Bülbül Hatun


Bülbül Hatun was a consort of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire.

Life

Bülbül Hatun married Bayezid when he was still a prince and the governor of Amasya. She had three children, two sons, Şehzade Ahmet and Şehzade Mahmud, and one daughter, Hundi Hatun, who married Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha.
According to Turkish tradition, all princes were expected to work as provincial governors as a part of their training. Ahmed was sent to Çorum in 1480, and then to Amasya, and Bülbül accompanied him.
She built and endowed a mosque and a soup kitchen in Ladik. At Amasya, she built another mosque, a school and a fountain. In Bursa she had endowed and built a religious college. She endowed a portion of her properties to the Enderun mosque in 1505. After Şehzade Mahmud's death in 1507, she built a tomb for him in Bursa.
In 1512, she built another complex and endowed a significant amount of property for its expenses. She designated her son Ahmed, and upon his death Ahmed's eldest daughter and her daughters, as the administrator of
the endowment. Bülbül's delegation of the regency of the endowment through the matrilineal line after his son Ahmed demonstrated that this endowment was established as a precautionary measure in the event that Ahmed failed in his bid for the sultanate.
In 1513, Bülbül's granddaughter, Fatma Sultan, daughter of her son, Şehzade Mahmud, and her husband Mehmed Çelebi were placed under house arrest following the Kızılbaş leanings. She was only pardoned following Bülbül's intercession.

Death

After the death of Şehzade Ahmed in 1513, Bülbül Hatun came to Bursa. She built a tomb for Ahmed, in which she was too buried at her death in 1515.

Issue

Together with Bayezid, Bülbül had three children: