Hi, what can you tell us about Kosem’s daughters’ husbands?
Nasuh Paşa: Albanian statesman, he was Grand Vizier from 1611 to his death in 1614. He married Ayşe in 1612, but he was executed on Ahmed I’s orders in 1614 in front of his child bride.
Şehit Karakaş Mehmed Paşa: governor of Buda, they were married in 1620, but the marriage didn’t even last a year.
Hafız Ahmed Paşa: also called Müezzinzade, son of a muezzin. He was a Grand Vizier of Murad IV. They were engaged in 1626, and they got married in 1627. He was lynched by the mob during the revolts of 1632. With Ayşe he had two sons: Sultanzade Mustafa Bey and an unnamed son.
Murtaza Paşa: governor of Diyarbakır, it took him three years to come to Istanbul and marry Ayşe Sultan. He was old and the princess greatly disliked him. He died a year after their marriage in Revan, during Murad IV’s military campaign there.
Silahdar Ahmed Paşa: governor of Şam, they were married in 1639. He died in 1644.
Hezargratlı Voynuk Ahmed Paşa: governor of Adana and later Vizier, he married Ayşe Sultan in 1645, under Ibrahim’s rule, but was exiled to Edirne after he angered the sultan. He died on 28 July 1649.
İbşir Mustafa Paşa: they were engaged in 1655 as a way to bring him to Istanbul. They were married on 28 February 1655, but the Paşa was executed in May 1665.
Çatalcalı Haşan Paşa: Admiral of the Naval Forces, he married Fatma Sultan in 1624 but the marriage was dissolved by Murad IV in 1628, angered by Kosem’s excessive patronage of her son-in-law. They had a son together, Sultanzade Hasan Bey.
Kara Mustafa Paşa: formerly a captain of the Janissaries, he was governor of Egypt in 1624-5. They were married in 1628, but he was executed in the same year by Murad IV.
Canbuladzade Mustafa Paşa: another Grand Admiral, they were married in 1631. He had a daughter from his first marriage, Ayşe Hatun. With Fatma Sultan, he had two sons: Sultanzade Hüseyn Paşa and Sultanzade Süleyman Bey. He was executed by Murad IV in 1636
Koca Yusuf Paşa: district governor, he died in Malkara in 1658. He married Fatma Sultan in 1656.
Gaazi Melek Ahmed Paşa: Kaya Ismihan Sultan’s former husband, Grand Vizier Köprülü Mehmed Paşa married him to a 60-year-old Fatma Sultan, who despised him. He died in 1660 and the princess seized his wealth right away.
Kundakçızade Mustafa Paşa: Fatma married him a year later Ahmed Paşa’s death. He died in 1666.
Kozbekçi Yusuf Paşa: Fatma’s last husband. They were married in 1667.
Bayram Paşa: a Janissaries commander, he later became Grand Vizier. He was married to Hanzade in 1623, when the princess was escorted from the Old Palace by the viziers on foot. He died on 26 August 1638.
(disputed) Nakkaş Mustafa Paşa: a vezier of Ibrahim’s divan, he married Hanzade in 1643 (though Evliya Celebi doesn’t mention a second husband for this princess). He died in 1653, outliving his wife of three years.
Gevherhan Sultan (disputed):
Öküz/Öksüz Kara Mehmed Paşa: Grand Vizier, he married Gevherhan Sultan on 13 June 1612. He was 55 years old, while the princess was just a child. He died in 1620.
Topal Recep Paşa: Grand Admiral of the naval forces, he married Gevherhan in 1623. With her, he had a daughter, Safiye Hanımsultan. He was executed by Murad IV on 18 May 1632.
(disputed) Abaza Siyavuş Paşa: Grand Vizier during Mehmed IV’s reign, he married Gevherhan in 1643, during the reign of Ibrahim I. He died on 25 April 1656.
EDIT: sources:- Yılmaz Öztuna, Sultan Genç Osman ve Sultan IV. Murad- Leslie Peirce, The Imperial Harem- Necdet Sakaoğlu - Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları- M. Çağatay Uluçay - Padişahların Kadınları ve Kızları- A. D. Alderson, The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty
