Şivekar Sultan

Şivekar Sultan
Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
(Imperial Consort)
Tenure1646 – 8 August 1648
PredecessorAyşe Sultan
SuccessorEmetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan
BornMaria
Armenia
Died1693 (1694)[1]
Old Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial
Ibrahim I Mausoleum, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
SpouseIbrahim
IssueŞehzade Cihangir
Names
Turkish: Şivekar Sultan
Ottoman Turkish: شوکار سلطان
HouseOttoman (by marriage)
ReligionSunni Islam, previously Orthodox Christian

Şivekar Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: شیوه کار سلطان, romanized: 4; died 1693) was the seventh Haseki of Sultan Ibrahim I (reign 1640 – 1648) of the Ottoman Empire.

Life

She was of Armenian descent.[2] Her real name was Maria, and she was the daughter of a wealthy Armenian merchant.

Şivekar Sultan was morbidly obese. In 1646, Ibrahim appointed his servants to look for the "fattest woman" in Constantinople. Upon this order, they started to search for palace officials and eventually found an Armenian woman in Üsküdar. Maria became his consort and he gave her the name Şivekar, meaning "flirty". She was then given the title of Seventh Haseki. She had a good relation with Cinci Hoca Pasha and later with the Eighth Haseki Hümaşah Sultan.[3]

She was politically active during Ibrahim's last years. Ibrahim soon became mentally ill, and Şivekar helped sooth his tensions. She was among the strongest consorts of Ibrahim in the Ottoman Harem's politics.[4] She gave birth to a son, named Şehzade Cihangir, in 1646, who died in infancy. In addition, all Damascus revenues were donated to Şivekar Sultan.[5]

After Ibrahim's deposition in 1648 she moved to the old palace along with other consorts of Ibrahim, when she died in 1693.[3][6]

According to some source, in 1647 Şivekar was responsible for the death of all the members of Ibrahim's harem. Şivekar spread the gossip that one of the Sultan's concubines had been in an affair with an outsider of the palace. Ibrahim believed her and tortured many members of the harem to say a name, but to no avail. Ibrahim ordered that all two hundred eighty of his low-ranked concubines be put in sacks and thrown in the Bosporus. He only spared his Haseki Sultans. Only one concubine was saved by a passing ship. Kösem Sultan was furious when she knew about the incident, and summoned Şivekar to her rooms where she would have dinner with Kösem. Kösem killed Şivekar by poisoning her and told an inconsolable Ibrahim that Şivekar died of natural causes.[3][6]

However, It seems that this story, whose source is in any case unreliable, actually concerns another woman of the harem Şekerpare Hatun, and it is denied by many historians, who argue that Kösem, if she was really behind the woman's death, may have poisoned her rather for her influence on Ibrahim and the threat to her own power, as she risked raising the son against the mother.[7]

Şivekar Sultan founded some foundations and vakfs in her lifetime.[8][9]

Today, she is buried inside the Ibrahim I Mausoleum at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.[6][8][10]

Issue

By Ibrahim, Şivekar Sultan had a son:[5]

References

  1. ^ Gabriele Mandel (1992). La storia dell'Harem (in Italian). p. 216. Şivekar VII Haseki (? – 1693)
  2. ^ Zuhuri Danışman, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Tarihi, IX, Yeni Matbaa, p. 239
  3. ^ a b c Uluçay 1992, p. 98.
  4. ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 355.
  5. ^ a b Bardakçı 1992, p. 221.
  6. ^ a b c Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 356.
  7. ^ Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kandınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık
  8. ^ a b Uluçay 1992, p. 99.
  9. ^ Uluçay 2007, p. 94.
  10. ^ Uluçay 2007, p. 95.
  11. ^ Muhtesem Yüzyil: Kösem (TV Series 2015–2017) Poster Muhtesem Yüzyil: Kösem (2015–2017), retrieved 8 January 2020

Sources

  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (1992). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kandınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-6-051-71079-2.
  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2007). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken.
  • Bardakçı, Murat (1992). Sex in Ottomans.


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