Editing Osman II (section)

===Consorts===
Osman II had at least four consorts:<ref name="auto">{{Cite book |last=Tezcan |first=Baki |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/458582838 |title=The second Ottoman Empire : political and social transformation in the early modern world |date=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-51949-6 |location=New York |oclc=458582838}}</ref>
*[[Ayşe Sultan (Haseki of Osman II)|Ayşe Sultan]] or Ayşe Hatun. Nothing is known about her except her name and her role is controversial. According to some historians like Leslie Pierce, she was Osman's [[Haseki]], but according to others, like Pitemberg, she wasn’t. Finally, some historians identify her as Pertev Mehmed's granddaughter, and therefore as a free woman and Osman's first legal wife. She died in [[Eski Saray|Old Palace]] in 1640.<ref name="peirce">{{cite book|first=Leslie P.|last=Peirce|title=The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1993|pages=[https://archive.org/details/imperialharemwom00peir/page/106 106]|isbn=978-0-195-08677-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/imperialharemwom00peir/page/106}}</ref><ref name=":0">Gabriel Piterberg (2003). An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. University of California Press. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-520-93005-6</ref>
* [[Meylişah Hatun]], also called Meleksima Hatun, Mehlikaya Hatun or Mehlika Hatun. Before entering the harem she was a slave of the [[Grand vizier|Grand Vizier]] [[Kuyucu Murad Pasha|Kuyucu Murad Paşah]]. Favorite of Osman, maybe Russian, and mother of his eldest son, Şehzade Ömer. According to a minor version, after Kuyucu Murad's death, she was freed and adopted by the [[Kizlar Agha|kızları agasi]], and was therefore a free woman when she met Osman, who therefore married her legally in order to have her. She was his most beloved and influential consort.
*''Fülane'' Hatun. The unnamed daughter of an astrologer and granddaughter of Pertev Mehmed Pasha, she was a free muslim woman and Osman's first legal wife. Some identify her with Ayşe Sultan/Hatun, but her identity is not yet known with certainty. Their marriage on 7 February 1622 was extremely controversial, because contrary to the tradition for a sultan marrying a muslim ottoman woman of free birth.<ref name="tezcan">{{cite book|first=Baki|last=Tezcan|title=Searching For Osman: A Reassessment Of The Deposition Of Ottoman Sultan Osman II (1618-1622)|year=2001|pages=377 n. 93}}</ref>
* [[Akile Hatun|Rukiye Akile Hatun]], daughter of [[Şeyhülislam]] [[Hocazade Esad Efendi]], she was a free muslim woman and Osman's second legal wife.<ref name="peirce" /><ref name="tezcan" />
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