Şehsuvar Sultan (;  1682 – 27 April 1756; meaning "intrepid hero") was a consort to the Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II (r. 1695–1703) and Valide Sultan to their son Osman III (r. 1754–1757).
Life
Şehsuvar Sultan was born in 1682.
She became a concubine of Sultan Mustafa.
Şehsuvar and Mustafa had one son, Osman III, born on January 2, 1699, in the Edirne Palace.
The Edirne event saw Mustafa dethroned, with his brother Ahmed III succeeding as the new Sultan (r. 1703–1730), and Şehsuvar was sent to the Old Palace, Istanbul.
On the other hand, her son, Şehzade Osman was transferred to the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul together with the entire court.
Sultan Mahmud I, Mustafa's first son and the older half-brother of Osman, succeeded as Sultan following Patrona Halil's orchestrated riot.
Mahmud was then succeeded by his half-brother Osman, thus Şehsuvar became the new Valide sultan.
Valide sultans were usually transported to Topkapı Palace by carriages.
However, Şehsuvar was brought to the palace in a palanquin.
The sultan, who had not seen his mother for many years, ordered his sword girding ceremony to be held a few days after the arrival of his mother to the palace.
In 1755, Şehsuvar persuaded her son, not to execute the grand vizier, Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha, who had been imprisoned in the Kız Kulesi.
This proved to be an example of beneficent influence.
Death
Şehsuvar Sultan died on 27 April 1756 in the Topkapı Palace, and was buried in a separate mausoleum located at the Nuruosmaniye Mosque, Çemberlitaş, Fatih, Istanbul.
Issue
Together with Mustafa, Şehsuvar had one son:
Sultan Osman III (Edirne Palace, Edirne, 2 January 1699 - Istanbul, Turkey, 30 October 1757, buried in Tomb of Turhan Sultan, New Mosque, Istanbul), married five times without issue;
According to Sakaoğlu, Şehsuvar was also the mother of :
Emetullah Sultan (1701-19.04.1727).
She was married in 1720, when her uncle Ahmed III married her to the governor of Musul Sirke Osman Paşa, who had just lost his first wife, Mehmed IV's granddaughter Rukiye Hanımsultan.
In 1723, Emetullah gave birth to her only child: Hibetullah Hanımsultan (1723-1744).
Osman Paşa died in 1724 and Emetullah herself only three years later.
She was buried in the mausoleum of Turhan Hatice Sultan.
See also
List of Valide Sultans
List of consorts of the Ottoman Sultans
References
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