Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 317 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Köprülüdür. Ömer Ağa’nın oğludur. Gençliğinde İstanbul’a gidip Istabl-ı âmire dâiresine girdi. Orada ta’lîm ve terbiye edilip Esbân-ı hâssa-i rahtuvânî oldu. Hayli müddet rahtuvân olup Sultân Mustafa-i Sâlisin cülûsunda Köprü’ye gönderildi.
Sonra Köprü a’yânı olup 1194’de vefât etdi. Derebaşı Mezarlığında medfûndur. Oğulları el-Hâc Ömer, Hasan Ağalardır. Sertüfeng-i şehriyârî Hâfız Hasan Ağazâde İsmâil Efendi Üsküdar’da medfûndur. Ömer Ağazâde İsmâil Paşa’dır.
He is from Köprü. He is the son of Ömer Ağa. In his youth he went to Istanbul and entered the organization of the Istabl-ı âmire (the palace stables). There, trained and brought up, he became one of the rahtuvans of the sultan's own horses. After serving as rahtuvan for a considerable time he was sent to Köprü at the accession of Sultan Mustafa III.
He then became a notable of Köprü and died in 1194 [1780-81]. He is buried in the Derebaşı Cemetery. His sons are Hacı Ömer and Hasan Ağa. Hâfız Hasan Ağazâde İsmâil Efendi, the sultan's chief of musketeers, is buried in Üsküdar. Ömer Ağazâde is İsmâil Pasha.
The official name of the Has Ahur, where the horses of the sultan and the palace people were kept in the Ottoman state, is Istabl-ı Âmire. In 1478, the year Topkapı Palace was built, this organization had an emin, a clerk, a kethüda, saddlers, grooms, farriers, coachmen, muleteers and camel keepers; in the 16th century the staff of the Has Ahur reached 3,341. The chief officer was the mîrâhur. The officials in the treasury of the imperial saddle sets (raht-ı hümâyun) who dealt with the sultan's saddle sets and prepared them and put them on the horse when needed were called "rahtvan ağas" or "rahtvân-ı hâs"; there were also rahtvan ağas in the saddlers' companies. The phrase Hüsameddin uses for İsmâil Ağa, "rahtuvan of the sultan's own horses", points to this duty. The text does not say in which company İsmâil Ağa, son of Ömer Ağa, worked at the palace, how many years he served, or under whom he was trained.
İsmâil Ağa was sent to Köprü at the accession of Mustafa III and later became one of its notables; the text gives no year. Hüsameddin also records that one of the sons later became a pasha (Ömer Ağazâde İsmâil Pasha). Köprü may be today's Vezirköprü, but the text does not state this. No information was found in other sources on the Derebaşı Cemetery, İsmâil Ağa, his sons, or Ömer Ağazâde İsmâil Pasha.