Amasyalıdır. Amasya‘da hamamı ve Şehzâde Sultân Ahmed vezîri olan Yularkısdı Sinan Paşa’nın mahdûmudur. Buna Yularkısdıoğlu da denirdi. Amasya’da Çukurbahçe’de doğdu. Gâyet güzel olduğundan Şehzâde Sultân Ahmed Sarayı’nda büyüdü.
916’da Şehzâde-i müşârün-ileyhin kerîmesi Gevher Hân Sultân ile teehhül etdi. 918’de Sultân Selîm-i Evvelin cülûsunda Amasya‘da kalıp zeâmet verildi. Hayli müddet menkûbâne yaşadı. 940 vak’asında ibrâz-ı hizmet eylediğinden zeâmeti artırıldı.
945’de Bâyezîd Sancağı beyi olarak Amasya‘dan gitdi. Ba’dehû Bayburt, Muş ve 965’de Adilcevaz sancâklarına Mîrlivâ olup 967’de Şehzâde Bâyezîd vak’asında Şehzâde Sultân Selîm-i Sâniye sadâkat gösterdiğinden Ankara [105] beyi oldu. Bir yıl sonra vefât etdi.
Kibâr-ı ümerâdan olup pederinin vakfına mütevellî ve mâlikânesine mutasarrıf olduğu gibi zevcesinin vâlidesi olan Bülbül Hâtun vakfının da mütevellî kâim-i mâkâmı idi. Mahdûmları Ahmed, Mehmed Beyler ve birâderi Mustafa Paşa’dır. Hafîdi İskender Bey de ümerâdandır.
In Modern English
He is from Amasya. He was the son of Yularkısdı Sinan Pasha, who had a bathhouse in Amasya and was vizier to Prince Sultan Ahmed. He was also called Yularkısdıoğlu. He was born in Çukurbahçe in Amasya. Because he was very handsome, he grew up in the palace of Prince Sultan Ahmed.
In 916 [1510-11] he married Gevher Han Sultan, the daughter of the aforementioned prince. In 918 [1512-13], at the accession of Sultan Selim I, he stayed in Amasya and was granted a zeamet. He lived a troubled life for a long time. In the affair of 940 his zeamet was increased because of the service he rendered.
In 945 he left Amasya as bey of the Bâyezîd Sanjak. Afterward he became mirliva of the sanjaks of Bayburt and Muş, and in 965 of Adilcevaz. In 967, in the affair of Prince Bâyezîd, he showed loyalty to Prince Sultan Selim II and was made bey of Ankara. He died a year later.
He was one of the great beys. Just as he was trustee of his father's waqf and held the mâlikâne of his father's property, he was also deputy trustee of the waqf of Bülbül Hatun, the mother of his wife. His sons were the beys Ahmed and Mehmed, and his brother was Mustafa Pasha. His grandson İskender Bey was also one of the beys.
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- mahdûm: son
- kerîme: daughter
- teehhül: marriage
- cülûs: accession to the throne
- menkûbâne: in hardship and misfortune
- mîrlivâ: sanjak bey
- kibâr-ı ümerâ: the great beys
- mütevellî kâim-i mâkâmı: deputy of the waqf administrator
- mâlikâne: the right to operate part of the state revenue for life
- mutasarrıf: a person with the authority to use and operate a property
- hafîd: grandson
Prince Ahmed's Amasya
Prince Ahmed, the owner of the palace where İskender Bey grew up, was a son of Bayezid II and served as governor of Amasya from 1483 to 1513. He lost the struggle he waged against his brother Selim, who had taken the throne, in the battle near Yenişehir on 24 April 1513, and was captured and executed shortly afterward. During this period Amasya was one of the principal centers to which princes were sent to gain administrative experience. In 1525 the city had fifty-five neighborhoods, five of them non-Muslim, and a population of about eight thousand; by the middle of the sixteenth century it lost its character as a princely sanjak. The year 918, in which Hüsameddin says İskender Bey "stayed in Amasya and was granted a zeamet," is the year Selim took the throne and Ahmed continued his fight against him; according to the sources, Ahmed held part of Anatolia in the first months. The "Bâyezîd affair," in which he is said to have shown loyalty to Selim II, is the struggle between the sons of Süleyman the Magnificent. The first clash between Selim and Bayezid took place at Konya on 21 Shaban 966 (29 May 1559), and the defeated Bayezid took refuge in Iran with his sons; the date 967 that Hüsameddin gives corresponds to the continuation of these events.
Bülbül Hatun and Her Waqf
Bülbül Hatun was one of the wives of Bayezid II and the mother of Prince Ahmed. In the Hatuniye neighborhood of Amasya, on the north bank of the Yeşilırmak, she had a mosque, a children's school and an imaret built. Hüsameddin records that the school was a solid masonry building and that there was a tabhane on either side of the imaret. According to an English-language source, in 1512 Bülbül Hatun had another complex built and endowed it, leaving its administration first to her son Ahmed and, after his death, to Ahmed's eldest daughter and her daughters, so that the waqf's management would pass through the female line. After Ahmed's death in 1513, Bülbül Hatun came to Bursa, died around 1515 and was buried in the tomb she had built for Ahmed. Hüsameddin's description of her as "the mother of his wife" seems to conflict with this: according to the sources Bülbül Hatun was the mother of the father of İskender Bey's wife Gevher Han, that is, her grandmother. The difference may come from Hüsameddin's brevity or from Gevher Han's mother bearing the same name; the sources examined do not explain it.
What Could Not Be Verified
Among the daughters of Prince Ahmed the names Kamerşah, Fatma, Fahrihan and Hanzade are mentioned; since the list is given as "at least four daughters," Gevher Han could be a daughter outside these, but her name does not appear in the sources. The same source reports that Kamerşah Sultan married Mustafa Bey, sanjak bey of Midilli, in 1508, and that Mustafa Bey was the son of a certain İskender Pasha; the relation of this İskender Pasha to the İskender Pasha whom Hüsameddin describes in entry 102 is not stated. For Yularkısdı Sinan Pasha and his bathhouse in Amasya, the birthplace at Çukurbahçe, and the sanjaks of Bâyezîd, Bayburt, Muş, Adilcevaz and Ankara, no information was found in other sources.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 296. amasya.bel.tr
Other sources