Tenure 1845 – 15 May 1850 Mother Ferhunde Hanım Spouse Abdulmejid I | Father Hatuğ Bey Baras Religion Sunni Islam | |
Born Hatice Baras
c. 1830
Abkhazia, Russian Empire ( 1830 ) Issue Şehzade Ahmed
Nazime Sultan
Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin House House of Baras (by birth)
House of Osman (by marriage) Died 15 May 1850, Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey Place of burial New Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey Parents Ferhunde Hanım, Hatuğ Bey Baras | ||
Nükhetseza Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: نکت سزا خانم; c. 1830 – 15 May 1850) was the principal consort of Sultan Abdülmecid I of the Ottoman Empire.
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Life
Nükhetseza Hanım was born in 1830 in Abkhazia. Born as Hatice Baras, she was the daughter of Baras Hatuğ Bey, an Abkhazian noble, and his wife Ferhunde Hanım, a Georgian. When she was eight, her family emigrated from Caucasus to Istanbul, where she was delivered at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. Valide sultan Bezmiâlem Sultan took Hatice in her care. She was renamed Nükhetseza and was given a thoroughly Turkish and Muslim education in the harem department of Topkapı Palace. Receiving her education in the palace, she was interested in playing piano and oud.
Nükhetseza grew into an into a young lady in the Topkapı Palace, and when she entered her fourteenth year she was noticed by Sultan Abdülmecid I. Abdülmecid proposed her and Nükhetseza consented to the will of their parents in the marriage proposal of the Sultan. In 1845 Nükhetseza married Abdülmecid, and she was given the title of Baş İkbâl. She is the great-grandmother of Prince Bayezid Osman Efendi, who is the present and 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman.
Tuberculosis took its victims in the palace as elsewhere in the nineteenth century and Nükhetseza was one of them. She died at the Beşiktaş Palace on 15 May 1850 and was buried in the Mausoleum of the imperial ladies at the Yeni Mosque, Istanbul.
Children
Nükhetsezâ and Abdülmecid had at least three children: