Nilüfer Hatun
Nilüfer Hatun ( Turkish نيلوفر خاتون Nilüfer Hatun, IA Nilufer Hatun ) was the wife of the second Ottoman Sultan Orhan I and mother of Sultan Murad third Hüdavendigar and daughter of Christian lords of Yarhisar. Before her conversion to Islam she was probably Nenuphar (Greek for Nymphaeaceae ). About their lives are little known details.
Life
One, according to tradition, she was with the Byzantine lords ( Tekfur ) of Belokoma (now Bilecik ) engaged. Orhan Osman Gazi 's father, the founder of the Ottoman dynasty, should they have Turkish sources, kidnapped in 1299 in order to make it the wife of his then twelve year old son Orhan. The abduction is described in İdris -i Bitlisi and Neşrî. Byzantine sources also do not know.
Nilüfer Hatun was the mother of Sultan Murad third and Süleyman Pasha, the conqueror of Rumelia. According to her, the river Nilüfer, Bursa and a bridge on this river and a dervish monastery is named. The bridge and the monastery is Nilüfer Hatun have donated. Nilüfer Hatun also built a mosque in Bursa in the quarter Darülharp. Murad I had a soup kitchen in 1388 with its name set up in Iznik: Nilüfer Hatun the Imareti. A primary and secondary school in Istanbul / Nisantasi is named after her.
Nilüfer Hatun is buried in the Orhan Gazi Mausoleum in Bursa / Tophane.
The early Ottoman chronicles call them Lulufer / لولوفر and Ulufer / اولوفر.
Films
- Kuruluş / Osmancık ( The founding / Osmancık ), Turkey in 1987, a TRT- production, screenwriting: Tarık Buğra with Sema as Nilüfer Hatun Yunak