Safiye Sultan (daughter of Mustafa II)


Safiye Sultan was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Mustafa II, and half-sister of Sultans Mahmud I and Osman III of the Ottoman Empire.

Life

Birth

Safiye Sultan was born on 13 December 1696 in the Edirne Palace, thus being the third daughter of Sultan Mustafa II.

Marriages

Safiye was betrothed at the same time as her sisters Emine Sultan and Ayşe Sultan, to the son of Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, known as Maktulzade Ali Pasha, and Beylerbey of Adana at the time. The marriage took place on 8 May 1710, during the reign of her uncle Sultan Ahmed III. The wedding procession travelled only a short distance from the Imperial Gate, through Cebehane and Soğukçeşme road to the princess's palace at Demirkapı, known as "Rami Pasha’s palace", where the marriage was consummated. Soon afterwards, in June 1710, the bridegroom was sent away to Diyarbekir to serve as provincial governor.
After Ali Pasha's death in 1723, Safiye married Mirzazade Mehmed Pasha on 1 July 1726. After Mehmed Pasha's death in 1728, she married Ebu Bekr Pasha in 1740, during the reign of her half-brother Sultan Mahmud I. She was widowed at his death in 1759.

Issue

Safiye Sultan had a daughter Zahide Hanımsultan, who married Ebu Bekr Pasha's son Elhac Suleiman Bey, and died on 6 February 1790.

Charities

Safiye Sultan is known to have made vakfs for Hagia Sophia, Sultan Mehmed, Sultan Bayezid and Valide Sultan mosques. In 1729, she commissioned a fountain near the Bulgurlu Mosque in Üsküdar. In 1780, two years after her death, a fountain was commissioned between Paşabahçe and Tepeköy in Bosphorus.

Death

Safiye Sultan died on 15 May 1778, and was buried outside the mausoleum of Suleiman the Magnificent, Süleymaniye Mosque. Istanbul. Her daughter, Zahide was buried beside her.

Ancestry