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Mahfiruz Hatice Sultan (fully ''Devletlu İsmetlu Mahfiruz Hatice Valide Sultan Aliyyetü'ş-Şân Hazretleri''; 1590 – 26 October 1620) was a wife of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603-1617). She was the mother of Sultan Osman II (r. 1618–1622), Şehzade Hüseyin, Şehzade Bayezid and Şehzade Mehmed and was valide sultan from 26 February 1618 until her death on 26 October 1620. ==Life== She was a Serbian originally named Eudoxia. The earlier theory of her being Greek has been refuted.〔History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Stanford Jay Shaw, Cambridge University Press, p. 191〕 She was the first of Ahmed I's three women and bore him Osman II. With the birth of Osman, the couple's first child, Ahmed became the youngest Ottoman sultan to become father, and Osman was the first Ottoman first-born prince to be born in the Imperial capital of Istanbul. Mahfiruz was alive when her son, Osman was finally enthroned in 1618 as Sultan Osman II after the deposition of the incompetent Mustafa I. However, contrary to the assumptions of modern accounts, she did not live in the imperial palace during Osman's reign nor did she act as a Valide Sultan. Privy Purse registers no Valide Sultan during Osman's reign. Mahfiruz perhaps never entered the harem as Fatma Hatun and Akile Hatun, the daughters of Kuyucu Murad Pasha and Şeyhülislam Esad Efendi respectively. From the middle of 1620, Osman's governess, the ''daye hatun'', began to receive an extraordinary large stipend, one thousand aspers a day rather than her usual two hundrend aspers, an indication that she was now the official stand-in for the Valide Sultan. What seems like that Mahfiruz fell into disfavour, was banished from the palace at some point before Osman's accession, and never recovered her status as a royal consort. Banishment in disgrace would explain both Mahfiruz's absence from the palace and her burial in the popular shrine of Eyüb rather than in her husband's tomb. The Venetian ambassador Contarini reported in 1612 that the sultan had had a beating administrated to a woman who had irritated Kösem; perhaps this woman was Mahfiruz. Mahfiruz's banishment would have removed a serious obstacle to Kösem's efforts to keep Mustafa away from execution, since the party of Osman had the greatest stake in the survival of the traditional system of succession. She died on 26 October 1620 and was buried in large sanctuary of Eyüp, Istanbul. There are speculations that she was murdered by the orders of her nemesis Kösem Sultan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mahfiruz Hatice Sultan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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