Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin

Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin
Born(1904-05-19)19 May 1904
Feriye Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died1966(1966-00-00) (aged 61–62)
Beirut, Lebanon
Burial
Cemetery of the Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, Damascus, Syria
Spouse
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(m. 1923; div. 1927)​
Semahat Hanım
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(m. 1928; div. 1956)​
IssueBezmiâlem Mübeccel Sultan
Names
Turkish: Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin
Ottoman Turkish: شهزاده محمد شرف الدین
DynastyOttoman
FatherŞehzade Selim Süleyman
MotherAyşe Tarzıter Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam
Military career
Allegiance Ottoman Empire
Service / branch Ottoman Army
Years of servicec. 1918–1922 (active service)
RankSee list

Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin Efendi (Ottoman Turkish: شهزادہ محمد شرف الدین; 19 May 1904 – 1966) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Şehzade Selim Süleyman and the grandson of Sultan Abdulmejid I.

Early life

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Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin was born on 19 May 1904[1] in the Feriye Palace.[2] His father was Şehzade Selim Süleyman, son of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Serfiraz Hanım and his mother was Ayşe Tarzıter Hanım, an Abkhazia lady from the Barğan-Ipa family. He had one full sister, Emine Naciye Sultan, seven years elder than him, and an elder half-brother, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülhalim.[3][4]

Education and career

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Şerafeddin began his education in the Ihlamur Pavilion. His brother-in-law, Enver Pasha decided that the young princes should receive a military education, and for this purpose he had allocated the Ihlamur Pavilion as the Princes' School. It became compulsory for all princes below the age of fifteen to attend this school. Here besides their military training they were taught literature, history, religion, mathematics, and geometry.[5]

Şerafeddin then attended the school created by the Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna in 1751, known as the Theresian Military Academy along with Şehzade Ömer Faruk, son of Abdulmejid II. Enver Pasha thought they should not be trained in the land of the waltz as "ballroom officers," but instead should proceed to Potsdam, where they would receive a Prussian education and become strong, reliable officers. So they were transferred from Vienna to Potsdam Military Academy in Prussia.[5]

By 1918, he was serving in the Ottoman army as second lieutenant in the infantry.[6]

Personal life

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Şerafeddin had married two times and had one daughter.[4] His first wife was Şükriye Sultan. She was the daughter of the crown prince Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin and Leman Hanım.[7] She was born on 24 February 1906 in her father's villa in Çamlıca.[7] They married on 14 November 1923 in the Nişantaşı Villa.[7] They divorced in 1927.[7] She then married twice, and died on 1 April 1972.[7]

His second wife was Semahet Hanım.[2][8] She was born on 8 October 1911 in Beirut, Lebanon.[4] They married in 1928. She gave birth to the couple's only daughter Bezmiâlem Mübeccel Sultan on 10 May 1929.[4] They divorced in 1956.[4] She died in 1973.[4]

Exile and death

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At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Şerafeddin and his family settled firstly in Paris, France until December 1924.[9] They then went to Cairo, Egypt and finally settled in Beirut, Lebanon, where he died in 1966.[2] He was buried in the cemetery of the Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, Damascus, Syria.[10]

Honours

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Styles of
Şehzade Mehmed Nizameddin
Reference styleHis Imperial Highness
Spoken styleYour Imperial Highness

Military appointments

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Military ranks and appointments

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  • c. 1918: Second Lieutenant in the Infantry, Ottoman Army

Issue

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Şehzade Mehmed Şerafeddin had an only daughter:[11]

  • Bezmiâlem Mübeccel Sultan (10 May 1929 - 1 July 1993) - with Semahet Hanım. Born in Beirut, died in Istanbul, buried in Zincirlikuyu cemetery. She married Ihlan Baransel (1924 - 24 April 1997) in December 1954, Istanbul. She had a son:
    • Sultanzade Cengiz Baransel (n. 1965). He married Shenay Küçük and had a son:
      • Kaan Baransel (n. 1994)

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ Koçu, Reşad Ekrem; Sağlam, Osman Ferid (1912). Musavver nevsâl-i Osmanî. p. 63.
  2. ^ a b c Milanlıoğlu 2011, p. 13 n. 55.
  3. ^ Milanlıoğlu 2011, p. 7.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 13.
  5. ^ a b Bardakçı, Murat (2017). Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-9-774-16837-6.
  6. ^ a b c d Salnâme-i Devlet-i Âliyye-i Osmanîyye, 1333-1334 Sene-i Maliye, 68. Sene. Hilal Matbaası. 1918. pp. 68–69.
  7. ^ a b c d e Ünlü, Hasan (2019). Veliahd Yusuf İzzeddin Efendi (1857-1916) (Thesis). Mimar Sinan Fine Art University Institute of Social Sciences. pp. 23–24.
  8. ^ Vâsıb, Ali; Osmanoğlu, Osman Selaheddin (2004). Bir şehzadenin hâtırâtı: vatan ve menfâda gördüklerim ve işittiklerim. Yapı Kredi Yayınları. YKY. p. 319. ISBN 978-975-08-0878-4.
  9. ^ Milanlıoğlu 2011, p. 126 n. 18.
  10. ^ PAZAN, İbrahim (2014-12-18). "HANEDAN NEREDE ÖLDÜ NEREYE GÖMÜLDÜ?". ibrahimpazan.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  11. ^ Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 13.

Sources

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