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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ahmed Pasha — Devâtdâr Paşazâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 121 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya beylerbeyi Devâtdâr Ahmed Paşazâde Hacı Mustafa Bey’in mahdûmu ve Yörgüç Paşa’nın halîlesi Safiye Hâtun’un birâderidir. Yörgüç Paşa’nın kayınbirâderi olduğu münâsebetle müşarün ileyhin Amasya vâliliğinde merkez muhâfızı, ba’dehû kibâr-ı ümerâdan olup Sultân Murâd-ı Sânî’nin ikinci cülûsunda Ankara beylerbeyi oldu.

Çünkü Varna harbinde fedâkârâne çalışıp pâdişâhın teveccühünü kazanmışdı. Ba’dehû İstanbul fethinde de yararlık gösterdi. Takriben 865 sâline doğru vefât etdi. Mahdûmları Hamza, Kâsım Beylerdir.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was the son of Hacı Mustafa Bey, son of Devâtdâr Ahmed Pasha, beylerbeyi of Amasya, and the brother of Safiye Hatun, wife of Yörgüç Pasha. Since he was Yörgüç Pasha's brother-in-law, during the pasha's governorship of Amasya he became garrison commander of the centre; then, as one of the great beys, he became beylerbeyi of Ankara at Sultan Murad II's second accession to the throne.

The reason for his appointment to this office was that he had worked without sparing his life at the Battle of Varna and had won the sultan's favour. Later he also showed merit at the conquest of Istanbul. He died around 865 [1460-61]. His sons are Hamza and Kâsım Beys.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • devâtdâr: divitdar; originally "holder of the inkwell (divit)", a close official in charge of the writing affairs of a ruler or bey; here it has become the family's epithet
  • halîle: spouse, wife
  • kayınbirâder: wife's brother
  • müşârün-ileyh: the person in question
  • merkez muhâfızı: the bey responsible for defending the centre of a province (here Amasya)
  • kibâr-ı ümerâ: the great beys
  • cülûs: accession to the throne
  • fedâkârâne: with devotion, without sparing one's life
  • teveccüh: trust, favour

The Grandchildren of Şâdgeldi Pasha

Ahmed Pasha's grandfather Devâtdâr Ahmed Pasha was the son of Hacı Şâdgeldi Pasha, one of the pre-Ottoman rulers of Amasya; in other articles Hüsameddin calls him "Devâtdâr Ahmed Pasha bin Hacı Şâdgeldi Pasha, governor of Amasya". Amasya had passed into the hands of Emîr Hacı Şâdgeldi, who defeated Eretnaoğlu Ali Bey, and then became the scene of the quarrels between him and Kadı Burhâneddin, ruler of Sivas. After Şâdgeldi's death his son Ahmed, with Yıldırım Bayezid's support, defended the city against Kadı Burhâneddin; Amasya was joined to Ottoman lands in 1398. In the sources this son of Şâdgeldi appears only as "Ahmed"; it is very probable that he is Hüsameddin's "Devâtdâr Ahmed Pasha".

The family remained among the leading men of Amasya in the Ottoman period too. Ehl-i Hatun, daughter of Devâtdâr Ahmed Pasha, in 1467 built a tekke at the head of the Meydan Bridge, in the quarter formerly named Sâbıkuddin and today Kurşunlu, and arranged its endowments. This place, visited as the "Wishing Well", is known as the Meydan Tekke or the Ehl-i Hatun Tekke and was a tekke in which Halvetî sheikhs served. Hüsameddin also speaks of Burak Bey, son of Devâtdâr Ahmed Pasha, and of his wife İhsan Paşa Hatun. Thus Burak Bey is the paternal uncle, and Ehl-i Hatun the paternal aunt, of Ahmed Pasha in the article.

Yörgüç Pasha's Wife: Safiye or Şâh Bulâ?

According to the article, Ahmed Pasha's sister Safiye Hatun is the wife of Yörgüç Pasha, beylerbeyi of Rum. The study on the Atabeyzâdes, based on the inscriptions Halil Edhem published in 1911, also records that Yörgüç Pasha's first wife was Safiye Hatun and that the pasha's son Mustafa Bey was born of her. The bath that Mustafa Bey built has a waqf deed of 840 [1436-37], and the bath stands today in the Pirinççi Quarter, on the bank of the Yeşilırmak, at the corner where Mehmet Paşa Street and Habibi Street meet.

However, in the eleventh volume of his work Hüsameddin names as Yörgüç Pasha's wife Emine Şâh Bulâ Hatun, "daughter of Mustafa Bey bin Devâtdâr Ahmed Pasha bin Hacı Şâdgeldi Pasha"; he writes that she has a waqf deed of 871 and a school and endowments in the Şamice Quarter of Amasya. Thus Hüsameddin gives the woman who was Mustafa Bey's daughter and Yörgüç Pasha's wife the name "Safiye" in this article and "Şâh Bulâ" in the other. It is known that Yörgüç Pasha made more than one marriage (Çiçek Hatun, who has a waqf in Edirne, also appears in the records as his wife); so it is possible that the two women were two sisters, and also that the same person was called by two different names. The sources at hand are not enough to settle this question with certainty.

Varna and Murad's Second Reign

In 1444 Murad II had left the throne to his son Mehmed II, but was obliged to return to the head of the army when the Crusader army moved. The Battle of Varna ended in an Ottoman victory on 28 Rajab 848 [10 November 1444]; Murad ascended the throne again in 1446 and reigned until 1451. This is what Hüsameddin calls the "second accession", and his tying Ahmed Pasha's rise to his service at Varna agrees with the chronological order. No information about Ahmed Pasha's garrison command, his beylerbeyiship, or his sons Hamza and Kâsım Beys was found in sources other than Hüsameddin.

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