Bülbül Hatun

Bülbül Hatun (; died 1515) was a concubine of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire.

Life Her origin is unknown, but the consorts of the Ottoman sultans were by custom normally concubines who came to the Ottoman Imperial harem via the Ottoman slave trade.

Bülbül Hatun entered Bayezid's harem when he was still a prince and the governor of Amasya. She had three children, two daughters, Hatice Sultan and Hundi Sultan, and a son, Şehzade Ahmed.

According to Turkish tradition, all princes were expected to work as provincial governors as a part of their training. Ahmed was sent to Çorum in 1480, and then to Amasya, and Bülbül accompanied him.

She built and endowed a mosque and a soup kitchen in Ladik. At Amasya, she built another mosque, a school and a fountain. In Bursa she had endowed and built a religious college. She endowed a portion of her properties to the Enderun mosque in 1505.

In 1512, she built another complex and endowed a significant amount of property for its expenses. She designated her son Ahmed, and upon his death Ahmed's eldest daughter and her daughters, as the administrator of the endowment. Bülbül's delegation of the regency of the endowment through the matrilineal line after his son Ahmed demonstrated that this endowment was established as a precautionary measure in the event that Ahmed failed in his bid for the sultanate. (Amasya, - 1511), married in 1484 to Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha and had least two sons, Sultanzade Musa Bey and Sultanzade Mustafa Bey, and at least four daughters, Kamerşah Hanimsultan, Hümaşah Hanimsultan, Aynışah Hanımsultan and Mahdümzade Hanımsultan. Şehzade Ahmed (Amasya, 1466 - Yenişehir, 24 March 1513). Governor of Corum (1481-1483) and of Amasya (1483–1513); was the main rival for the throne of his half-brother Selim I.