Gümülcineli Nasuh Pasha
Who was the spouse of Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I) from 1612 to 1614?
Ayşe Sultan ( daughter of Ahmed I ) Ayşe Sultan ( ; 1605/08 – 1656/57 ) was an Ottoman princess , daughter of Sultan Ahmed I ( reign 1603–17 ) and Kösem Sultan , half-sister of Sultan Osman II ( reign 1618–22 ) and sister of Sultan Murad IV ( reign 1623–40 ) and Sultan Ibrahim ( reign 1640–48 ) of the Ottoman Empire . Ayşe is known for her many politically motivated marriages . Life . Birth . Born in Constantinople , Ayşe Sultan was one of Ahmeds daughters by his favourite consort Kösem Sultan . Her birth date is variously estimated as 1605 , 1606 , or 1608 . When mentioning her and Nasuh Pashas 1612 wedding , 17th-century historian Mustafa Naima refers to Ayşe as the youngest of the princesses . Marriages . The Ottoman princesses were normally married away , to influential Ottoman officials , by their mothers or paternal grandmothers , who had the right to arrange their marriages and arranged matches which could be of political use . They had privileges in marriage which separated them from other Muslim females : such as the right to be the only wife of their spouse , to refuse to consummate their marriage until they were ready , and to contract a divorce when they pleased . Due to many of them marrying as children and being widowed and divorced several times , often for political reasons , remarriages were very common . Ayşe and her sister , Fatma Sultan are extreme examples of this : they were married at least seven and six times , and entered into their last engagement at the ages of about 50 and 61 , respectively . Of the total number of Ayşes husbands , two were executed , one was assassinated and two fell in battle . Ayşe Sultan was married firstly in 1612 to Gümülcineli Nasuh Pasha ( d . 1614 ) , Grand Vizier 1611–14 . The celebrations of their engagement and wedding ceremonies , as well as those of her sister Gevherhan Sultan and Öküz Kara Mehmed Pasha , which took place in succession over a number of months of 1611 and 1612 , were sponsored by Ahmed , and were so elaborate and extravagant that they were observed by the public as if they were festivals marking the end of wars the Sultan had promised . In July of the latter year , the little princess was taken in great pomp to her husbands palace , where he would eventually be executed in her presence , much to her distress . This palace , located opposite the quay known as Salacak in Üsküdar , she retained as her own property . While still a child , Ayşe was married secondly to Karakaş Mehmed Pasha ( d . 1621 ) , Beylerbey ( governor-general ) of Buda . However the man soon died while fighting in Osman IIs military campaign against Poland , the marriage thus lasting less than a year . In 1626 her mother Kösem Sultan offered her hand in marriage to Hafız Ahmed Pasha ( 1564– 10 February 1632 ) , Grand Vizier 1625–26 , 1631–32 ; she wed the sixty-year-old man either in the same year or on 13 March 1627 . Only a month after the murder of Hafiz Pasha during a Janissary revolt against her brother Murad IV , Ayşe was betrothed to Murtaza Pasha ( d . 1636 ) , beylerbey of Diyarbekir and Vizier , the nuptials though not being held until his arrival at the imperial capitol of Constantinople in 1635 . This old and ailing husband she strongly disliked , according to Venetian reports , died – thus saving her from a unhappy life – during Murads military campaign against Revan , which took place in the course of the Ottoman–Safavid War ( 1623–39 ) . She was next married in 1639 to Ahmed Pasha ( d.1644 ) , beylerbey of Aleppo and Damascus , and in March 1645 to Voynuk Ahmed Pasha ( d . 28 July 1649 ) , beylerbey of Adana , Vizier , Admiral of the Fleet12/22 June 1648 – 28 July 1649 . In 1643 , early in the reign of her brother Ibrahim the Mad , Ayşe is recorded , like her sisters Fatma Sultan and Hanzade Sultan , as receiving the maximum daily stipend for imperial princesses of the time , namely 400 aspers ; yet , later , in circa 1647 , the three of them as well as their niece , Murads daughter Kaya Sultan , were subjected , on what was another assault of the protocol on Ibrahims part , to the indignity of subordination to his concubines . He took away their lands and jewels ( presumably to award them to his Hasekis ) , and made them serve Hümaşah Sultan , the concubine he married , by standing at attention like servants while she ate and fetching and holding the soap , basin and pitcher of water with which she washed her hands . Because of what he believed was failure to serve his beloved Hümaşah properly , the Sultan then banished them to Edirne Palace . Some five or six years after Voynuk Ahmed Pasha died in battle , by rifle fire , during the Cretan War ( 1645–69 ) , in 1654 or 1655 , Ayşe was betrothed to rebel Ibşir Mustafa Pasha ( d . 11 May 1655 ) . Thanks to her appeal Mustafa Pasha was given the post of Grand Vizier . She apparently anxiously awaited her intended husbands arrival – which he delayed for months – for she dispatched several emissaries to bring him to the capitol . Her head servant , Mercan Ağa , finally succeeded in the task , and when Ibşir and his troops reached her palace in Üsküdar she treated him and the statesmen that had come to receive him to a great banquet , like a feast of Hatem Tay , according to Evliya Çelebi . Their wedding took place on 28 February 1655 . Their life together was short , ending upon his execution . Death . Ayşe Sultan most probably died in or around 1656–1657 . She was entombed in her father Sultan Ahmed Is mausoleum in Sultan Ahmed Mosque . Charities . In 1618 , Ayşe Sultan had a water dispenser built between what is today Okçubaşı avenue and the tram railway in Istanbul . Depictions in literature & popular culture . - Ayşe Sultan is a character in Güngör Dilmens ( 1930-2012 ) one-woman play I , Anatolia ( Ben , Anadolu ) , featuring Anatolian women from time immemorial to the early twentieth century . - In 2015 Turkish historical fiction TV series , an adolescent Ayşe Sultan is portrayed by Turkish actress Sude Zulal Güner .