Full Name Fatma Ethnicity Croatian Name Fatma Hatun Died Istanbul, Turkey Parents Kuyucu Murad Pasha | Resting place Istanbul Religion Islam Role Wife of Ahmed I Spouse Ahmed I Residence Istanbul, Turkey | |
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Children Sehzade Cihangir, Sehzade Hasan, Sehzade Selim, Sehzade Orhan | ||
Kosem Era: Fatma Hatun The Wife Of Sultan Ahmed I
Fatma Hatun was the second wife of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I and the mother of Sehzade Cihangir, Sehzade Hasan, Sehzade Selim and Sehzade Orhan.
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Biography
Fatma Hatun was born to Kuyucu Murad Pasha, who served as grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Ahmed I between 9 December 1606 and 5 August 1611. She was married to Ahmed in 1604. She was the second of Ahmed I's three women and bore him four sons, Sehzade Cihangir, Sehzade Hasan, Sehzade Selim and Sehzade Orhan, but all of them died in infancy.
Venetian ambassador Simon Contarini, in his 1612 reports, suggests an incident that Fatma Hatun, like Akile Hatun, the wife of Ahmed's successor, Osman II and the daughter of Seyhulislam Haci Mehmed Esadullah Efendi, never entered the Imperial Harem. According to Contarini, when roughly a decade earlier Fatma Hatun had wanted to enter the harem of Sultan Ahmed I, the harem stewardess (kethuda kadin) had discouraged her by arguing that she would lose her mind among so many slaves and her sons would probably be killed through the practice of fratricide.
It is also possible that she was banished from the harem like Mahfiruz Hatice Sultan, Ahmed's first wife and the mother of Osman II, or that the prospect of the daughter residing within the imperial harem may have been an important element in the unpopularity of the marriage.