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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · İKİNCİ FASIL

Bâyezîd Ağa (Koca Sipahi)

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 404 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Yörgüç Paşa’nın adamlarından olup sipâhî, Amasya kethüdâyeri ba’dehû Yörgüç Paşa’nın kethüdâsı oldu. Müşârün-ileyhin irtihâlinde Sultân Mehmed Hân-ı Sânî’ye intisâb edib 855’de kapıcıbaşı oldu. 861 sâlinden sonra vefât etdi. Sarây-ı hümâyûn erkânından idi. [471]

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In Modern English

He was one of the men of Yörgüç Pasha. He was a sipahi; he became kethüdâyeri in Amasya and then kethüda of Yörgüç Pasha. When the Pasha died he attached himself to Sultan Mehmed II and became kapıcıbaşı in 855 [1451-52]. He died after the year 861 [1456-57]. He was one of the leading figures of the imperial palace.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • sipâhî: mounted soldier; cavalryman supported by timar revenue
  • kethüdâyeri: an official standing in for the kethüda, a deputy steward (exact meaning uncertain)
  • kethüdâ: a steward who managed the affairs of a pasha or notable
  • müşârün-ileyh: the person mentioned
  • irtihâl: death
  • intisâb etmek: to attach oneself to, to enter the service of
  • kapıcıbaşı: head of the palace gatekeepers
  • Sarây-ı hümâyûn erkânı: the leading figures of the sultan's palace

Yörgüç Pasha

The Yörgüç Pasha named in the text is Atabeg Yörgüç Pasha, who built the mosque on the bank of the Yeşilırmak in Amasya. According to the inscription over the mosque door it was built in 834 (1430); some sources give 1428. According to the Amasya Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism, Yörgüç Pasha served as tutor (lala) to Prince Murad, whom Çelebi Mehmed had appointed governor in his place after Yörgüç Pasha's own governorship of Amasya, and settled in Amasya. The section east of the entrance iwan is laid out as a tomb and holds four marble sarcophagi belonging to Yörgüç Pasha and his family. Because floods of the Yeşilırmak damaged the building, the interior of the mosque has been entirely renewed.

Koca Sipahi

No record of Bâyezîd Ağa, the subject of this entry, was found outside the text. That he was kethüda of Yörgüç Pasha, that he became kapıcıbaşı in 855 and his year of death could not be verified. Since the Pasha was Prince Murad's tutor, it is understandable that after his death his man passed into the service of the son, Sultan Mehmed II; this is an inference, and no source read says so. No information on Bâyezîd Ağa was found in other sources.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 404–404. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

Official sources

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