Fatma Emetullah Sultan (daughter of Mehmed IV) explained

Fatma Emetullah Sultan (; 1679, Edirne or Constantinople - 13 December 1700, Constantinople) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Mehmed IV and his Haseki Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan. She was the sister of Sultans Mustafa II and Ahmed III.

Fatma Emetullah Sultan
Birth Date: 1679
Birth Place:Edirne Palace, Edirne, Ottoman Empire or Topkapi Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Death Place:Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial Place:Mausoleum of Turhan Sultan, New Mosque, Eminönü, Constantinople
Spouse:
Issue:First marriage
Rukiye Hanimsultan
Second marriage
Safiye Hanimsultan
House:Ottoman
House-Type:Dynasty
Father:Mehmed IV
Mother:Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan
Religion:Sunni Islam

Early life

She was born between in 1679 circa at Edirne Palace or Topkapi Palace, to Mehmed IV and his favorite and Haseki Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan.[1] Her second name was given in honor of her mother. She was the sixth and last child of her parents and the fourth daughters.

Marriages

Her brother, Mustafa II, married her to Tırnakçı Çerkes Ibrahim Pasha in September 1695; whom he first granted the rank of deputy of Silistre, then later executed, in September 1697. They had a daughter.

She subsequently married Topal Yusuf Paşa in 1697. They had a daughter.[2] [3]

Issue

By her first marriage, Fatma had a daughter:

By her second marriage, Fatma had a second daughter:

Death

Fatma Sultan died on December 13, 1700, from plague, tuberculosis, or according to other sources, postpartum complications. During the funeral, she was accompanied by a procession of statesmen together with her husband. She was buried in the Turhan Sultan Mosque, her paternal grandmother, next to her father.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Majer, Hans Georg. The Journal of Ottoman Studies XII: The Harem of Mustafa II (1695-1703). 1992. 441.
  2. Book: Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay. Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara, Ötüken. 2011. 110.
  3. Book: Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha. Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha. Nusretnâme: Tahlil ve Metin (1106-1133/1695-1721). 2001. 135, 458–9, 841.
  4. According to Necdet Sakaoğlu, also Safiye was daughter of her first marriage. If this were true, and it true also that Fatma had died in childbirth, it would mean that Fatma had an unknown third child with her second husband, stillborn or stillborn shortly after birth.