Amasya eşrâfından Osmân Bey bin Ebûbekir Bey bin Mîrlivâ [38] Derviş Bey’in mahdûmu ve Anadolu vâlisi Ömer Paşa’nın birâder-zâdesidir. Şâdgeldi Paşa ahfâdından olup Amasya eşrâfından Hâce Paşazâde el-Hâc İbrâhim Bey’in dâmâdı oldu.
Sipâhi meşâhirinden olup Sivas kethüdâyeri, 1124’de vâlî kâim-i makâmı ve ba’dehû Sivas mütesellimi oldu. 1127’de İstanbul’da Hasekî olan Sivaslı Seyyid Mehmed Ağa’nın nüfûzuyla Amasya‘ya avdet etdi.
1131’de Tokat Voyvadası ve Amasya beytü’l-mâl emîni olup 1134’de İran harbine me’mûr oldu. 1137’de İran muhârebâtında vefât etdi. Şecî’, müdebbir, zî-nüfûz bir zât idi. Mahdûmu İbrâhim Paşa’dır.
In Modern English
He was the son of Osman Bey, one of the notables of Amasya; Osman Bey was the son of Ebûbekir Bey, who was the son of the mirliva Derviş Bey. He was the nephew, his brother's son, of Ömer Pasha, governor of Anatolia. He was among the descendants of Şâdgeldi Pasha; he became the son-in-law of Hacı İbrahim Bey, son of Hâce Pasha, one of the notables of Amasya.
One of the well-known sipahis, he became Sivas kethüdâyeri, in 1124 [1712-13] vali kâim-i makâmı (deputy to the governor), and then mütesellim (deputy governor) of Sivas. In 1127 [1715], through the influence of Sivaslı Seyyid Mehmed Ağa, who was Hasekî in Istanbul, he returned to Amasya.
In 1131 [1718-19] he became voyvoda of Tokat and beytülmâl emini (trustee of estates) of Amasya, and in 1134 [1721-22] he was assigned to the war against Iran. In 1137 [1724-25] he died in the Iranian wars. He was a brave, prudent and influential man. His son is İbrahim Pasha.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- eşrâf: notables, respected families
- mîrlivâ: sanjak bey
- birâder-zâde: brother's son
- ahfâd: grandchildren, descendants
- dâmâd: son-in-law
- sipâhi: a cavalryman holding a fief
- kethüdâyeri: an official who stands in for a kethüda; his range of duties in Sivas could not be verified
- vâlî kâim-i makâmı: deputy to the governor, one who acts for him in his absence
- mütesellim: a deputy who governs a district on behalf of a governor or sanjak bey
- voyvoda: an administrator charged with collecting the revenues of a district
- beytü'l-mâl emîni: the official responsible for managing property that falls to the state and estates without heirs
- şecî': brave, valiant
- müdebbir: prudent, one who manages affairs well
- zî-nüfûz: possessing influence
The Şâdgeldi Pasha Lineage
Hüsameddin traces İdris Ağa's lineage back to Şâdgeldi Pasha. In the sources Hacı Şâdgeldi is the emir of Amasya in the late fourteenth century. His name appears among those who killed Eretnaoğlu Mehmed Bey in 1365. Kadı Burhâneddin, who established his rule at Sivas, eliminated Hacı Şâdgeldi, the ruler of Amasya and his main rival: in the autumn of 1381 he marched against him, defeated him and had him killed. We could not verify the lineage Hüsameddin mentions with an independent source; the similarity of names should not be taken as certain kinship.
The Iranian Campaigns
Hüsameddin's sentence "in 1134 he was assigned to the war against Iran, in 1137 he died in the Iranian battles" relates to the wars waged against the Safavids in the reign of Ahmed III. According to the sources the Ottoman-Iranian wars began in 1723 and continued with interruptions until 1747. In the first phase of the wars the province of Sivas supplied the campaign with soldiers, provisions, taxes and pack animals. Among the soldiers who joined from the province are counted the kapıkulus, zeamet and timar holders, the households of governors, serdengeçtis and levends; for expenses, extraordinary taxes called avarız and imdâd-ı seferiyye were collected from the people. That a sipahi notable who had served as mütesellim of Sivas and held the voyvodalık of Tokat was assigned to such a campaign may fit within this system; but with which unit he went is not known.
The Hamadan leg of the campaign is also known: after the Ottoman army under Eyüplü Hasan Pasha took Kermanshah, Hasan Pasha died and his son Ahmed Pasha completed the campaign; after a siege of fifty-nine days Hamadan was taken on 11 Zilhicce 1136 [31 August 1724]. The year of death Hüsameddin gives, 1137 [1724-25], falls right after this event; but in which battle İdris Ağa died could not be determined in the sources read. Hüsameddin's date of 1134 [1721-22], for its part, is somewhat earlier than 1723, the year given as the beginning of the wars; whether the difference comes from the preparatory period of the campaign or from a slip in dating could not be verified.
The Sivas and Tokat Connection
İdris Ağa's career path runs through Sivas and Tokat. According to Hüsameddin, Sivaslı Seyyid Mehmed Ağa's influence in Istanbul enabled his return to Amasya. It can also be seen that the same Mehmed Ağa is mentioned in Hüsameddin's previous entry (İdris Ağa-Şeyhîzâde) as an influential figure in a waqf dispute. Read together, these two entries show the name of the same Sivaslı ağa in Istanbul turning up in the affairs of two different Amasya families in Hüsameddin's account.
What Could Not Be Read
No information was found in other sources on Ömer Pasha, governor of Anatolia, on Hâce Paşazâde Hacı İbrahim Bey, on Derviş Bey, or on his son İbrahim Pasha.
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