Ayşe Sultan (Haseki of Osman II)

Ayşe Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: عایشه سلطان; "the living one" or "womanly", died c. 1640) was a consort of Sultan Osman II of the Ottoman Empire.[1][2][3]

For other uses, see Ayşe Sultan.
Ayşe Sultan
Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
(Imperial Consort)
TenureJanuary 1620 – 20 May 1622
PredecessorKösem Sultan
SuccessorAyşe Sultan
Diedc. 1640
Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
SpouseOsman II
Names
Turkish: Ayşe Sultan
Ottoman Turkish: عایشه سلطان
HouseHouse of Osman (by marriage)

Life

Her name appears in privy purse registers from 1619 on,[4] but nothing is known about her except her name.[3][1]

According to Peirce, Ayşe was Osman's haseki sultan. But according to Piterberg, Osman II did not have a haseki and Ayşe was just "a politically insignificant consort." Even though her status was debatable, it is clear that Ayşe could not become a prominent female figure like other haseki sultans. Also, a governess (daye hatun, lit. wet-nurse) who was appointed as a stand-in valide, could not counterbalance the contriving of Mustafa I's mother in the Old Palace. This condition made the conspious absence of a female power basis in the harem during her spouse's reign, the basic and exceptional weakness from which Osman II suffered.[5]

After Osman's death in 1622 she stayed in the Old Palace.[1] Privy Purse records her presence lastly in 1640.[4]

References
  1. Peirce 1993, p. 106.
  2. Gabriel Piterberg (2003). An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. University of California Press. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-520-93005-6.
  3. Uluçay 2011, p. 88.
  4. Peirce 1993, p. 311.
  5. Piterberg, Gabriel (2003). An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. California: University of California Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-520-23836-2.

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