Mehmed Ziyaeddin Efendi

Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin Efendi (; 26 August 1873 – 30 January 1938) was an Ottoman prince, firstborn of Sultan Mehmed V, born by his first consort Kamures Kadın.

Early life Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin was born on 26 August 1873 in his father's villa in Ortaköy Palace. His father was Mehmed V, son of Abdülmecid I and Gülcemal Kadın,

Personal life When Ziyaeddin came of age, Sultan Abdülhamid II, his father's half-brother, decided that he should marry Abdülhamid's daughter Naime Sultan. The wedding never took place because Ziyaeddin and his father rejected the proposal, but, curiously, a daughter of Ziyaeddin, Dürriye Sultan, married Naime Sultan's son, Sultanzade Mehmed Cahid Osman Bey.

Ziyaeddin's first wife was Perniyan Hanım. She was born on 2 January 1880. They married on 5 January 1898, when she was eighteen. In 1900 she gave birth to Behiye Sultan. She was an accomplished calligrapher. When Sultan Mehmed V Reşad happened to notice a work of hers he showed it to one of the calligraphers of that time, who admired it greatly. She hoped to arrange for lessons in calligraphy through Sabit Bey, Sultan Mehmed V Reşad's Master of the Robes, however, court tradition proved an obstacle to her goals, and she had to remain content with having earned the sultan's admiration for her work. Later divorced, She was the daughter of Hüseyin Bey They married on 16 August 1903, She died in 1934 in Alexandria, Egypt, aged 47.

Ziyaeddin's third wife was Perizad Hanım. She was born in 1889. A certain Vedat Bey was her paternal cousin. They married on 18 January 1907, They married in 1911. The following year she gave birth to Şehzade Ömer Fevzi. She was beautiful but hadn't been educated well. Later divorced, she died in 1966 at the age of seventy six.

Ziyaeddin's fifth wife was Neşemend Hanım. They married in 1920, after Ziyaeddin's divorce from Melekseyran. Later in 1923 she gave birth to Mihrimah Sultan. She died in 1934, at aged twenty nine, in Egypt, where she was buried at the city of Helwan.

Later life and death Following the death of his father, Sultan Mehmed Reşad, Prince Ziyaeddin and his family moved to his villa located at Ibrahim Pasha Meadows, visiting Yıldız Palace and Dolmabahçe Palace only on high holidays and official occasions. The villa included three distinct units, each of three stories, so that each wife and her children could occupy their own quarters. Altogether the entourage of Prince Ziyaeddin and his wives totalled thirty-six persons.

Following the establishment of the Turkish Republic and the abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate and the Ottoman Caliphate, the entire Imperial Ottoman family were forced into exile in March 1924. Ziyaeddin and his family settled in Beirut, Lebanon. In 1926, they went to Alexandria, Egypt. In the years before his death, he sailed on a foreign ship and watched Istanbul from the deck, as he could not enter in Turkey. When he tried to disembark as a common tourist, he was taken back to the ship by the Turkish police. He died at the age of sixty four at Alexandria because of tubercuolosis on 30 January 1938 and was buried in the mausoleum of Khedive Tewfik Pasha in Cairo.

Personality Ziyaeddin was often seen with his eccentric modes of dress.

He always kept ties with the poorer classes and never refused them assistance in any way, expending a part of his small income to help the needy people of Kadıköy and environs as well as Üsküdar. He paid for the burial of indigent persons, financially assisted penniless girls who were to be married, and requested his consorts to help in providing them clothing and other items. At the beginning of each month he would distribute an allowance to the needy persons in the neighborhood, insofar as he was capable. Among the Kalfa (servants) in his service there was Nevzad Hanim, who would become the last consort of Sultan Mehmed VI, his father's younger half-brother.

Honours Ottoman honours Order of Osmanieh, 1st Class, 1884; Jeweled, 26 March 1912 Order of the Medjidie, Jeweled, 1909 Liakat Medal, 17 October 1916 Order of Glory, Jeweled, 2 May 1917 Order of the House of Osman Hicaz Demiryolu Medal in Gold

Foreign honours Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 21 November 1911 Order of Karađorđe's Star Grand-Cross of the Order of Leopold, 6 June 1918

Military appointments Honorary military ranks and army appointments February 1916: Cavalry Brigadier, Ottoman Army Aide-de-Camp to the Sultan

Issue

Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin had two sons and six daughters.

Sons Şehzade Mehmed Nazim (22 December 1910 - 11 November 1984) - with Ünsiyar Hanım. Born in Dolmabahçe Palace. He died at Istanbul, Turkey, and buried in tomb of Sultan Mehmed V. He married twice: in 1938 with Perizad Belkis Hanım, which marriage was not recognized by Caliph Abdülmecid II and was annulled in 1944, and with her he had a son, and in 1945 in Cairo with Halime Lima Hanım (16 June 1919 – Cairo, 22 March 2000), granddaughter of Şeyh Ebülhuda Efendi, and with her he had two sons: Şehzade Cengiz (b. 20 November 1939). He married three times, to Eileen Imrie Hanım (b. 1946), and had a daughter and a son: Ayşe Louise Sultan (b. 21 March 1964). Married with Damat William "Bill" Rehm and had two daughters: Peri Kathleen Hanımsultan Rehm (b. 2 June 1994) Zekeriya Hanımsultan Rehm (b. October 1996) Şehzade Mehmed Eric Ziyaeddin (b. 18 April 1966). Married twice, first with a European woman named Kelly Hanım and later with Jackie Marie Hanım, and had two daughters: Donna Sultan Suzanne Sultan Şehzade Hasan Orhan (b. 9 September 1946). He married twice, to Devlet Sue Tolestoa Hanım (b. 27 November 1957), annulated in 1985, and on 9 September 1996 with Malak Seyfallah Ruşdi Hanım (b. 8 July 1960), without issue Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin (b. 17 September 1947). He married twice, on 4 September 1969 with Ghada Habjouga Hanım (b. 1 September 1952), without issue, and on 2 May 1984 with Allison Maddox Hanım (b. 4 December 1951), and had a son and a daughter: Şehzade Nazim (b. 24 September 1985) Nermin Zoé Sultan (b. 30 March 1988) Şehzade Ömer Fevzi (13 November 1912 - 24 April 1986) - with Melekseyran Hanım. Born in Yıldız Palace. In 1946 in Cairo he married Mukaddes Hanım. After her death in 1958, he married Veliye Hanım in 1963. He had no children. He died in Amman, Jordan. Buried in the Mehmed V mausoleum.

Daughters Behiye Sultan (Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, 8 November 1900 - Alexandria, Egypt, 1950) - with Perniyan Hanım. Buried in tomb of Khedive Tewfik. She was married three times: Rukiye Sultan (11 October 1906 - 20 February 1927) - with Ünsiyar Hanım. She married in 1924 Damat Sokolluzâde Abdülbâki Ihsân Bey. With him she had one daughter: Behiye Emel Nuricihan Hanımsultan (Beirut, 15 June 1925 - ?), married and had issue Hayriye Sultan (Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, 16 February 1908 - Beirut, 5 March 1943) - with Perizad Hanım. Died of tuberculosis. Buried in Tewfik Pasha mausoleum. Unmarried and without issue. Lütfiye Sultan (20 April 1910 - 11 June 1997) - with Perizad Hanım. She married in 1932 Damat Hasan Bey. She had two sons and one daughter with him: Sultanzade Ahmed Reşid Bey (7 May 1933 - 1958), unmarried and without issue Sultanzade Reşad Bey (Alexandria, 7 May 1934 - January 2014), unmarried and without issue Perizad Hanımsultan (b. 11 January 1936), married and had issue Mihrimah Sultan (14 April 1923 - 30 March 2000) - with Neşemend Hanım. She married Prince Nâyef, one of the sons of King Abdüllah I of Jordan. She had two sons with him: Prince Sultanzade Ali Bey (b. 10 August 1941) Prince Sultanzade Abubakr Âsım Bey (b. 27 April 1948)

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