Amasya eşrâfından Mehmed Bey bin Yûsuf Paşa bin Sinan Paşa bin el-Hâc Mahmûd Çelebi bin el-Hâc Ali Çelebi bin el-Hâc Sinan Çelebi bin Çakal Kadı Bedreddîn Mahmûd Çelebi mahdûmudur. Züamâdan olup hayli muhârebelerde bulundu. 1091’de bilâ-veled vefât etdi. Ceddi Mahmûd Çelebi vakfının tevliyeti evlâd-ı inâsa...⁶⁰ [559]
Diğer Amasya ümerâsından Baki Paşazâde Ahmed Bey bin Rıdvan Paşa bin Abdulbaki Paşa da züamâdan iken Abaza vak’asında bulunarak Ankara Alaybeyisi ba’dehû Girit harbinde mîr-livâ oldu. Hamit Sancağından ma’zûlen 1091 senesi evâhirinde vefât etdi. Mahdûmu Hasan Bey’dir.
In Modern English
He was the son of Mehmed Bey, one of the notables of Amasya, son of Yûsuf Pasha son of Sinan Pasha son of el-Hâc Mahmûd Çelebi son of el-Hâc Ali Çelebi son of el-Hâc Sinan Çelebi son of Çakal Kadı Bedreddîn Mahmûd Çelebi. He was one of the zeamet holders and took part in quite a few wars. He died childless in 1091 [1680]. The trusteeship of the waqf of his grandfather Mahmûd Çelebi, to the female children... [the sentence is left unfinished in the original text].
Ahmed Bey son of Rıdvan Pasha son of Abdülbâki Pasha of the Baki Paşazâdes, another of the beys of Amasya, while a zeamet holder took part in the Abaza incident; later he became alaybeyi of Ankara, and then mirliva (sanjak governor) in the Cretan war. Dismissed from the sanjak of Hamid, he died at the end of 1091 [1681]. His son is Hasan Bey.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- züamâ: zeamet holders; mounted soldiers holding timars of high revenue
- bilâ-veled: childless
- tevliyet: waqf administratorship
- evlâd-ı inâs: female children
- ümerâ: beys, commanders
- Abaza vak'ası: the rebellion of Abaza Hasan Pasha
- alaybeyi: commander of the timar-holding cavalry in a sanjak
- mîr-livâ: sanjak governor
- ma'zûlen: having been dismissed
- mahdûm: son
The Sentence Left Unfinished
In footnote no. 60 of the text, the editors note that the sentence must have been left incomplete by the author by mistake. From the flow of the text it is understood that it was meant to say to whom the trusteeship of the waqf of Mahmûd Çelebi would pass on Mehmed Bey's dying childless, but since the continuation is unknown, this part remains incomplete. No information on the waqf of Mahmûd Çelebi was found in another source.
The Çakalzâdes and the Baki Paşazâdes
At the head of Mehmed Bey's lineage appears Çakal Kadı Bedreddîn Mahmûd Çelebi; the nickname "Çakalzâde" in the entry title most likely goes back to this ancestor, but no source confirming it was found. No information on this family was found in other sources either. The Ahmed Bey of the second paragraph is of the line of Baki Pasha. Hüsameddin writes that he took part in the Abaza incident. The rebellion of Abaza Hasan Pasha was a major uprising in Anatolia that caused Köprülü Mehmed Pasha to break off his 1658 Transylvanian campaign and return; which side Ahmed Bey took is not clear from the text. The Cretan war began with the Ottoman landing of troops at Chania in 1645 and ended with the surrender of Candia in September 1669. Ahmed Bey's term as mirliva falls in the years of this war.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 174–175. amasya.bel.tr
Academic studies