AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ümmet Ağa-Hacı Enbiyâzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 348 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Ricâl-i Bâyezidîyyeden Pîr Mehmed Çelebi bin Hacı Enbiyâ Çelebi mahdûmudur. Şehzâdeliğinde Yavuz Sultân Selîm Hân’a intisâb edib cülûsunda dergâh-ı âlî çavûşânından oldu. Ba’dehû çavûşlar kethüdâsı olup 920’de Çaldıran Harbinde vefât etdi. Mahdûmu Nişâncı Mehmed Paşa’dır.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Amasya. He was the son of Pîr Mehmed Çelebi, son of Hacı Enbiyâ Çelebi, one of the notables of Bayezid's time. While Selim was still a prince he attached himself to Yavuz Sultan Selim Han; when Selim came to the throne he became one of the çavuşes of the Exalted Divan. Later he became kethüda of the çavuşes and died in 920 [1514] in the Battle of Çaldıran. His son was Nişancı Mehmed Pasha.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mahdûm: son
  • ricâl-i Bâyezidiyye: the leading men of Bayezid's time
  • intisâb: attachment, entering someone's service
  • cülûs: accession to the throne
  • dergâh-ı âlî çavûşânı: the çavuşes serving at the Exalted Divan (the sultan's divan)
  • çavûşlar kethüdâsı: the steward, the head of the çavuşes
  • ba'dehû: after that
  • nişâncı: the official who validated the sultan's decrees with the tuğra

The Battle of Çaldıran

The Battle of Çaldıran between Yavuz Sultan Selim and the Safavid Shah İsmâil was fought on 23 August 1514; this date agrees with the year 920 that Hüsameddin gives. The battle began with an attack by 40,000 elite cavalry under the shah's command. Pîr Mehmed Çelebi's place in the battle and the manner of his death are not mentioned in the sources consulted; the text says only "vefât etdi." That he died in the battle is therefore information resting on Hüsameddin.

Nişancı Mehmed Pasha

In this entry Hüsameddin names Pîr Mehmed Çelebi's son as Nişancı Mehmed Pasha. Elsewhere in the book he writes that Pîrî Pasha, to raise a successor for himself, had Nişancı Mehmed Pasha of Amasya made vizier after Sultan Süleyman's accession, that after Pîrî Pasha's dismissal and resignation Mehmed Pasha was also sent to Sivas, and that the vizierate was forbidden to Turks. Elsewhere in the same book, in listing the notables of a family, "Hüseyin Çelebizâde Nişâncı Mehmed Paşa" is also mentioned. Whether the Mehmed Pasha of these two records is the same man, and whether either is identical with the person in this entry, is not stated in the text; the father's name is also given differently in the two places (Pîr Mehmed Çelebi, Hüseyin Çelebi). This contradiction arises from Hüsameddin's own text.

The man who built the Nişancı Mehmed Pasha Complex in Istanbul was Mehmed Pasha (d. 1003/1594), one of the dome viziers and nişancıs of the time of Murad III; after his death in 1594 he was buried in the complex's tomb. The sources consulted do not say that this man was from Amasya or the son of Pîr Mehmed Çelebi. Because the names are the same, the two men should not be confused; their relationship could not be verified.

Searches on Hacı Enbiyâ Çelebi and Pîr Mehmed Çelebi turned up no information.

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