Gülçiçek Hatun Explained

Gülçiçek Hatun (ota|گلچیچک خاتون; "rose blossom", -) was a Greek woman from Bithynia^[1] who became a concubine of Ottoman Sultan Murad I and Valide Hatun to their son Bayezid I.^[2]

Biography

According to a tradition, Gülçiçek was a concubine of Aclan Bey, one of the Princes of the Anatolian Muslim Principality of Karasids. She was captured when Orhan conquered the principality (1344) and placed in the Sultan's harem. Around 1359, when Orhan's son Murad had reached adulthood, she became his concubine.^[3]

She gave birth to Murad two sons, Bayezid I and Yahşi Bey. She appointed her son Yahşi as trustee for an endowment deed she made for a Dervish Monastery. In her lifetime she established a religious and charitable foundation which demonstrated her Muslim piety publicly. With its revenues she built a mosque, the first Ottoman concubine to built one, and a tomb in Bursa where she was buried when she died, around 1400.^{[4] [5]}

See also

• Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman dynasty
• Ottoman family tree
• Valide sultan
• List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire
• Line of succession to the Ottoman throne
• Ottoman Emperors family tree (simplified)
• List of consorts of the Ottoman Sultans

Further reading

• Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, (paperback).

Notes and References

1. Book: Lowry, Heath W.. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State. 2012-02-01. SUNY Press. 978-0-7914-8726-6. 153. en.
2. Web site: Sultan Yıldırım Beyezid Han . 2009-02-06 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140813102852/http://www.kultur.gov.tr/EN/BelgeGoster.aspx?17A16AE30572D313A79D6F5E6C1B43FFA6B896F16D985D5D . August 13, 2014 .
3. Book: Leslie P. Peirce. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Wives and Concubines: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. 1993. Oxford University Press. 36. 978-0-195-08677-5.
4. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State, Heath W. Lowry, State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), p. 153
5. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Stanford Jay Shaw, Cambridge University Press, p. 28