Amasyalıdır. Emîr-i Kebîr Şehâbeddîn Şâdî Bey bin İzzeddîn Balaban Bey’in kerîmesidir. Pederi Amasya’da müstevfî (defterdâr) olduğu esnâda doğdu. Amcası bulunan Yazarlızâde Emir Cemâleddîn Fîrûz Bey bin Balaban Bey’in mahdûmu Emir Şerefeddîn Hamza Bey’in zevcesi oldu.
Amasya hükümdarı Hacı Şâdgeldi Paşa’nın zamanında müreffeh bir hayât içinde yaşadı. Vefâtından mukaddem emlâkini peder ve amcalarının türbesi ve civarındaki Dirâğiye medrese ve câmii mesâlihine vakfedip 781 senesinde vefât etdi. Pederi türbesinde medfûndur. Mahdûmları; İdris, Fîrûz Beyler ve birâderleri de; Emrullah, Nasrullah, Mes’ûd Beylerdir. [3]
In Modern English
She is from Amasya. She is the daughter of the Great Emir (Emîr-i Kebîr) Şehâbeddîn Şâdî Bey, son of İzzeddîn Balaban Bey. She was born while her father was serving as müstevfî (chief treasurer) in Amasya. She became the wife of Emir Şerefeddîn Hamza Bey, son of her paternal uncle, Yazarlızâde Emir Cemâleddîn Fîrûz Bey (son of Balaban Bey).
In the time of the ruler of Amasya, Hacı Şâdgeldi Pasha, she lived in prosperity. Before her death she endowed her property to meet the expenses of the tomb of her father and uncles and of the Dirâğiye Madrasa and Mosque nearby, and she died in 781 [1379-80]. She is buried in her father's tomb. Her sons were İdris and Fîrûz Bey, and their brothers were Emrullah, Nasrullah and Mes'ûd Bey.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- Emîr-i Kebîr: great emir, a high-ranking commander or governor
- müstevfî: the finance official who kept the state's accounts of income and expenditure, a treasurer
- kerîme: daughter
- pederi: her father
- mahdûm: son
- zevce: wife
- müreffeh: prosperous, living in plenty
- emlâk: properties
- mesâlih: affairs, needs; here the expenses of the endowment
- medfûn: buried
The Period in Which She Lived
The text ties the life of Ahter Hundî-Şâh Hatun to the rule of Hacı Şâdgeldi Pasha and gives her death as 781. Şâdgeldi Pasha was the second son of Hacı Kutlu Şah. Kutlu Şah appointed him emir of Amasya in 760 [1359], and Şâdgeldi Pasha governed the city for more than twenty years, until 783 [1381]. Hüsameddin describes him as one of the leading emirs in strength and majesty, one of the distinguished among the scholars in prudence and virtue, moderate by nature, learned and just. Şadgeldi Pasha was born and raised in Amasya, studied with the scholars of the city, and had fountains, bridges, mosques and madrasas built. He appointed his schoolmate, the scholar Cemâleddîn Muhammed Aksarayî, first as kadı of Amasya and müderris of the Dârü'l-ilm, and then as chief military judge (kazasker). Aksarayî in turn dedicated two of his works to him.
When the central authority of the Eretna state weakened in Anatolia, the emirate of Amasya became independent and came to cover the regions of Amasya, Tokat and Canik. Şadgeldi Pasha also took the fortress of Osmancık and the areas around Çorum, İskilip and Sinop. Hundî-Şâh Hatun died two years before the death of Şâdgeldi Pasha.
The end of Şâdgeldi Pasha came in a war with Kadı Burhaneddin, who was growing stronger in Sivas. The two armies met at Tokat in Ramadan 783 [1381]. Şâdgeldi's army was defeated because the allied help promised to him did not arrive, and Şâdgeldi Pasha was killed. He was buried in the Halifet Gazi Cemetery in Amasya; his tomb still stands today, and his name and the date of his death are written on it. After his death his son Ahmed Pasha became emir. The dynasty's rule in Amasya ended in 805 [1402-03].
On the Dirâğiye Madrasa
According to the endowment information Hüsameddin gives, the lady endowed her property for "the tomb of her father and uncles and the Dirâğiye madrasa and mosque nearby." In our searches no reliable source was found on the present state of a madrasa or mosque known by this name. Whether there is a link between the "tomb of her father and uncles" mentioned by the lady and the surviving tomb of Şâdgeldi Pasha could not be verified. The information on the Dirâğiye Madrasa should therefore be read as Hüsameddin's record.
Family Ties
The text shows that the lady belonged to a long-established emir family. It states plainly that her father Şehâbeddîn Şâdî Bey was a son of Balaban Bey and that her husband was the son of her own paternal uncle. That Fîrûz Bey, the father of her husband Emir Şerefeddîn Hamza Bey, was called "Yazarlızâde" shows that the family was known in Amasya by that name. The name of one of the lady's sons is the same as that of his father's father, Fîrûz Bey. Şâdgeldi Pasha himself also came from a dynasty with a tradition of emirate; according to research, his paternal grandmother, his uncles and his elder brother also ruled Amasya. The circle in which Hundî-Şâh Hatun grew up was therefore part of the city's ruling class.
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