Hafize Sultan
Bornante 1494
Trabzon, Ottoman Empire
Died10 July 1538
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1511; dead 1515)

Boşnak Mustafa Pasha
(m. 1522)
IssueSecond marriage
Sultanzade Kara Osman Şah Paşah
DynastyOttoman
FatherSelim I
MotherHafsa Sultan
ReligionSunni Islam

Hafize Hafsa Sultan[1] (Ottoman Turkish: حفصة سلطان, "the keeper one" and "young lioness"; ante 1494 - 10 July 1538) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Selim I and his favorite Hafsa Hatun. She was therefore the sister of Suleiman the Magnificent.[2]

Origins

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Hafize, also called Hafsa, Hafife, Hafisa or Hafiza in the sources, was born before 1494 in Trebizond, on the Black Sea, by the then Şehzade Selim, son of Bayezid II and governor of the province. Her mother was Hafsa Hatun, Selim's favorite, who in 1494 give birth Selim's successor, Suleiman.[3]

In 1512, her father became Sultan, while Hafize was already married in 1511 and lived with her husband. When her husband became Grand Vizier, she moved with him to Constantinople.

Marriage

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Hafize Sultan married twice:

Death

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Hafize died on July 10, 1538, in Constantinople. She was buried next to her father in the Yavuz Selim Mosque.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Called also Hafise, Hafiza or Hafisa.
  2. ^ Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-508677-5.
  3. ^ According to Leslie Peirce, the rules at the time dictated that concubines mothers of a male child no longer share the sultan's bed. So, all of Hafsa's daughters must therefore have been born before 1494, the year of Suleiman's birth.

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