Gülçiçek Hatun

Gülçiçek Hātūn گلچیچک خاتون
Born	Maria c. 1335 Greece
Died	Bursa, the Ottoman Empire
Resting place	Bursa
Residence	Bursa
Known for	Valide Hatun
Religion	Christianity at birth,converted to Islam after her capture
Spouse(s)	Murad I
Children	Bayezid I Yahşi Bey

Gülçiçek Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: گلچیچک خاتون‎; Greek: Γκιουλτσιτσέκ Χατούν, Gülçiçek meaning Rose blossom) was the first wife of Ottoman Sultan Murad I and Valide Hatun to their son Bayezid I.^[1]

The husband of "Gül-Çiçek Khātûn", Ottoman Sultan Murad I.

The son of "Gül-Çiçek Khātûn", Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I.

Biography

According to a tradition Gülçiçek was the consort of Aclan Bey, one of the princes of Anatolian Muslim principality of Karasids. She was captured when Orhan conquered the principality (c. 1344) and placed in the Ottoman Palace. Some years later, when Orhan's son Murad had reached adulthood, an attempt was made to marry Gülçiçek, but she refused several names suggested to her, until Murad suggested himself. She married Murad I in 1359. There is a support for this story, or part of it at least, in the fact that the endowment deed for a dervish monastery.^[2]

She gave birth to two sons, Bayezid I and Yahşi Bey. In her lifetime she established a religious and charitable foundation which demonstrated her Muslim piety publicly. With its revenues she built a mosque and a tomb in Bursa where she was buried.^[3][4]

See also

• Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman dynasty
• Ottoman family tree
• List of Valide Sultans
• 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, 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).

References

1. "Sultan Yıldırım Beyezid Han". Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Archived from the original on August 13, 2014. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
2. Leslie P. Peirce (1993). "Wives and Concubines: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries". The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-195-08677-5.
3. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State, Heath W. Lowry, State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), p. 153
4. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Stanford Jay Shaw, Cambridge University Press, p. 28