu Kadın, the adoptive mother of Abdul Hamid II, the Valide Sultan of that time. [15] Perestu Kadın, who received the letter, could not remain unresponsive to the situation of Mediha Sultan and looked after her son Abdul Hamid II He should have read the letter. Abdul Hamid allowed the marriage preparations of Necib Bey and Mediha Sultan to start. After all these events and perpetrations, Mediha Sultan married her lover Necib Pasha on 20 January 1879. [16] After the marriage, Verdicenan wrote a letter to Abdul Hamid II about thanking him for marrying her daughter to the person she loved. [17]

Death

Verdicenan Kadın died on 9 December 1889 in the Feriye Palace, and was buried in the mausoleum of the imperial ladies at the Yeni Mosque, Istanbul.[6][1][14][18]

Issue

Together with Abdulmejid, Verdicenan had two children:

  • Münire Sultan (Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, 9 December 1844 – Istanbul, 29 June 1862, buried in Gülüstü Hanım Mausoleum, Fatih, Istanbul), married two times and had issue;
  • Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin (Old Çırağan Palace, Istanbul, 16 July 1848 – Beşiktaş Palace, Istanbul, 26 April 1905, buried in Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Mausoleum, Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul), married and had issue;

See also

References
  1. Uluçay 2011, p. 211.
  2. Açba 2007, p. 34.
  3. Tuna 2007, p. 23.
  4. Tuna 2007, p. 25.
  5. Açba 2007, p. 33-34.
  6. Açba 2007, p. 35.
  7. Uluçay 2011, p. 225.
  8. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 588.
  9. Bey, Mehmet Sürreya (1969). Osmanlı devletinde kim kimdi, Volume 1. Küğ Yayını. p. 199.
  10. The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
  11. Bardakçı, Murat (2017). Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. Oxford University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-9-774-16837-6.
  12. Kahya 2012, p. 8.
  13. Fanny Davis (1986). The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 12, 17. ISBN 978-0-313-24811-5.
  14. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 589.
  15. Kahya 2012, p. 26.
  16. Kahya 2012, p. 27-28.
  17. Kahya 2012, p. 29.
  18. Kahya 2012, p. 5.

Sources
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  • 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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