Gülçiçek Hatun

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Gülçiçek, the title is Hatun, and there is no family name.

Gülçiçek Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: گلچیچك خاتون; c. 1335 - c. 1400) also called Gökçiçek Hatun,^[1] was a Greek woman from Bithynia^[2] who became a concubine of Ottoman Sultan Murad I and Valide Hatun to their son Bayezid I.^[3]

The husband of Gülçiçek Hatun, Ottoman Sultan Murad I.

The son of Gülçiçek Hatun, sultan Bayezid I.

Gülçiçek Hatun
Valide Hatun of the Ottoman Sultanate
Tenure	16 June 1389 – c. 1400
Predecessor	Nilüfer Hatun
Successor	Devlet Hatun
Born	Maria c. 1335 Bithynia, Ottoman Empire (now Northern Anatolia, Anatolia, Turkey)
Died	c. 1400(1400-00-00) (aged 64–65) Bursa, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Bursa
Consort of	Murad I
Issue	Bayezid I Yahşi Bey
Religion	Christianity (birth) Sunni Islam (conversion)

Biography

According to a tradition, Gülçiçek was a concubine of Aslan Bey, one of the Princes of the Anatolian Muslim Principality of Karasids. She was captured when Orhan conquered the principality (c. 1344) and placed in the Sultan's harem. Around 1359, when Orhan's son Murad had reached adulthood, she became his concubine.^[4]

She gave birth to Murad two sons, Bayezid I and Yahşi Bey. She appointed her son Yahşi as trustee for an endowment deed she made for a Dervish Monastery. In her lifetime she established a religious and charitable foundation which demonstrated her Muslim piety publicly. With its revenues she built a mosque, the first Ottoman concubine to build one, and a tomb in Bursa where she was buried when she died, around 1400.^[5][6]

See also

• Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman dynasty
• Ottoman family tree
• Valide sultan
• List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire
• Line of succession to the Ottoman throne
• Ottoman Emperors family tree (simplified)
• List of consorts of the Ottoman Sultans

Further reading

• Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-508677-5 (paperback).