Ottoman  Empires

AHMED I

(Achmed I)
 

1603 - 1617

 

Father Name	: Mehmed III
Mother Name	: Handan Sultan
Date of Birth	: 18 April 1590
Date of Death	: 21-22 November 1617
Reign	: 21 December 1603 - 1617

  BIOGRAPHY

Sultan Ahmed I was born on 18th April 1590 in Manisa. His father was Sultan Mehmet III, his mother was Handan Sultana. He was very well educated, he had spoken Arabic and Persian fluently. He was a very brilliant rider, and a fencer. He was a successful soldier and he was very fond of archery and hunting. He had dressed up so modest. He came to throne after his father’s death on 21st December 1603. Sultan Ahmed I was the first sovereign who organised the administrative regulations since Suleyman the Magnificent. He was a political genius, although he ascended throne very young he administrated the empire very successfully.

In Sultan Ahmed’s life the number 14 was important. He came to throne in the age of 14, he reigned for 14 years and he was the 14th sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

He had died at the age of 28 because of typhus (22nd November 1617.

Sons: Osman II, Murad IV, Ibrahim, Bayezid, Suleyman, Kasim, Mehmed, Hasan, Selim, Hanzade, Ubeyde
Daughters: Gevherhan, Ayse, Fatma, Atike

On 4th January 1610, the foundation of famous Sultanahmet Mosque was laid. Sultan himself worked as a labourer. The mosque was completed in June 1617. The other mosques built in his period are; Istanbul Mesih Pasha Mosque, Piyale Pasha Mosque, Omer Pasha Mosque.
 

Celal of Yozgat revolted with his thousands of supporters during the period of Selim I. This revolt had been repressed but conflicts in Anatolia had continued. In Ahmed’s period these revolts appeared again. Tavil Ahmed, Canbolatoglu, Kalenderoglu and Deli Hasan had revolted. Grand vizier Kuyucu Murad Pasha was a very strict soldier and he was rather cruel. He repressed these revolts so violently. He killed even the innocent people, but he ended the revolt.