AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Emîneddîn Mehmed Paşa-Devâtdârzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 356–357 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Mustafa Bey bin Devâtdâr Ahmed Paşa bin Hacı Şâdgeldi Paşa bin Hacı Kutlu Şâh mahdûmu Büyük [305] Çeribâşı Emîneddîn Mehmed Çelebi kerîmezâdesidir. Hemşîrelerinden Emîne Hâtun Sultân, Sultân Murâd-ı Sânînin halîlesi ve Safiye Hâtun da Yörgüç Paşa’nın halîlesidir.

Züamâdan iken Sultân Murâd-ı Sânînin kayın birâderi oldukda ümerâdan ba’dehû beylerbeyi olarak Sivas ve Tokat muhâfızı olup muhârebâta iştirâk etdi. 847’de Varna harbinden sonra Ankara Beylerbeyi olup 855’de vefât etdi.

Yörgüç Paşa’ya “eniştem” diye yazdığı mektupları görüldü. Kezâlik, Yörgüç Paşa’nın da buna yazdığı mektublarda “Emîrü’l-ümerâi’l-izâm, birâderim Emînüddîn Mehmed Paşa” diye hitâb ederdi. Mahdûmları Mustafa, Murtaza Beyler ve birâderi Himmet Bey’dir. Kerîmeleri Lütufşâh, Sitti hâtunlar olup bunlar ile bir türbede medfûndur. Geldiklân nâhiyesinde Kozluca karyesi, emîr-i müşârün-ileyhin vakfı olup nısf-ı mâlikânesi evlâdına ve nısf-ı diğeri türbesinde eczâ-yı şerîfe kıraatına meşrûttur. [306]

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In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of Mustafa Bey, son of Devâtdâr Ahmed Pasha, son of Hacı Şadgeldi Pasha, son of Hacı Kutlu Şah; and the son of the daughter of Büyük Çeribaşı Emîneddîn Mehmed Çelebi. Of his sisters, Emîne Hâtun Sultan was a wife of Murad II, and Safiye Hâtun was a wife of Yörgüç Pasha.

While he was a holder of a zeamet he became brother-in-law of Murad II, and so entered the ranks of the emirs; later, as beylerbeyi, he was guardian of Sivas and Tokat and took part in the wars. In 847 [1443-44], after the war of Varna, he became beylerbeyi of Ankara and died in 855 [1451-52].

Letters he wrote to Yörgüç Pasha addressing him as "my brother-in-law" have been seen. In the letters Yörgüç Pasha wrote to him, he too is seen addressing him as "emir of the great emirs, my brother Emînüddîn Mehmed Pasha". His sons are Mustafa and Murtaza Beys and his brother is Himmet Bey. His daughters are Lütufşâh and Sitti Hatuns, and he is buried with them in one tomb. The village of Kozluca in the nahiye of Geldiklân is the endowment of the emir mentioned; half of its income is for his children, and the other half is stipulated for the reading of the sections of the Qur'an at his tomb.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • kerîmezâde: a daughter's son, a grandson through a daughter
  • halîle: wife, consort
  • züamâ: holders of zeamets, large military fiefs
  • ümerâ: emirs
  • muhâfız: an official responsible for guarding a place
  • muhârebât: wars
  • emîrü'l-ümerâi'l-izâm: emir of the great emirs; a form of address for a beylerbeyi
  • kerîme: a daughter
  • medfûn: buried
  • nısf-ı mâlikâne: half of the income from a property
  • eczâ-yı şerîfe kıraati: reading of the sections of the Qur'an
  • meşrût: stipulated

The Line of Descent

Hüsameddin ties Mehmed Pasha to a chain descending from Hacı Kutlu Şah: Mustafa Bey, Devâtdâr Ahmed Pasha, Hacı Şadgeldi Pasha, Hacı Kutlu Şah. Şadgeldi was emir of Amasya and died in 783 [1381-82] in a battle with Kadı Burhaneddin; the son who succeeded him was named Ahmed. It is likely that this Ahmed and Devâtdâr Ahmed Pasha are the same man, but the sources read do not say so explicitly (inference). According to the previous entry Mustafa Bey is the son-in-law of Büyük Çeribaşı; this agrees with Mehmed Pasha being counted as the Çeribaşı's daughter's son.

Yörgüç Pasha

Yörgüç Pasha, named twice in the text, was the tutor [lala] of Murad II and beylerbeyi of Rum. When Çelebi Sultan Mehmed sent his twelve-year-old son Prince Murad to Amasya in 1414, he gave Yörgüç Pasha to him as tutor. Yörgüç Pasha died in Zilhicce 845 [April-May 1442] and was buried in the tomb of the mosque he had built in Amasya; he had sons named Hızır, Yûnus and Mustafa and two daughters, Sitti and Hundi Hatun. In the encyclopedia the name Çiçek Hatun appears as Yörgüç Pasha's wife; Safiye Hâtun is not mentioned. The Yörgüç Pasha Mosque (1430) is one of the surviving works of Amasya. Hüsameddin's description of Safiye Hâtun as Yörgüç Pasha's wife, and the correspondence between Yörgüç Pasha and Mehmed Pasha, were not found in the sources read and could not be verified.

A Difference in Dates

Hüsameddin gives Mehmed Pasha's beylerbeyilik of Ankara as "in 847, after the war of Varna". According to the encyclopedia the Battle of Varna was fought on 28 Receb 848 [10 November 1444]; Hüsameddin's 847 differs from this by one year. The difference may come from a slip in writing or counting, but the sources read do not explain it (inference). That Yörgüç Pasha died in 845 [1442] suggests that the correspondence in the text must have taken place before Varna; this too is an inference.

Emîne Hâtun, Kozluca and the Tomb

No information was found in the sources read on the marriage of Mehmed Pasha's sister Emîne Hâtun Sultan to Murad II, on the endowment of the village of Kozluca in the nahiye of Geldiklân, on Mehmed Pasha's tomb or on his sons. His guardianship of Sivas and Tokat and his beylerbeyilik of Ankara could not be verified in other sources either.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 356–357. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

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