Amasyalıdır. Osmâncık’ta medfûn Koca Mehmed Paşazâde Mahmûd Paşa’nın kerîmesi ve Kastamonu emîri Candârzâde İsfendiyâr Bey’in kerîmezâdesidir. Candârlızâde İbrâhim Paşa 868’de Amasya kadısı olup geldikde bunu tezevvüc etmişdi.[391]
887’de zevci İbrâhim Paşa ile İstanbul’a gidip orada büyük bir devlet ve sa’âdet içinde yaşadı. 903’de zevci sadr-ı a’zam olduğunda saâdeti tedâ’uf edib 905’de zevcinin vefâtına binâen mahdûmları Îsâ, Halîl beylerle Bursa’da ikâmet etdi.
Orada bir mekteb inşâ edib emlâkini 908’de vakfedip 911’de vefât etdi. Amasya’da bulunan emlâki de mevkûfâtı cümlesindendi. Amasya’da ba’zı mescidlerin İmâmlarına vezâ’if verdi. Sâlihât-ı nisâdan sâhibe-i hayr bir kadındı.
In Modern English
She was a native of Amasya. She was the daughter of Mahmûd Paşa, son of Koca Mehmed Paşa, who is buried in Osmancık, and the daughter of the daughter of İsfendiyâr Bey, emir of Kastamonu. When Candarlızâde İbrâhim Paşa came to Amasya as its kadı in 868 [1463-64], he had married her.
In 887 [1482-83] she went to Istanbul with her husband İbrâhim Paşa and lived there in great state and happiness. In 903 [1497-98], when her husband became grand vizier, her happiness multiplied. In 905 [1499-1500], after her husband's death, she settled in Bursa with her sons Îsâ and Halîl Beys.
There she had a school built and endowed her properties in 908 [1502-03]; she died in 911 [1505-06]. Her properties in Amasya were also among the possessions she endowed. She assigned stipends to the imams of some mosques in Amasya. She was among the righteous women, a lady of charity.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- kerîme: daughter
- kerîmezâde: grandchild through a daughter
- tezevvüc: marrying
- sadr-ı a'zam: grand vizier
- tedâ'uf: multiplying, increasing manifold
- emlâk: properties, possessions
- mevkûfât: endowed properties
- vezâ'if: salaries or allowances assigned to officials
- sâlihât-ı nisâ: good, devout women
Candarlı İbrâhim Paşa
The lady's husband was İbrâhim Paşa, the younger son of Çandarlı Halil Paşa; he became grand vizier in September 1498 and died in August 1499 during the siege of Lepanto (İnebahtı). In the sources he is first met as kadı of Edirne; he appears in this post in 1453, 1460-61 and 1465. In 1468 he was appointed lala (tutor) to Prince Bayezid, sanjak governor of Amasya, and in March 1473 he was serving as Bayezid's lala. He then served as military judge (kazasker) of Anatolia and of Rumeli, and rose to third vizier in 1486 and second vizier in 1487.
This post of kadı of Amasya in 868 [1463-64], which Hüsameddin gives, is not in the source we read; there his connection with Amasya begins with the position of lala in 1468. Since there are gaps between the years of his Edirne kadılık, the two pieces of information may not contradict each other, but we could not verify a kadılık at Amasya. The date of the grand vizierate is 903 [1497-98] in Hüsameddin and September 1498 in the source; the difference may be about a year. The date of death, 905 [1499-1500], fits a date close to August 1499.
The same source lists İbrâhim Paşa's three wives, and his four sons and three daughters. Among the wives are Hundi Hatun, daughter of Dayı Karaca Paşa, Hundi Hatun, daughter of Hızır Bey, and Hanzâde Hanım Sultan, daughter of Selçuk Sultan, daughter of Çelebi Sultan Mehmed. Hüsameddin's Îlaldı Hatun does not appear among them; whether she was another wife, or one of the wives known under a different name, could not be determined. According to the same source, İbrâhim Paşa had a school built in Bursa, constructed in 1488, and its endowments were regulated by deeds of 1494 and 1498. Whether the Bursa school that Hüsameddin attributes to the Hatun is the same building is not known.
Koca Mehmed Paşa and Osmancık
That Mahmûd Paşa, named as the Hatun's father, is called "Koca Mehmed Paşazâde" points to his being a son of the vizier Koca Mehmed Paşa, who had a complex built in Osmancık; this is an inference. Koca Mehmed Paşa became beylerbeyi of Anatolia while Mehmed I was in Amasya, rose to the grand vizierate in 1429 under Murad II, and died in Osmancık. His mosque and complex in Osmancık are dated by an inscription to 1430-31, and its deeds of endowment are of 1438-39 and 1439-40. We found no record in the sources we read confirming Hüsameddin's information that Mahmûd Paşa is buried in Osmancık.
İsfendiyâr Bey
İsfendiyâr Bey, whom Hüsameddin presents as the Hatun's grandfather on her mother's side, was of the Candaroğulları and ruled in Kastamonu and Sinop from 1392 to 1440. In his youth, in 1383, he took part in the campaign that Ahmed Bey, emir of Amasya, mounted against Kadı Burhâneddin, and after the defeat he did not return to Kastamonu but stayed in Amasya for a long time. We found no record confirming the marriage between Mahmûd Paşa and İsfendiyâr's daughter, or that the Hatun came from this line.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 382. amasya.bel.tr
Academic studies