Amasyalıdır. Eşrafdan Taşçı el-Hâc Mehmed Çelebioğludur. Genç iken sipâhî olup muhârebelerde yararlıklar gösterdi. Mükerreren Amasya kethüdâyeri, Hacı Beyzâde Mehmed Paşa kethüdâsı, Sivas ve Amasya mütesellimi oldu. Eşkiyâ harbinde 1017’de vefât etdi. Sipâhî meşâhîrinden hânedân bir kimse idi. Oğulları Mehmed, Abdullatîf Ağalardan sülâlesi yakın vakitlere kadar devâm etdi. Emîrtaş oğulları da bu sülâledendir.
Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Ebûbekir Ağa — Taşçızâde
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 87 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
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In Modern English
He was a native of Amasya and the son of Taşçı el-Hâc Mehmed Çelebi, one of the town's notables. As a young man he became a sipahi and distinguished himself in battle. He served several times as kethüdâyeri of Amasya, as kethüda to Hacı Beyzâde Mehmed Pasha, and as mütesellim of Sivas and Amasya. He died in 1017 [1608] in the war against the brigands. He was one of the well-known sipahis and belonged to a long-established family. His line, descending from his sons Mehmed Ağa and Abdullatîf Ağa, continued until recent times. The Emîrtaş-oğulları are also of this lineage.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- eşraf: the notables of a town, noble families
- sipâhî: a mounted soldier supported by a timar or by a salary
- mükerreren: several times, repeatedly
- kethüdâyeri: the official who managed the affairs of the timar-holding sipahis in a sanjak and represented them
- kethüdâ: the steward of a pasha, who ran his affairs on his behalf
- mütesellim: the deputy who governed a sanjak on behalf of the sanjak governor or governor when he was absent
- eşkıyâ harbi: here, the wars fought against the Celâlî rebels
- hânedân: a long-established, respected family
- sülâle: lineage
The War Against the Brigands in 1017
The year 1017 [1608], in which Ebûbekir Ağa died, was the year in which the Celâlî rebellions that had shaken Anatolia for years were suppressed most bloodily. Grand Vizier Kuyucu Murad Pasha first routed Canbolatoğlu Ali Pasha at Aleppo, and then inflicted a heavy defeat on Kalenderoğlu Mehmed near Göksun on 26 Rebîülâhir 1017 [9 August 1608]. Among the Celâlîs who fled the battle were Tavîl Halil, who had been influential around Amasya, and his brother Meymun; Murad Pasha pursued them with the janissaries for six days and six nights and destroyed most of them at Kara Hasan Derbendi in the sanjak of Karahisar-ı Şarkî.
Hüsameddin describes the events at Amasya in the same year in detail in the fourth volume of his book. When Kuyucu Murad Pasha passed through Amasya, he rewarded the notables of Amasya whose service in the war against the brigands had been noted, and Çakalzâde Mehmed Pasha, because of his sacrifice in the "War Against the Brigands," became the guardian of the sanjak of Amasya on 20 Receb 1017. In Zilhicce of the same year, while Mehmed Pasha was dispersing the brigands who had sprung up in the nahiye of Hüseyinâbâd in Çorum, the alaybeyi at his side, Yâkût Bey, was also shot dead. Hüsameddin does not state in which engagement Ebûbekir Ağa died; but his death falls in a year when the sipahis of Amasya fought with all their might in these pursuits.
The Taşçızâdes
Other entries by Hüsameddin show that this family remained among the leading sipahi and notable families of Amasya throughout the seventeenth century. Taşçızâde el-Hâc İsmâil Ağa, of the notables of the Receb quarter, is introduced as the son of el-Hâc Mehmed Ağa bin Ebûbekir Ağa; he was three times city kethüda and in 1069 [1658-59] voyvoda of Tokat. This record indicates that the Mehmed Ağa named in the entry carried on the line. The most senior member of the family, however, is Taşçızâde Ebûbekir Pasha, who in the era of the Köprülüs became kethüdâ-yı sadr-ı âlî and vizier. Hacı Beyzâde Mehmed Pasha, whose kethüda Ebûbekir Ağa was, also came from an old family of Amasya; according to Hüsameddin, one of this pasha's freedmen was Rus Hamza Bey, who later became kethüda of Amasya. According to Hüsameddin, the Emîrtaş-oğulları are likewise descended from Alemdâr es-Seyyid Mehmed Ağa, one of the janissaries of Amasya.
No information about Ebûbekir Ağa was found in other sources.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 87. amasya.bel.tr
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, vol. 4, entries "Mehmed Paşa" (Çakalzâde) and "Mahmûd Bey"; vol. 6, "Ebûbekir Paşa-Taşcızâde"; vol. 7, "İsmâil Ağa-Taşçızâde el-Hâc" and "Emîrtâş Mehmed Ağa-Taşçıoğlu"; vol. 9, "Hamza Bey-Rus" entries.
Academic studies
- Ömer İşbilir, "Kuyucu Murad Paşa", TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/kuyucu-murad-pasa).
- Mücteba İlgürel, "Kalenderoğlu Mehmed", TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/kalenderoglu-mehmed).