Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 351 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasya kâdı’l-kudâtı Mevlânâ İmadeddîn Ömer bin el-Kâdî Şemseddîn Mehmed bin Necîbüddîn Mûsâ el-Hallatî kerîmesi ve Amasya hükümdârı Hacı Kutlu Şâh’ın halîlesi ve emîr-i kebîr Hacı Şâdgeldi Paşa’nın vâlidesidir. [286]
Zevcinin hükûmeti zamanında şâhâne yaşadı. Sâbıkuddîn Mahallesi’nde zevcinin binâ etdiği câmi civârında bir mekteb ve kendisine bir türbe binâ etdiyse de 761’de Sivas’da vefât etdiği münâsebetle türbesi Ehli Hatûn’a kaldı.
She was the daughter of Mevlânâ İmâdeddîn Ömer, chief judge of Amasya. İmâdeddîn Ömer was the son of the judge Şemseddîn Mehmed, and Şemseddîn Mehmed was the son of Necîbüddîn Mûsâ el-Hallatî. She was the wife of Hacı Kutlu Şah, ruler of Amasya, and the mother of the great emir Hacı Şâdgeldi Pasha.
During her husband's rule she lived in a manner fitting a ruler's wife. She had a school built in the Sâbıkuddîn quarter near the mosque her husband had built, and a tomb for herself, but since she died in Sivas in 761 [1359-60], her tomb was left to Ehli Hatun.
Hacı Kutlu Şah and his son Hacı Şadgeldi were the family that ruled Amasya in the second half of the fourteenth century. Şadgeldi Pasha was Kutlu Şah's second son. He was born and raised in Amasya and studied with the scholars of the city. While Kutlu Şah was struggling with the Karamanids, he called his eldest son Ahmed Şah to Sivas and appointed Şadgeldi emir of Amasya in 760 [1359]. The date 761 [1359-60] given by Hüsameddin falls in this period. That she died in Sivas fits with her husband being around Sivas at the time, but this link is our own inference.
In 762 [1361] Kutlu Şah and Ahmed Şah were killed in battle with the Karamanids. Most of the Amasya army had gone to Kutlu Şah's aid, and Alâeddin Ali Bey took advantage of this to seize the city. Şadgeldi first withdrew to his uncle at Turhal, then quickly gathered forces and retook Amasya. He turned a rule that had begun as that of an emir subordinate to the Eretnids into a de facto independent emirate. This period of more than twenty years ended in 783 [1381], when Şadgeldi lost a battle against Kadı Burhâneddin at Tokat and was killed. His grave is in the Halfet Gazi cemetery in Amasya, and according to one study it bears his name and the date of his death.
It is related that Kadı Burhâneddin spread the claim that Şadgeldi was of slave descent in order to discredit him with the people. Hüsameddin's giving his mother as the daughter of a chief judge can be read as a record against this rumor; this too is an inference.
No information was found in other sources on Ümmü'l-Hayr Hundî Hatun, the school and tomb in the Sâbıkuddîn quarter, or Ehli Hatun, to whom the tomb passed. What the sentence "her tomb was left to Ehli Hatun" means is also uncertain; it may be that the tomb was assigned to another lady or used as her grave, but this is a guess.
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