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Bayram Pasha

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Bayram
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
In office
2 February 1637  26 August 1638
MonarchMurad IV
Preceded byTabanıyassı Mehmed Pasha
Succeeded byTayyar Mehmed Pasha
Ottoman Governor of Egypt
In office
1626–1628
Preceded byKara Mustafa Pasha
Succeeded byTabanıyassı Mehmed Pasha
Personal details
Born
Died(1638-08-26)26 August 1638
Spouse
(m. 1623)
ChildrenFülane Hanımsultan

Ladikli Damat Bayram Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: بایرام پاشا, died 26 August 1638) was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1637 to 1638 and the Ottoman governor of Egypt from 1626 to 1628.

Life

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Bayram, was from Ladik, near the Anatolian city of Samsun.[1] He was of Turkish origin.[2] In 1622, his title was turnacıbaşı (chief of recruiting teams), and in 1623, the kethüda (chamberlain). In 1625, he was appointed to Egypt (then an Ottoman territory) as the beylerbey (governor-general). In 1628, he was promoted to the rank of vizier. In 1635, Bayram Pasha was the kaymakam (a title almost equivalent to modern mayor) of the Ottoman capital, Constantinople. In 1637, during the reign of Murad IV (1623–1640), he was promoted to the rank of grand vizier, the highest office in the empire next to that of the sultan. Bayram Pasha participated in the Baghdad campaign led by the sultan. He died (of natural causes) near Urfa.[3]

As a groom

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Bayram was also a damat (groom) of the palace. In Ottoman tradition, the daughters and sisters of the sultans usually married viziers. But Bayram's case was an exception, because Bayram was married to Hanzade Sultan, the daughter of Ahmed I (1603–1617) in 1623 while he was still a turnacıbaşı. They had a daughter.[4]

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See also

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References

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  1. YUSUF HALAÇOĞLU, BAYRAM PAŞA (ö. 1048/1638)Osmanlı vezîriâzamı.
  2. Uzunçarsılı, İsmail Hakkı, (1954) Osmanlı Tarihi III. pp.385 . 386
  3. On line history (in Turkish) Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Tezcan, Baki (November 2001). Searching for Osman: A reassessment of the deposition of the Ottoman Sultan Osman II (1618–1622). pp. 334 n. 58.