ottomanladies:On this day, 6 November 1715, in Ottoman history, Emetullah Râbia Gülnuş Valide Sultan
ottomanladies:On this day, 6 November 1715, in Ottoman history, Emetullah Râbia Gülnuş Valide Sultan died:born around 1642 in Crete, she was kidnapped and taken to the Ottoman palace in the 1650s, where she was given the name Gülnuş. She was most probably the first concubine of Mehmed IV and certainly his most beloved; she was bestowed the rank of Haseki Sultan and used to follow him in his military campaigns, earning the nickname “the itinerant sultana”. Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş was mother to two sultans, Mustafa II and Ahmed III, and probably of two princesses, Hatice and Fatma Emetullah. She exercised great influence in the reigns of her two sons, making her - according to some historians - the last representant of the Sultanate of Women.Gülnuş followed her son Ahmed III to Edirne in the summer of 1715 to greet the army and Grand Vizier Damad Ali Paşa, who had recently re-conquered Morea from the Venetians. Her health continuously deteriorated over a period of several months, as it is recorded in Tarih-i Raşid, and despite the efforts of the best doctors in the empire the queen mother died on 6 November 1715. The funeral prayers were performed in the courtyard of Edirne Palace, at the presence of the sultan, the grand vizier, the ulema and the highest ranking government officials; afterwards, the casket was loaded on a closed carriage and moved to Istanbul.Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Valide Sultan was buried on 9 November 1715 in the mausoleum inside her mosque complex, the Yeni Valide Mosque in Üsküdar, built in her honour by Ahmed III. -- source link
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