Nefise Hatun

Nefise Hatun , Nefise Sultan , Nefise Melek Hatun or Nefise Melek Sultan Hatun , is one of the girls of Murad I {{er}}, sultan Turkish of XIVe century.

History

His/her father made use of it to try to calm Karamanoglu Alaeddin (ED-DIN Went) Bey, wire and successor of Yakhschi-Beg, sovereign of Karamanie. It Maria thus with this one in 780-1378.

In the first times of the reign of Mourad, Alaeddin, wire and successor of Yakhschi-Beg, to increase the embarrassments that the revolt of the great landowners (alibi) of the Galatie had caused in Mourad, and in order to support the insurrection by a powerful diversion, excited Warsaks to join the rebels Angora; but the catch of this city and the marriage of Nefisé, girl of Mourad, with Alaeddin, restored peace for some time. From this moment, envieux Alaeddin sought all the occasions to break the treaty which linked it with the sovereign of the Othoman . (J. of Hammer, COp cit. )

As it is seen, this union did not have the discounted effect. The hostilities thus began again, with the participation of two of wire of Murad Ier, Yakub Çelebi and Bayézid, brothers thus of Nefise. Overcome, Alaeddin took refuge in Konya. To draw from this bad step, it sent Nefise to his father, charged to beseech the forgiveness of the Sultan.

According to Joseph de Hammer: Mourad had besieged the city for twelve days without to have still dared to deliver the attack, when Alaeddin, penetrated of the dangers of its position, took the party to send his wife in the camp of the Othomans. The sultan yielded to supplications of his daughter and agree to grant peace to Alaeddin, under the condition which it would come, as a sign of tender, to kiss the hand to him. Prince de Karamanie resigned himself to this humiliation which ensured the possession to him of Koniah and all its provinces, and as of this moment peace is restored between the two sovereigns. Lamartine tells the scene with more details: Iconium, besieged for twelve days, had been going to yield to the attacks Othomans; the door opens, a procession in fate, it is the girl of Amurat, the wife of Alaeddin, followed his/her children, who comes to beseech of his father the forgiveness of her husband. Amurat, tenderized by the sight and the tears of his/her daughter, requires of another repair of Alaeddin to only come to kiss the hand to him, as a sign of vasselage, in front of the door of Koniah.

Nefise made build in 1387 the theological university of Karaman.

It had as wire Mehmed II Bey, successor of Alaeddin.

Bibliography (in French)

Joseph de Hammer, History of the Ottoman Empire (1835).
Alphonse of Lamartine, History of Turkey (1851), 6 volumes.

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