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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ahmed Bey-Yörgüç Paşazâde es-Seyyid el-Hâc

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 198 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya eşrâfından Yörgüç Paşa vakfı mütevellîsi el-Hâc Ömer [636] Bey bin Mustafa Bey bin Ali Bey’in mahdûmudur. Pederi Hacı Ömer Bey’in 1141’de vefâtı üzerine ammizâdeleri el-Hâc Mustafa Bey bin Osmân Bey bin ve Mehmed Bey bin Mehmed Beylerle müştereken ceddi Yörgüç Paşa ve Mustafa Bey vakıflarına mütevellî oldu. Ba’dehû hâciyân ve a’yân meclislerine azâ ve bir defa da Hacıbaşı olup 1162 sâlinden sonra vefât etdi. Mahdûmu es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ömer Bey de meşâhîr-i a’yândan olup hânedân idi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was of the notables of Amasya, the son of el-Hâc Ömer Bey, mütevelli of the Yörgüç Pasha Waqf, who was the son of Mustafa Bey, who was the son of Ali Bey. On the death of his father Hacı Ömer Bey in 1141 [1728-29], he became, together with his paternal cousins el-Hâc Mustafa Bey and Mehmed Bey, mütevelli of the waqfs of his grandfather Yörgüç Pasha and of Mustafa Bey. Later he became a member of the councils of pilgrims and of the ayan, once he was hacıbaşı, and he died after the year 1162 [1749]. His son es-Seyyid el-Hâc Ömer Bey is also among the leading ayan and has a noble family.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • eşrâf: leading men, nobles
  • mütevellî: person who runs a waqf
  • ammizâde: paternal cousin
  • müştereken: jointly
  • ced: grandfather
  • hâciyân ve a'yân meclisleri: the advisory bodies formed in Amasya by the pilgrims and by the ayan
  • hânedân: noble family

The Yörgüç Pasha Waqf

The waqf named in the text as having a mütevelli concerns the Yörgüç Pasha Mosque in Amasya and the buildings around it. According to its inscription, the mosque was built by Atabeg Yörgüç Pasha in 834 [1430]. The building belongs to the group of mosques with a zaviye and tabhane; a madrasa that has not survived is thought to have existed, and on one side there is the founder's mausoleum. It stands out for its stonework and its arches of colored stone.

Hüsameddin ties Ahmed Bey's family to Yörgüç Pasha by calling him "ced" (grandfather); that is, he is saying that this family descends from the founder of the waqf. That on Hacı Ömer Bey's death (1141) he took up the post jointly with his paternal cousins Mustafa and Mehmed Beys shows that the mütevelliship was run in common within the family. The text does not state through which generations the kinship between Yörgüç Pasha and the family passed, nor where Mustafa Bey's waqf was. No information on Ahmed Bey or on his son Ömer Bey was found in other sources.

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