Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 149 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Merzifonludur. Devlet Hâtun Kethüdâsı Sinâneddîn Yûsuf Paşa’nın evlâdından Devlet Hâtun Vakfı Mütevellisi Mehmed Bey bin Şehsuvâr Bey bin İbrâhim Bey bin Mehmed Bey bin Sinâneddîn Yûsuf Paşa mahdûmudur.
Pederinin vefâtında vakf-ı mezkûra mütevelli oldu. Pederi hayatında züamâdan olup hayli muharebelerde bulundu. Şirvân Harbi’nde Amasya Alaybeyi iken mirlivâ olarak birkaç sancağa mutasarrıf ve 1008 senesinde Karayazıcı Abdülhalîm Bey’in tuğyânında vefât etdi. Mahdûmu Osmân Bey’den ahfâdı vardır.
He was a native of Merzifon. He descended from Sinaneddin Yusuf Pasha, steward (kethüda) of Devlet Hatun, and was the son of Mehmed Bey, steward of the Devlet Hatun Waqf, son of Şehsuvar Bey, son of İbrahim Bey, son of Mehmed Bey, son of Sinaneddin Yusuf Pasha.
On his father's death he became steward of the said waqf. While his father was alive he was one of the zeamet holders and had taken part in many wars. In the Shirvan war, while alaybeyi of Amasya, he governed several sanjaks as sanjak governor; he died in 1008 [1599-1600] during the revolt of Karayazıcı Abdülhalim Bey. There are grandchildren from his son Osman Bey.
Ahmed Bey's family held the stewardship of the Devlet Hatun Waqf in Merzifon through the generations. Devlet Hatun was the wife of Yıldırım Bayezid and the mother of Çelebi Sultan Mehmed. For many years she was believed to be the daughter of Germiyanoğlu Süleyman Shah and Mutahhara Hatun, granddaughter of Sultan Veled, but the entries in her waqf deed have shown that she was the daughter of a devshirme recruit named Abdullah, and so had no connection with the Germiyan and Mevlânâ lineages. She died in December 1413-January 1414 and was buried in the open tomb beneath the Green Complex (Yeşil Külliye) in Bursa, popularly also called the "White Tomb" (Ak Türbe). The inscription at the head of the sarcophagus in the tomb calls her "the sultan of the ladies" and "the mother of the great Sultan Mehmed, son of Bayezid Khan."
It is known from archive documents that Devlet Hatun, a charitable woman, had a zaviye built in Merzifon and a mosque in the village of Sazdoğmuş (Saztoğmış) in the nahiye of Geldinlen in Amasya, and assigned waqfs to them. In one document this waqf is called the "Waqf of the Mosque of Devlet Hatun, Mother of Sultan Mehmed, and of the Zaviye of Şeyh Osman." The Devlet Hatun Waqf of which Hüsameddin speaks must be the waqf of these institutions in Merzifon and Amasya. The family's being called "Yusuf Paşazâde" also comes from the name of the founding ancestor, Sinaneddin Yusuf Pasha, Devlet Hatun's kethüda. No information on this kethüda was found outside Hüsameddin's book; he should not be confused with Sinaneddin Fakih Yusuf Pasha, vizier of Orhan Gazi and Murad I, who died in 1364.
According to other entries of Hüsameddin, Zeynel Bey-Yusuf Paşazâde of the same line also became steward of the waqf on his father's death, was seen among the beys in 987 [1579], and had a madrasa called "Zeyneliyye" built in Merzifon and endowed his properties to it. Thus the Yusuf Paşazades appear from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century as a leading family of Merzifon that both administered waqfs and served as sanjak governors.
The revolt of Karayazıcı Abdülhalim, which led to Ahmed Bey's death, is the first great uprising in which the groups called Celalis came together and acted jointly. Abdülhalim, of the Kılıçlı tribe of the Urfa region, rose in revolt in the years when the Ottoman-Austrian wars were disrupting order in Anatolia, and gathered around him some 20,000 sekbans, mostly made up of army deserters. Among the Celali chiefs with him was Deli Zülfikar of Amasya. The government charged Sinan Paşazâde Mehmed Pasha with suppressing the revolt, and Mehmed Pasha set out from Üsküdar in Muharram 1008 (August 1599). The Celalis took the fortress of Urfa in the autumn of the same year; there Karayazıcı proclaimed himself "Halim Shah" and began sending out decrees.
After the siege of Urfa, Karayazıcı was promised the sanjak of Amasya or of Antep, and in return he handed his partner Hüseyin Pasha over to the government. But on leaving Urfa for his sanjak he clashed with the forces of Mehmed Pasha and, defeated in mid-Shawwal 1008 (April-May 1600) at the Cehennem stream near Divriği, withdrew to the mountains of Sivas. According to one study, Karayazıcı was afterwards appointed for a time to the sanjak governorship of Amasya, and then the sanjak of Çorum was given to him. It is understood that Ahmed Bey died in 1008, that is, in this first and most confused phase of the revolt. Hüsameddin does not state in which engagement he died; it is plausible that a bey who had served as alaybeyi of Amasya was among the forces of the province of Rum gathered against the Celalis, but this is a guess. No information on Ahmed Bey was found in other sources.
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