Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Bayezid II)

Ayşe Sultan (c. 1465 - c. 1515) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Bayezid II and his wife Nigar Hatun.

Biography

In 1480 at Amasya Ayşe Sultan married Damat Guveyi Sinan Pasha, whom she followed during his career in Anatolia and Rumeli. The son-in-law received from the sultan villages in nahiye Üsküdar as a mülk. Consequently, Sinan Pasha donated them to the mosque and kervansaray he constructed. The pasha established also a waqf at a zaviye in Gelibolu to which he bequeathed mülk villages purchased from his wife. Three daughters came of this marriage, Ayşe Hanımsultan, Gevherşah Hanımsultan and Kamerşah Hanımsultan. On 12 January 1504 she was widowed and returned to the capital, and Sultan Selim I, her brother, granted her an allowance. In her lifetime she built a mosque in Edirne, a mescid and a school in Gelibolu to which she bequeathed her property. She died at Istanbul in 1515.

References

• Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-508677-5 (paperback).
• Yavuz Bahadıroğlu, Resimli Osmanlı Tarihi, Nesil Yayınları (Ottoman History with Illustrations, Nesil Publications), 15th Ed., 2009, ISBN 978-975-269-299-2 (Hardcover).