Bülbül Hatun

Bülbül Hatun (died c. 1515; meaning "Nightingale") was the Empress of the Ottoman Empire as the wife of Sultan Bayezid II.

Early years

Bülbül married Bayezid at Amasya. Together with Bayezid Bülbül had six children:^[1]

• Şehzade Ahmet (Amasya, c. 1466 - Yenişehir, 24 April 1513) Governor of Sarihan 1481-1483 and of Amasya 1483-1513;
• Şehzade Mahmud (Amasya, c. 1475 - Manisa, c. 1507), Governor of Kastamonu 1504 and of Sarihan 1504-1507;
• Gevhermülük Sultan, married 1480 to Damat Dukakinzade Mehmed Pasha;
• Hatice Sultan, married to Damat Faiq Pasha;
• Hundi Sultan, married 1484, Damat Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha;
• Şehzade Sultan, married in 1490 to Damat Nasuh Bey;

Charities

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 built a religious college.

Last years

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

Exterior view of Hatuniye Mosque built by Bülbül Hatun.

References

Bibliography

• M. Çağatay Uluçay (1985). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Türk Tarih Kurumu. 
• Necdet Sakaoğlu (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6. 
• Leslie P. Peirce (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-08677-5. 
• Narodna biblioteka "Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiĭ. Orientalski otdel, International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture (2003). Inventory of Ottoman Turkish documents about Waqf preserved in the Oriental Department at the St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library: Registers. Narodna biblioteka "Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiĭ.  CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)