Gevherhan Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)


Gevherhan Sultan was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed I and Kösem Sultan, half-sister of Sultan Osman II, and sister of Sultans Murad IV and Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire.

Birth

Named after an influential great-aunt, Gevherhan Sultan was the eldest daughter of Sultan Ahmed I.

First marriage

In the summer of 1612, seven year old Gevherhan was married, as arranged by Ahmed, to Öküz Kara Mehmed Pasha, who served as the governor of Egypt from 1607 to 1611, and Grand Admiral of the Ottoman fleet in 1611. The wedding took place at the Old Palace, and the couple were given the Palace of Ibrahim Pasha as their residence. Mehmed served as Grand Vizier from 1614 until 1616 under Ahmed, and then again for a few months in 1619 under Osman II. After being dismissed from the office a second time, he died in Aleppo in around 1621.

Second marriage

Gevherhan, later in the reign of her brother, Osman II, married Topal Recep Pasha, who in 1632 served as Grand Vizier under her brother Murad IV. With Recep Pasha, she had a daughter named Safiye Sultan, who in turn married the future Grand Vizier Abaza Siyavuş Pasha.

In popular culture

In the 2015 TV series , Gevherhan is portrayed by Turkish actresses Çağla Naz Kargı and Asli Tandoğan as a child and adult respectively.