Amasyalıdır. Hızır Paşa’nın utekâsından Keyvan Bey’in ahfâdından olup Şehzâde Sultân Mustafa’nın Amasya Valiliğinde Gonca Bey demekle meşhûr olan Keyvan Bey bin Mustafa Bey bin Uzun Rüstem Bey bin Keyvan Beyzâde Hüsrev Bey’in mahdûmudur. Amcaları Hızır Paşa ve Rüstem Bey’dir.
Beşinci bölükte mukayyed sipâhi olup amcası Hızır Paşa yanında vekîl-i harcı olarak iştihâr etdi. Amcasının vefâtında Amasya’ya gelip 1024’de kethüdâyeri ve Amasya mütesellimi [495] kâ’im-makâmı oldu. Bu nüfuzundan istifade ederek Hızır ve Mehmed Paşaların evkâfı tevliyetine kondu.
Kethüdâlıktan azlini müte’âkip Seydî Beyzâde Mustafa Bey bin Ahmed Bey, mahkemeye müraca’atla kendisinin Mehmed Paşa evlâd-ı inâsından olduğunu isbat etdikten tevliyet de uhdesinden refedildi. Tımarıyla iştigal etdi.
Ba’dehû İran ve Bağdâd muhârebâtına iştirak ederek Hüsrev Paşa’nın sadaretinde müşârün-ileyhe kendisini bildirip 1038’de mirlivâ oldu. Çünkü Hüsrev Paşa, amcası Hızır Paşa’nın dâmâdı idi. Sadr-ı müşârün-ileyhin azlinde menkûb ve 1042 senesi evâilinde merhûm oldu. Mahdûmu Murâd Bey’dir.
In Modern English
He was a native of Amasya. He descended from Keyvan Bey, one of the freedmen of Hızır Pasha, and was the son of Keyvanzâde Hüsrev Bey, son of Uzun Rüstem Bey, son of Mustafa Bey, son of Keyvan Bey, who was famous as Gonca Bey during the governorship of Prince Sultan Mustafa in Amasya. His uncles were Hızır Pasha and Rüstem Bey.
A sipahi registered in the fifth company, he became known at the side of his uncle Hızır Pasha as vekilharç (steward of expenditures). On his uncle's death he came to Amasya and in 1024 [1615] became kethüdâyeri and deputy of the mütesellim of Amasya. Using this influence, he was appointed trustee of the waqfs of Hızır Pasha and Mehmed Pasha.
After his dismissal from the kethüda post, Mustafa Bey son of Ahmed Bey, of the Seydî Beyzâde family, applied to the court and proved that he was a descendant of Mehmed Pasha through the female line, and the trusteeship too was taken out of his hands. After that he busied himself with his timar.
Then he took part in the wars of Iran and Baghdad, made himself known during the grand vizierate of Hüsrev Pasha, and in 1038 [1628-29] became mirliva. This was because Hüsrev Pasha was the son-in-law of his uncle Hızır Pasha. When the grand vizier was dismissed, he was exiled, and he died early in 1042. His son is Murâd Bey.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- utekâ: freed slaves, freedmen
- ahfâd: grandchildren, descendants
- mukayyed sipâhi: registered sipahi, a sipahi of the Porte's household cavalry
- vekîl-i harc: official who manages the expenditures of a great man
- kethüdâyeri: the sipahi kethüda of a sanjak, that is, an official at the level of deputy governor in local administration
- mütesellim: one who takes over the administration of a place as a deputy
- kâ'im-makâm: deputy
- evkâf, tevliyet: waqfs, waqf trusteeship
- evlâd-ı inâs: those descended through daughters
- refedilmek: to be removed, to be taken out of one's hands
- menkûb: fallen from favor, sent into exile
The Same Family, Another Hızır Pasha
The Hızır Pasha named in the text must be distinguished from the buildings he endowed. The Hızır Pasha Madrasa in Amasya was built in 1465, together with a mosque, by Hayreddin Hızır Pasha, the brother of Yörgüç Pasha. Hızır Pasha's son Mehmed Pasha also had many buildings erected around Amasya in the reign of Bayezid II, and research has been done on the architecture of these buildings (Keskin, 2016). The "waqfs of Hızır and Mehmed Pashas" in the text are these fifteenth-century waqfs. The seventeenth-century Hızır Pasha who was Gonca Beyzâde's uncle, on the other hand, is a separate person bearing the same name. In Hüsameddin's later volumes there are separate entries titled "Hızır Paşa-Gonca Beyzâde" and "Hüsrev Bey-Gonca Beyzâde."
How the waqf trusteeship changed hands is noteworthy. Under the waqf deed, trusteeship belonged to the descendants of the founder. When Seydî Beyzâde Mustafa Bey proved in court that he was a grandson of Mehmed Pasha through the female line, Gonca Beyzâde, who had gained control of the waqf administration thanks to his kethüda office, was removed from the task. The text shows that the influence provided by an office could extend to waqf property, and that proof of descent before the kadı was a way to counter this.
The Records of 1615 and Hüsrev Pasha
A study examining the Amasya sharia court registers together with Hüsameddin records that in Muharram 1024 (January-March 1615), when the mütesellim of Amasya, Abdülfettâh Ağa, went to Istanbul, Gonçe Beyzâde Ahmed Bey became the mütesellim's deputy (Açık, 2016). This record confirms the date 1024 and the post of deputy mütesellim in the text. It also shows that the person whose name is not written in the text was Ahmed Bey; the entry's title says so as well.
According to Halil İnalcık's TDV entry, Hüsrev Pasha was a Bosnian, trained in the Enderun, and served as silahdar. In June 1628, marching against Abaza Mehmed Pasha, he reached Tokat; in 1630 he besieged Baghdad, and when the siege came to nothing his influence was shaken. The statement in the entry, "in 1038 he became mirliva," coincides with the start of these campaigns. The same TDV entry states that Hüsrev Pasha's father was a Hızır Pasha whose identity cannot be fully established. Hüsameddin, however, mentions him as the son-in-law of Hızır Pasha of Amasya. The two pieces of information do not exclude each other: the father Hızır Pasha and the father-in-law Hızır Pasha may not be the same person but two different people with the same name. No source was found that would settle this.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 156–157. amasya.bel.tr
Academic studies
- Halil İnalcık, "Hüsrev Paşa", TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi. https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/husrev-pasa
- Turan Açık, "Kara Mehmed Ağa'nın Ardından: 17. Yüzyılın İlk Yarısında Amasya'da Bir Kapıkulu Sipahisinin Düşündürdükleri", Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi, 11/1, 2016, p. 1-46.
Books
- M. Ç. Keskin, "A Local Patron in Amasya Region during Bayezid II's Reign: Mehmed Pasha the Son of Hızır Pasha", Art-Sanat, 5, 2016, p. 63-82.