Gülistu Kadın

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

Gülistü Kadin, called also Gülüstü Kadin, Gülistu Hanim or Gülüstu Hanim (Turkish pronunciation: [ɟylysˈty]; Ottoman Turkish: کلستو خانم; "garden rose"; born Princess Fatma Chachba; 1830 - c. 1861) was a consort of Sultan Abdulmejid I, and the mother of Sultan Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Gülistu
Kadın
Born	Princess Fatma Chachba 1830
Died	c. 1861(1861-00-00) (aged 30–31) Eyüp Palace, Eyüp, Constantinople (now Istanbul), Ottoman Empire
Burial	Gülistü Kadin Mausoleum, Fatih Mosque, Fatih, Istanbul
Consort	Abdulmejid I ​ ​ (m. 1855; died 1861)​
Issue	Zekiye Sultan Fehime Sultan Mediha Sultan Mehmed VI
Names Turkish: Gülistü Kadin Ottoman Turkish: کلستو خانم
House	Chachba (by birth) Ottoman (by marriage)
Father	Prince Tahir Bey Chachba
Religion	Sunni Islam

Life

Born as Fatma Chachba,^[1] Gülistü Kadin was a member of an Abkhazian princely family.^[2] Her father was Prince Tahir Bey Chachba.^[1][3] She was a relative of Kelesh Ahmed-Bey Shervashidze, head of state of the Principality of Abkhazia. She was described as a tall woman.^[4]

Gülistü married Abdulmejid in 1854, and was given the title of "Fourth Ikbal", and, in 1860, of "Fourth Kadın". On 26 February 1855 She give birth two twins daughters, Zekiye and Fehime Sultan. On 30 July 1856, she gave birth to her third child, a daughter, Mediha Sultan.^[5][6] Five years later on 14 January 1861, she gave birth to her fourth child, a son, Şehzade Mehmed Vahideddin (future Mehmed VI). She was the favorite daughter-in-law of Bezmiâlem Sultan.^[7]

Death

She died in 1861, shortly after the birth of her last child.^[8] She was buried in her own mausoleum located in Fatih Mosque, Fatih, Constantinople.^[9]

After her death, her daughter Mediha Sultan was entrusted in the care of Verdicenan Kadın,^[5][10][6] and her son Mehmed was entrusted in the care of Şayeste Hanım.^[8]

Having died before her son ascended the throne, she was never Valide sultan.

Issue

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
Zekiye Sultan	26 February 1855[11][12]	19 February 1856[11][12]	Twin sister of Fehime, buried in Tomb of Gülistü Kadin
Fehime Sultan	26 February 1855[5][12]	10 November 1856[5][12]	Twin sister of Zekiye, buried in Tomb of Gülistü Kadin
Mediha Sultan	30 July 1856[5][13][14]	7 November 1928[15][14]	Married twice, and had issue, a son
Mehmed VI Vahideddin	14 January 1861[13][16]	16 May 1926[16]	36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

In literature

• Gülistü is a character in Hıfzı Topuz's historical novel Abdülmecit: İmparatorluk Çökerken Sarayda 22 Yıl: Roman (2009).^[17]

See also

• Ikbal (title)
• Ottoman Imperial Harem
• List of consorts of the Ottoman sultans