Mahfiruz Hatun
Haseki Sultan Of Sultan Ahmed I And Mother of Osman ll
Hatice Mahfiruz Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: خدیجه ماه فیروز سلطان, romanized: Ḫadīce Māh-Fīrūz Sulṭān, "glorious moon", "daytime moon" or "turquoise moon"; also called Mahfiruze Sultan; c. 1590 – 1608/1620/1628) was the chief consort of Ottoman sultan Ahmed I and mother of his firstborn son, Osman II.
Biography
Her origins are unknown, although she has been described as being Greek, and that she taught Osman Greek. This hypothesis was eventually disproven by Turkish historian Baki Tezcan as based on the novel: Histoire d'Osman premier du nom, XIXe empereur des turcs, et de l'impératrice Aphendina Ashada by Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez published in 1743.
Her Name
The Turkish historian Yılmaz Öztuna calls her "Hadîce Mâh-Fîrûz(e)" and the Turkish historian Necdet Sakaoğlu says she was variously called "Mahirûze, Hatice Mahfirûze, Mahfirûze, Mahfirûz, Mah-ı Feyrûz". Her name was first recorded in The Chronicle of Naima (Tārīḫ-i Naʿīmā), written by Ottoman historian Mustafa Naima around 1700, quoting Mahfiruz as a "noble and august" lady.
Early life in the harem
Mahfiruz was presented by Servazad Hatun to Handan Sultan, mother of Sultan Ahmed I, who personally chose her for her son.
On 3 November 1604 Mahfiruz gave birth to his firstborn son, the future Osman II, making Ahmed I the youngest Ottoman sultan to have fathered a child. According to Ahmet Refik Altınay, in the following years, she bore the Sultan other children, including Şehzade Bayezid in 1612, Şehzade Hüseyn in 1613, Şehzade Süleyman in 1615, an information reproduced by several authors; foreign ambassadors report a daughter who reached adulthood and got married, identified as Gevherhan Sultan and born between 1605 and 1608. These children may contradict the theory of a premature death.
As Haseki Sultan (?)
According to some historians, she held the title of Haseki Sultan from January 1604, an information mentioned also by the French historian and politician Alphonse de Lamartine. The fact that Mahfiruz was the first one to be entitled Chief Haseki is also underlined and explained by Tektaş, who writes that Kösem wouldn't have allowed another woman to hold the title after herself.
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