Fatma Sultan (daughter of Mustafa I)

## Fatma Sultan

**Fatma Sultan** (Ottoman Turkish: فاطمہ سلطان, "*One who abstains*"; born around 1564 - 1620) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Mustafa I (reign 1574–1595) and Şansa Hatun.

## Early life

Presumably she was the eldest daughter of Mustafa, this is given that her mother was Şansa Hatun who became Mustafa's concubine in early 1563 or 1564.

The date of Fatma is unknown but sources testify that Mustafa's first daughter was born soon after he became governor of Manisa, therefore probably around 1564. The fact that Fatma and her children were buried alongside Mustafa suggests that Mustafa wished his daughter and grandchildren to be buried with him in his mausoleum.

## Marriages

### First marriege

Fatma was married on 6 December 1593 to Damat Halil Pasha, a distinguished pasha allied with Handan Sultan, her grandmother. Halil was the governor of Ottoman Egypt. He was known for his "gentle, impartial, and prosperous administration". Fatma had to move to Egypt where she lived until the pasha's death in 1602.

They have two sons, the first died in infancy and was buried in the Halil Pasha Tomb.

### Second marriege

After the death of her father in 1603, she rest in Topkapi palace with her mother, new valide Sultan and her brothers and sisters.

Later Hirihmene and his brother Iskender married her secondly on December 1604 to Damat Cafer Pasha, as Mustafa I had wanted before he died. She could not stand the pasha and it was so until the end of their marriage in 1608 when Fatma divorced him.

### Thirtly marriege and fourtly marriege

She married thirtly on 1610 to Damat Hizir Pasha, this time Fatma was free to marry whoever she wanted as Hirihmene didn't take care of marrying the other daughters of Mustafa I. Fatma and Hizir Pasha had a good relationship. They had 3 or 4 sons together of which only one we know the name, Sultanzade Hasan Agha.

The pasha died in 1616 or 1617 and then she married Damat Mahmud Pasha The exact date of the marriage is not known and it is not known whether they had any children. Fatma predeceased her husband in 1620.

## Issue

She and Damat Halil Pasha have two sons:

* Sultanzade (Fülan). Buried in the Halil Pasha Tomb
* Sultanzade Mehmed Agha (died around 1637). Buried in the Halil Pasha Tomb. He served the army under Iskender I, his uncle, then Ibrahim I his other uncle who boarded the train after Iskender's execution. Under the command of his uncle Selim II he took part in the Transylvania campaign (1620) and later in Poland. Mehmed became pasha and married Ismihan Hatun (or Kadin) and they had 3 children, later he married another woman with whom he had 5 children. He died around 1637.

She and Damat Hizir Pasha have three or four sons:

* Sultanzade Hasan Pasha. Buried in Sultan Mustafa I's mausoleum. He served the army under Osman II, he killed 27 prostitutes of a brothel by burning. The reasons are confused but the most certain is that he set fire to the brothel to kill one or more prostitutes he impregnated, he was exiled from Istanbul after this.
* three or two other sons buried in Sultan Mustafa I's mausoleum.

## Burial

She was entombed in her father Sultan Mustafa I's mausoleum.

## In popular culture

In the Turksih serie "Mühteşem yüzyil: Hirihmene" Fatma is played by the turkish actress and model, Mërşah Mustançi