Amasyalıdır. Eratna Beyzâde Yûsuf Bey bin Mehmed Bey bin Ali Bey bin Mehmed Bey bin Sultân Eratnâ’nın kerîmesi olup 838’de Amasya Vâlisi olan Şehzâde Sultân Ahmed bin Sultân Murâd-ı Sânî zevcesidir. 841’de zevci vefât etdiğinden çok sonra vefât etmişdir. Şehzâdeler Türbesi civârında medfûndur.
Emine Hânım, Paşazâde Can Mirza Paşa’nın kızı ve Mustafa Efendi’nin halîlesidir. Amasya’da Fethiye Câmi-i şerîfi mesâlihine nemâsı sarf edilmek üzere hayli nukûd vakıf ve 1058’de tescîl ederek 1069 sâlinden sonra vefât etmişdir. Sâhibe-i hayır ve hesenât idi.
In Modern English
She is from Amasya. She was the daughter of Eratna Beyzâde Yûsuf Bey; Yûsuf Bey was the son of Mehmed Bey, Mehmed Bey the son of Ali Bey, Ali Bey the son of Mehmed Bey, and he the son of Sultan Eratna. She was the wife of Şehzade Sultan Ahmed, son of Sultan Murad II, who became governor of Amasya in 838 [1434-35]. She died long after her husband, who died in 841 [1437-38]. She is buried in the vicinity of the Şehzadeler Türbesi (Tomb of the Princes).
Emine Hanım was the daughter of Paşazâde Can Mirza Pasha and the wife of Mustafa Efendi. She endowed a considerable sum of money, its income to be spent on the needs of the Fethiye Mosque in Amasya, registered this in 1058 [1648], and died after 1069 [1658-59]. She was a woman of charity and good works.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- kerîme: daughter
- vâlî: governor, here the prince at the head of the sanjak of Amasya
- zevce: wife
- medfûn: buried
- halîle: wife
- mesâlih: affairs, expenses
- nemâ: growth, here income and profit
- nukûd: cash
- tescîl: registration
- sâhibe-i hayır ve hesenât: a woman of charity and good deeds
Prince Ahmed's Governorship of Amasya
Şehzade Ahmed (Büyük Ahmed), the eldest son of Murad II, was born in Amasya in 1420. After Yörgüç Pasha was sent to the guardianship of Edirne in 1435, he became sanjak governor of Amasya; after about three years in this post he died in Amasya in 1438. This agrees with the dates 838 [1434-35] and 841 [1437-38] given by Hüsameddin. Another source writes that Ahmed lived from 1419 to 1437 and was buried in the tomb of Murad II in the Muradiye complex in Bursa; the difference in years is a matter of one year. What Hüsameddin describes as "buried near the Şehzadeler Türbesi" is Ahmed's wife, and does not conflict with Ahmed's own grave.
The Eratna Line
Before Hacı Şadgeldi, Amasya remained under the rule of Eretna, who ruled in Sivas, and of the beys who succeeded him. Şadgeldi took the city by defeating Ali Bey, son of Eretna. The name Ali Bey occurs in the genealogy Hüsameddin gives; it may be assumed that this Ali Bey is the same as the Ali Bey, son of Eretna, who lost to Şadgeldi, but this has not been verified from another source (inference). No information was found in other sources on Yûsuf Bey and his daughter.
The Fethiye Mosque
The Fethiye Mosque in Amasya was converted from a Byzantine church. The church is believed to have been built in the 7th century on the orders of Helena, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Phocas; in the Dânişmend period it was turned into a mosque by Fetih Gazi, governor of Amasya, and took the name Fethiye Mosque. The building wore down considerably over time; it was repaired and reopened for worship in 1956, and last restored in 2006 by the General Directorate of Foundations. No information was found in other sources on Emine Hanım's waqf of 1058 [1648] or on Can Mirza Pasha.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 367–367. amasya.bel.tr
Academic studies
- Selim Özcan, "Amasya'da Sancak Beyliği Yapan Şehzadeler Döneminde Amasya Şehri", Amasya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, no. 5.
- İlhan Şahin – Feridun Emecen, "Amasya", TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 1991. https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/amasya
Official sources
Other sources