Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha

For other people named Siyavuş Pasha, see Siyavuş Pasha (disambiguation).

Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: کانیجلی سیاوش پاشا, Serbo-Croatian: Sijavuš-paša Kanjižanin, died 1602, Istanbul) was an Ottoman statesman from the Sanjak of Bosnia. He was Grand Vizier between 24 December 1582 and 28 July 1584,^[1] 15 April 1586 and 2 April 1589,^[2] and 4 April 1592 and 28 January 1593.^[2] He was from Kanizsa in modern-day Hungary, then part of first the Sanjak and then the Eyalet of Bosnia.^[3]

Mausoleum of Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha in Eyüp, Istanbul, Turkey.

Marriage and issue

In 1573 he married Fatma Sultan, the youngest daughter of Sultan Selim II and Nurbanu Sultan.

They had four sons and a daughter:

• Sultanzade Ahmed Bey (1573 – 1582/1583)
• Sultanzade Mustafa Paşah (1575 – April 1599). He had issue.
• Sultanzade Abdülkaadir Bey (1577 – 1583)
• Sultanzade Süleyman Bey (1579 – 1583)
• Fülane Hanımsultan (October 1580 – October 1580). She birth before the time and died three days after. Her mother died in childbirth.

See also

• List of Ottoman grand viziers