Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 177 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Merzifonludur. Oranın eşrâfından mîr-i mîrân Şâhbaz Paşa bin Osmân Bey bin Ahmed Bey’in mahdûmudur. Pederinin vefâtında Devlet Hâtun mütevellîsi ve zâ’im olup Kara Mustafa Paşa’nın sâye-i ikbâlinde 1092 senesi rebîülahirinde Amasya Sancağı Beyi oldu.
1094’de harbe me’mûren ma’iyet-i mevcûdesiyle Rumeline gidip sene-i mezbûre zilhiccesinde Viyana harbinden mecrûhen ve Devlet Hâtun vakfını tevliyetiyle müteka’id oldu.
He was from Merzifon. He was the son of the mîr-i mîrân (beylerbeyi) Şâhbaz Pasha son of Osmân Bey son of Ahmed Bey, one of the notables of that place. On his father's death he became trustee of the Devlet Hatun waqf and a zeamet holder, and under the patronage of Kara Mustafa Pasha he became Sanjak Bey of Amasya in Rebîülâhir 1092 [April-May 1681].
In 1094 [1683] he was assigned to war and went to Rumelia with the troops under his command; in Zilhicce of the same year he returned wounded from the battle of Vienna and retired with the trusteeship of the Devlet Hatun waqf.
The Devlet Hatun waqf in the text is most likely the Devlet Hatun waqf in Merzifon. Devlet Hatun, regarded as the mother of Çelebi Sultan Mehmed, died around 1413. According to an account relying on Uzunçarşılı, Çelebi Mehmed, on his mother's will, had a zaviye consisting of a sofa and two rooms built beside his own madrasa in Merzifon and in his waqf deed of 1422 had his mother's name written as "Devlet Hatun binti Abdillah." Hüsameddin writes that at the end of the 17th century the waqf was still under the trusteeship of a Merzifon family. No other source was found confirming this chain of trustees of the waqf; that the waqf in the text is the zaviye waqf in Merzifon is also not certain, it is an inference.
Kara Mustafa Pasha was born, the son of a sipahi of Merzifon, in the village of Marınca (today Karamustafapaşa) in Merzifon and was raised under the patronage of Köprülü Mehmed Pasha. Hüsameddin says that Şâhbaz Pasha became sanjak bey under the patronage of Kara Mustafa Pasha; no source was found showing how this patronage was established. No information on Şâhbaz Pasha's sanjak governorship of Amasya was found in other sources. The Vienna war is the failed siege that led to the execution of Kara Mustafa Pasha in 1683; Şâhbaz Pasha, who went to Rumelia, also took part in this siege and was wounded; this detail belongs to Hüsameddin.
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