Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 143 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
[450] Amasyalıdır. Alaca Hamamı demekle meşhûr Çifte Hamam’ın mütevellisi Ömer Çelebi bin Ya’kûb Bey bin Alaca Yahyâ Bey bin Ya’kûb Şah Çelebi bin Şadi Bey bin Burak Bey bin Emîr-i kebir Hacı Kutlu Şah mahdûmudur.
Züamâdan iken Amasya Alaybeyi olup, 940’da eşkıya vak’asında yararlıklar gösterip ümerâdan oldu. Ba’dehû Şehzâde Sultân Mustafa ma’iyyetine me’mûr olup 960 senesi şevvalinde müşarün ileyhin i’dâmını müte’akıb boynu vuruldu. Şecî, gayyûr bir zât idi. Mahdûmu Yahyâ Bey’dir.
He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of Ömer Çelebi, trustee of the Çifte Hamam (Double Bath) known as the "Alaca Hamamı," son of Ya'kûb Bey, son of Alaca Yahyâ Bey, son of Ya'kûb Şah Çelebi, son of Şâdî Bey, son of Burak Bey, son of the great emir Hacı Kutlu Şah.
While a zeamet holder he became alaybeyi of Amasya; by showing merit in the brigand incident of 940 [1533-34] he entered the ranks of the sanjak beys. Then he was assigned to the retinue of Prince Sultan Mustafa, and in Shawwal 960 [October 1553], after the prince's execution, his neck was struck. He was a valiant, zealous man. His son was Yahyâ Bey.
Ahmed Bey's genealogy goes back to the family of Hacı Kutlu Şah, who ruled Amasya in the Eretna period; this family kept the city's waqfs and military offices in its hands for a long time after the passage to Ottoman rule. The entry also mentions a building held by the family: the Çifte Hamam known as the "Alaca Hamamı." Elsewhere in his book Hüsameddin gives additional information on this bath. Basing himself on the waqf deeds of Bâyezîd Pasha, he writes that the double bath now called "Alaca Hamam" was called "Hacı Şâdgeldi Hamamı" in the time of Bâyezîd Pasha, and that the bath took its later name from its passing into the management of Alaca Yahyâ Bey, Şâdî Beyzâde, of the Kutlu Şah dynasty. In another place he records that the bath remained in the possession of Alaca Yahyâ Bey, son of Ya'kûb Şah Çelebi, until 875 [1470-71]. These records agree exactly with the genealogy in the entry: Ahmed Bey is the great-grandson of Alaca Yahyâ Bey, who gave the bath its name, and his father Ömer Çelebi ran the trusteeship of the bath, evidently kept as a family waqf. No information on the present condition of the bath was found in current sources.
Prince Mustafa was strangled on Friday, 27 Shawwal 960 [6 October 1553], at the Aktepe camp near Konya Ereğlisi, in the imperial tent where he had gone to visit his father Süleyman the Magnificent. The prince's master of the stable (mirahur) and some of his men were also killed after him, and his small son Mehmed, who was with him, was strangled. The striking of Ahmed Bey's neck is part of this purge of the prince's close circle. Dâmâd Ahmed Pasha and Şehremini Ahmed Çelebi, whom Hüsameddin lists right after, are also among the men of Amasya killed in Shawwal 960; read together, these three short entries show how grave the consequences of the prince's death were for his retinue in Amasya. No information on Ahmed Bey was found in other sources; the brigand incident of 940 mentioned in the entry could not be verified either.
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