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Edadil Kadın

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Father
  
Tandal Bey Aredba

Religion
  
Islam

Mother
  
Aublaa Hanım

Edadil Kadın

Burial
  
near the mausoleum of Sultan Mahmud II, located at Divan Yolu street

Issue
  
Şehzade Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi Emine Sultan

House
  
House of Aredba (by birth) House of Osman (by marriage)

Died
  
1875, Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, Turkey

Spouse
  
Abdulaziz of the Ottoman Empire (m. 1861)

Parents
  
Tandal Bey Aredba, Aublaa Hanım

Similar
  
Abdulaziz of the Ottoman, Pertevniyal Sultan, Mahmud II, Abdulmejid I, Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin

Edadil Kadın (c. 1845 - c. 1875) was the second wife of 32nd Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz. She was the mother of Şehzade Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi and Emine Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Her marriage served an alliance between the Ottomans and the buffer state.

Biography

Edadil Kadın was born in 1845 to the Abkhazian prince Tandal Bey Aredba and his wife Aublaa Hanım. She was taken to the palace by one of the countryman of the palace. She was given private education by Pertevniyal Valide Sultan. She had blue eyes and long brown hair. She was noticed by and her married her in 1861, the year he ascended the throne. The marriage took place at Dolmabahçe Palace. She was also known as Cülus Kadın Efendi.

A year after the marriage in 1862 she gave birth to Şehzade Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi and then in 1866 to Emine Sultan. However Emine sultan died in infancy in 1867. She also had a brother, Aslan Bey, who used to life in Caucasus and he wanted to go on a pilgrimage. For this reason he requested his sister, Edadil to go on a pilgrimage with him. After the pilgrimage they came back to Istanbul and the ship was sent to Arabian Peninsula. With this ship the whole family and relatives of Edadil came to Istanbul. However, when her brother was in Istanbul he got very ill and died in a mansion at Tophane. Her was buried in the garden of a mosque in Tophane. Edadil was very upset on the death of her brother.

She died in 1875, one year before her husband's deposition and death and was buried near the mausoleum of Sultan Mahmud II, located at Divan Yolu street.

References

Edadil Kadın Wikipedia