Amasya şehir kethüdâsı iken 1112’de emîrü’l-Hâc Sefer Ağazâde el-Hâc Mehmed Paşa ile Hicâz’a gidip, avdetde urbân eşkiyâsı elinde şehîden vefât eden Hacı Mansur oğlu el-Hâc Abdülkadir Ağa bin Ali Ağa’nın mahdûmudur.
Müşârün-ileyh Hacı Mehmed Paşa’nın dâ’iresinde terbiye görüp vezâretinde hazinedârı 1114’de kethüdâsı, Kıbrıs valiliğinde kapıcıbaşı oldu. 1127’de vefâtı ile Amasya’ya avdet ederek meclis-i a’yân azâsı, 1136 senesi rebiülevvelinde Amasya mütesellimi oldu.
1137 senesi muharreminde harbe me’mûren İran’a gidip harb etdi. 1139’da mecrûhen avdet edib, 1140 senesi evâ’ilinde vefât etdi. Kibâr-ı a’yândan bir hânedân idi. Mahdûmları el-Hâc Abdulkadir Mehmed Ağalardır. Birâderleri de Mehmed, Mustafa Ağalarla vüzerâdan Ali Paşa’dır.
In Modern English
He is the son of Hacı Abdülkadir Ağa, son of Ali Ağa, son of Hacı Mansur, who, while city kethüda of Amasya, went to the Hijaz in 1112 [1700-01] with the pilgrimage emir Sefer Ağazade Hacı Mehmed Pasha and on the return died a martyr at the hands of Bedouin brigands.
He was raised in the household of the said Hacı Mehmed Pasha; during the pasha's vizierate he became his treasurer, in 1114 [1702-03] his kethüda, and, during his governorship of Cyprus, kapıcıbaşı. When the pasha died in 1127 [1715], he returned to Amasya and became a member of the council of notables (âyan), and in Rebiülevvel 1136 [December 1723-January 1724] mütesellim of Amasya.
In Muharrem 1137 [October 1724] he went to Iran to fight, and fought. He returned wounded in 1139 [1726-27] and died at the beginning of 1140 [1727-28]. His was a household among the great of the âyan. His sons are Hacı Abdülkadir and Mehmed Ağas. His brothers are also Mehmed and Mustafa Ağas and the vizier Ali Pasha.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- emîrü'l-hâc: the leader of the pilgrimage caravan
- urbân: Bedouins, desert tribes
- şehîden vefât: to die a martyr
- dâ'ire: the household and retinue of a statesman
- hazinedâr: the person responsible for the treasury where money was kept
- meclis-i a'yân: the council of a city's leading men
- müşârün-ileyh: the said, the aforementioned
- mecrûhen: wounded
- kibâr-ı a'yân: the great among the âyan
- hânedân: household, noble family
The Father Who Did Not Return from the Pilgrimage
In its first sentence the text puts the father forward rather than the son: Abdülkadir Ağa went to the Hijaz and died on the return road at the hands of Bedouin bands. Hüsâmeddin counts this as martyrdom; no other source was found on the details of the incident. The son grows up beside the pasha his father served and does not leave his side until his death, and receives the kapıcıbaşılık together with him.
After becoming mütesellim of Amasya he joined the Iran campaign, returned wounded and died soon after. Since Ahmed Ağa in the previous entry became mütesellim of Amasya in Muharrem 1137, the sequence of the two men's posts agrees with the dates Hüsâmeddin gives: one takes office in 1136 and goes to Iran in 1137, while the other takes over the mütesellimlik in the same month. No information was found in other sources on which vizierate his brother Ali Pasha held.
Bibliography
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 191–191. amasya.bel.tr