Bidar Kadın

Bidar Kadın (Ottoman Turkish: بیدار قادین; Kabardian: Талъостэн Бидэр; 5 May 1855 – 13 January 1918; meaning "Attentive, enlightened" in Persian) was the fourth consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.[1]

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Bidar, the title is Kadın, and there is no family name.
Bidar Kadın
Born5 May 1855
Kobuleti
Died13 January 1918(1918-01-13) (aged 62)
Erenköy Mansion, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Mausoleum, Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul
Spouse
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(m. 1875; died 1918)​
Issue
Names
Turkish: Bidar Kadın
Ottoman Turkish: بیدار قادین
Kabardian: Талъостэн Бидэр
HouseTalhosten (by birth)
Ottoman (by marriage)
FatherPrince Talhosten Ibrahim Bey
MotherPrincess Şahika İffet Hanım Lortkipanidze
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Of Kabardian Circassian origin,[2][3] Bidar Kadın was born on 5 May 1855 in Kobuleti.[4] She was daughter of the prince Ibrahim Talustan Bey and his wife, Georgian princess Şahika İffet Lortkipanidze and had two brothers named Çerkeş Hüseyin Paşa and Çerkes Mehmed Ziya Pasha, who worked at the Sultan Palace.[3][5][6] Her mother belonged to the Georgian noble family, Lortkipanidze.[7] She was also related to Prince Hüseyin Bey Inalipa by maternal side.[5]

Marriage

Bidar married the then-Prince Abdul Hamid on 2 September 1875. He was fascinated by her beauty and her bold personality.[4] In late 1875, or early 1876, she became pregnant with the couple's first child. After Abdul Hamid's accession to the throne following the deposition of his elder brother Sultan Murad V, on 31 August 1876,[8] she was given the title of "Fourth Kadın".[1][2]

Bidar who was pregnant at that time, gave birth to her first child, a daughter, five days later on 4 September 1876. The child was named Fatma Naime Sultan,[9] whom Abdul Hamid called "my Accession daughter."[10] In 1877, Bidar and other members of the imperial family settled in the Yıldız Palace,[11] after Abdul Hamid moved there on 7 April 1877.[12] Here she gave birth to her second child, a son, named Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, on 16 January 1878.[13] In 1879, she was elevated to "Third Kadın".[2]

Bidar was described as the most beautiful and fascinating of Abdülhamid II's consorts. She was tall and slender, with long brown hair and intense green eyes. Her beauty was famous also in Europe.[14]

On 30 September 1889, she met with the German Empress Augusta Victoria in the harem of the Yıldız Palace, when the latter visited Istanbul with her husband Emperor Wilhelm II. On this occasion the countess Mathilde von Keller, lady-in-waiting to the empress, described her as "...the sultana[15] had a beautiful face but looked extremely miserable to this day. I can't forget her expression" [16] In 1895,[2] she was elevated to "Second Kadın".[1] In October 1898,[17] she again met Empress Augusta Victoria in the grand salon of the Imperial Lodge of the Yıldız Palace, when the latter visited Istanbul for a second time with her husband. On that occasion the empress herself asked to see Bidar and noticed the beauty of Bidar and her white dress, and Bidar's fame in Europe grew.[18]

On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Thessaloniki.[19] Her followed him with her brother Mehmed Ziya Pasha. After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace, where he died in 1918.[20] She settled in a mansion in Fenerbahçe and later in Erenköy Palace.[21]

Death

Bidar Kadın died on 13 January 1918 at the age of sixty-three, in Erenköy Palace, of a disease related to intestinal inflammation, ten months after the death of Sultan Abdul Hamid.[14] She was buried in the mausoleum of Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin, Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul. A few months later the Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma, visiting Istanbul, asked Sultan Mehmed V to be able to see the famous Bidar, but unfortunately she was already dead. [1][22]

Issue
NameBirthDeathNotes
Fatma Naime Sultan 5 September 1876[9][23][24] c. 1945[9][23][24] married twice, and had issue, one son and one daughter
Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir 16 January 1878[1][13][25] 16 March 1944[13][25] married seven times, and had issue, five sons and two daughters

See also

References
  1. Uluçay 2011, p. 247.
  2. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 674.
  3. Osmanoğlu 2000, p. 149.
  4. Brookes 2010, p. 279.
  5. Açba 2004, p. 52.
  6. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 676.
  7. Aredba, Rumeysa; Açba, Edadil (2009). Sultan Vahdeddin'in San Remo günleri. Timaş Yayınları. p. 47. ISBN 978-9-752-63955-3.
  8. Clare, Israel Smith (1885). Illustrated Universal History: Being a Clear and Concise History of All Nations. P. W. Ziegler & Company. p. 549.
  9. Brookes 2010, p. 285.
  10. Brookes 2010, p. 159.
  11. Oriental Gardens: An Illustrated History. Chronicle Books. 1992. pp. 21. ISBN 978-0-811-80132-4.
  12. NewSpot, Volumes 13-24. General Directorate of Press and Information. 1999.
  13. Brookes 2010, p. 277.
  14. Bağce, Betül Kübra (2008). II. Abdulhamid kızı Naime Sultan'in Hayati. pp. 16–17.
  15. In reality, Bidar, like all the other Ottoman consorts with the exception of the Haseki Sultan, a title which disappeared in the seventeenth century, never wore the title of Sultana, but Europeans, who were not familiar with Ottoman titles, used to refer to the consorts of a Sultan with the phenminyl form "sultana", at European style.
  16. Açba 2004, p. 27.
  17. Hidden, Alexander W. (1912). The Ottoman Dynasty: A History of the Sultans of Turkey from the Earliest Authentic Record to the Present Time, with Notes on the Manners and Customs of the People. N. W. Hidden. p. 417.
  18. Brookes 2010, p. 165, n. 9.
  19. Hall, Richard C. (October 9, 2014). War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-610-69031-7.
  20. Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroatian heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.
  21. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 675.
  22. Açba 2004, p. 53.
  23. Uluçay 2011, pp. 254–255.
  24. Osmanoğlu 2000, p. 261.
  25. Osmanoğlu 2000, pp. 261–262.
  26. Payitaht: Abdülhamid (TV Series 2017– ), retrieved 2018-09-30

Sources
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