Ayşe Hatun

Ayşe Hatun (; 1476 – 1539) was a Crimean princess, daughter of Meñli I Giray. She was also a consort of the Ottoman Sultan Selim I.

Biography

Ayşe Hatun was first married in 1504 to Selim's half-brother Şehzade Mehmed, Sanjakbey of Kefe, son of Ferahşad Hatun, and became a widow upon his death in the same year.

Her marriage was one of only two examples of marriages between the Ottoman dynasty and the Giray dynasty; the other one was those, alleged, between a Selim's daughter, maybe Gevherhan Sultan, to Saadet I Giray.

After her first husband's death, the Crimean princess entered in 1511 the harem of her husband's half-brother, the future Sultan Selim I (1512–1520), when he was the governor of Amasya, thus securing for him, in the person of her powerful father, a valuable ally in the prince's struggle for the throne.