Editing Abdul Hamid I (section)

==Family==
Abdülhamid I is famous for having concubines even during the period of confinement in the Kafes, thus violating the rules of the harem. From these relationships at least one daughter was conceived, secretly born and raised outside the Palace until the enthronement of Abdülhamid, when she was accepted at court as the sultan's "adopted daughter".

===Consorts===
Abdülhamid I had at least fourteen consorts:<ref>{{cite book|author=Fanny Davis|title=The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918|year=1986|pages=23|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-24811-5}}</ref><ref name="kocaaslan">{{cite book|first=Murat|last=Kocaaslan|title=I. Abdülhamid'in İstanbul'daki İmar Faaliyetleri|pages=124–5}}</ref><ref name="cunbur">{{cite book|first=Müjgan|last=Cunbur|title=I. Abdülhamid Vakfiyesi Ve Hamidiye Kütüphanesi}}</ref><ref name="ulucay">{{cite book|first=Mustafa Çağatay|last=Uluçay|title=Padişahların kadınları ve kızları|publisher=Ötüken, Ankara|year=2011|pages=105–9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Ahmet|last=Tabakoğlu|title=İstanbul su külliyâtı: İstanbul şer'iyye sicilleri : Mâ-i Lezı̂z defterleri 2 (1791-1794)|publisher=İstanbul Araştırmaları Merkezi|year=1998|pages=147}}</ref><ref name="fikret">{{cite book|first=Fikret|last=Sarıcaoğlu|title=Kendi kaleminden bir Padişahın portresi Sultan I. Abdülhamid (1774-1789)|publisher=Tatav, Tarih ve Tabiat Vakfı|year=2001|pages=17–18|isbn=978-9-756-59601-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Mehmet|last1=Raif|first2=Günay|last2=Kut|first3=Hatice|last3=Aynur|title=Mirʼât-ı İstanbul|publisher=felik Gülersoy Vakfı|year=1996|pages=99}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Hafız Hüseyin|last1=Ayvansarai|first2=Vâhid|last2=Çabuk|title=Mecmuâ- i tevârih|publisher=İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi|year=1985|pages=261}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Mehmet Nermi|last=Haskan|title=Yüzyıllar boyunca Üsküdar - Volume 2|publisher=Üsküdar Belediyesi|year=2001|pages=758|isbn=978-9-759-76060-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Mehmet|last=Ziya|title=Istanbul ve Boğaziçi: Bizans ve Osmanlı medeniyetlerinin Ölümsüz Mirası, Volume 1|publisher=BIKA|year=2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Ahmet|last1=Kal'a|first2=Ahmet|last2=Tabakoğlu|title=İstanbul su külliyâtı. 16 : İstanbul şer'iyye sicilleri mâ-i lezîz defterleri. (1813 - 1817)|publisher=İstanbul Araştırmaları Merkezi|year=2000|pages=97}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Fikret|last=Sarıcaoğlu|title=Kendi kaleminden bir Padişahın portresi Sultan I. Abdülhamid (1774-1789)|publisher=Tatav, Tarih ve Tabiat Vakfı|year=2001|pages=8|isbn=978-9-756-59601-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Ahmet|last=Tabakoğlu|title=İstanbul su külliyâtı: İstanbul şer'iyye sicilleri : Mâ-i Lezı̂z defterleri 1 (1786-1791), Volume 3|publisher=İstanbul Araştırmaları Merkezi|year=1998|pages=229}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Ahmet|last=Tabakoğlu|title=İstanbul su külliyâtı: İstanbul şer'iyye sicilleri : Mâ-i Lezı̂z defterleri 1 (1786-1791), Volume 3|publisher=İstanbul Araştırmaları Merkezi|year=1998|pages=153}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061025090840/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jwh/17.2/isomverhaaren.html#FOOT1 Christine Isom-Verhaaren] ''Royal French Women in the Ottoman Sultans' Harem: The Political Uses of Fabricated Accounts from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century'', ''[[Journal of World History]]'', vol. 17, No. 2, 2006.</ref>

*Ayşe Kadın. [[Kadın (title)|BaşKadin]] (first consort) until her death in 1775. She was buried in [[New Mosque (Istanbul)|Yeni Cami]].
* Hace Hatice Ruhşah Kadın. BaşKadin after Ayşe's death. She was Abdulhamid's most beloved consort. She was his concubine even before he became sultan. Five incredibly intense love letters that the sultan wrote to her around that time have been preserved. Mother of at least a son. After Abdülhamid's death she made the pilgrimage to [[Mecca]] by proxy, which earned her the name "''[[Hajji|Hace]]''". She died in 1808 and was buried in [[Türbe|mausoleum]] Abdülhamid I.
*[[Binnaz Kadın]] ({{Circa}}1743 - May/June 1823), also known as Beynaz Kadın. She had previously been the consort of Abdulhamid's predecessor, [[Mustafa III]]. With no children of either of them, after Abdülhamid's death she married Çayırzade İbrahim Ağa. She was buried in the garden of the Hamidiye Mausoleum.
*Nevres Kadın. Before she became a consort she was the treasurer of the [[Ottoman imperial harem|harem]]. She died in 1797.
*[[Sineperver Sultan|Ayşe Sineperver Kadın]]. She is the mother of at least two sons, including [[Mustafa IV]], and two daughters. She was [[Valide sultan]] for less than a year before the deposition of her son, and spent the rest of her life in her daughter's palace. She died on 11 December 1828.
*Mehtabe Kadın. Initially a [[Kalfa]] (servant) of the harem, she became consort through the favour of [[Kizlar Agha|kızları agasi]] Beşir Ağa. She died in 1807.
*Muteber Kadın. Called also Mutebere Kadın. Mother of at least a son. Her personal seal read: “'' Devletlü beşinci Muteber Kadın Hazretleri ''”. She died on 16 May 1837 and was buried in the Abdülhamid I mausoleum.
*[[Şebsefa Kadın|Fatma Şebsefa Kadın]]. Also called Şebisefa, Şebsafa or Şebisafa Kadin. Mother of at least a son and three daughters. She owned farms in [[Thessaloniki]], which she left to her daughter when she died in 1805. She was buried near the [[Zeyrek Mosque]].
*[[Nakşidil Sultan|Nakşidil Kadın]]. Originally Georgian or [[Circassians|Circassian]], she became famous for the disproved legend that she was actually the disappeared [[Aimée du Buc de Rivéry]], distant cousin of the Empress [[Empress Joséphine|Josephine Bonaparte]]. She is a mother of two sons and a daughter, including [[Mahmud II]]. She died on 22 August 1817 and was buried in her mausoleum inside her [[Fatih Mosque]].
*Hümaşah Kadın. Mother of at least a son, she built a fountain near Dolmabahçe and another in Emirgân. She died in 1778 and was buried in the Yeni Cami.
*Dilpezir Kadın. She died in 1809 and was buried in the garden of the Hamidiye Mausoleum.
*Mislinayab Kadın. She was buried in the Nakşıdil Valide Sultan mausoleum.
*Mihriban Kadın. Misidentified by Oztüna as Esma Sultan's mother, she died in 1812 and was buried in [[Edirne]].
*Nükhetseza Hanım. BaşIkbal, she was the youngest consort. She died in 1851.

===Sons===
Abdülhamid I had at least eleven sons:<ref>Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kizları . Ötüken, Ankara. pp. 105–9.</ref><ref>Sarıcaoğlu, Fikret (2001). Kendi kaleminden bir Padişahın portresi Sultan I. Abdülhamid (1774-1789) . Tatav, Tarih ve Tabiat Vakfi. pagine 11-13, 17–18. ISBN 978-9-756-59601-2.</ref><ref>Haskan 2018, p. 74-76, 84</ref><ref>Abanoz, Fatih (2013). GÜLŞEHİR'İN BİR DEĞERİ "SİLAHDAR (KARAVEZİR) SEYYİD MEHMET PAŞA" HAYATI ve ESERLERİ . p. 118.</ref><ref>Barita, Örcün (2000). Osmanlı İmparatorluğu dönemi İstanbul'undan kuşevleri . Kültür Bakanlığı. p. 223. ISBN 978-9-751-72535-6.</ref>
* Şehzade Abdüllah (1 January 1776 - 1 January 1776). Born dead, he was buried in [[New Mosque (Istanbul)|Yeni Cami]]. 
* Şehzade Mehmed (22 August 1776 - 20 February 1781) - with Hümaşah Kadın. Died of smallpox, he was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum.
* Şehzade Ahmed (8 December 1776 - 18 November 1778) - with Ayşe Sineperver Kadın. Buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum. 
* Şehzade Abdürrahman (8 September 1777 - 8 September 1777). Born dead, he was buried in the Yeni Cami. 
* Şehzade Süleyman (13 March 1778 - 19 January 1786) - with Muteber Kadın. Died of smallpox, he was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum. 
* Şehzade Ahmed (1779 - 1780). He was buried in the Yeni Cami. 
* Şehzade Abdülaziz (19 June 1779 - 19 June 1779) - with Ruhşah Kadin. Born dead, he was buried in the Yeni Cami. 
* [[Mustafa IV]] (8 September 1779 - 16 November 1808) - with Ayşe Sineperver Kadın. 29th [[Ottoman Sultans|Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]], was executed after less than a year. 
* Şehzade Mehmed Nusret (20 September 1782 - 23 October 1785) - with Şebsefa Kadın. Her mother dedicated a mosque to his memory. He was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum.
* Şehzade Seyfullah Murad (22 October 1783 - 21 January 1785) - with Nakşidil Kadin. He was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum. 
* [[Mahmud II]] (20 July 1785 - 1 July 1839) - with Nakşidil Kadin. 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

===Daughters===
Abdülhamid I had at least sixteen daughters:<ref>Ulçay 2011, p. 105-109, 166-169.</ref><ref>Sarıcaoğlu 1997, p. 11-14.</ref><ref>Kal'a, Ahmet; Tabakoğlu, Ahmet (2002). Vakif on defterleri. Istanbul Araştırmaları Merkezi. p. 182.</ref><ref>Haskan 2018, p. 74-77, 84.</ref>
* [[Dürrüşehvar Hanım|Ayşe Athermelik Dürrüşehvar Hanım]] ({{Circa}}1767 - 11 May 1826). Called also Athermelek. She was conceived while her father was still [[Şehzade]] and confined in the [[Kafes]], thus violating the rules of the [[Ottoman imperial harem|harem]]. Her mother was smuggled out of the palace and her birth kept secret, otherwise both would have been killed. When Abdülhamid, who adored her, ascended the throne, he returned her to court with the status of "adopted daughter", which gave her the rank of imperial princess as the other daughters, but he could not grant her the title of "Sultan", so she never came. fully equal to the stepsisters. She married once and had two daughters.
* Hatice Sultan (12 January 1776 - 8 November 1776). First daughter born after her father's accession to the throne, her birth was celebrated for ten days. She was buried in the [[New Mosque (Istanbul)|Yeni Cami]].
* Ayşe Sultan (30 July 1777 - 9 September 1777). She was buried in the Yeni Cami.
* [[Esma Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid I)|Esma Sultan]] (17 July 1778 - 4 June 1848) - with Ayşe Sineperver Kadın. She nicknamed Küçük Esma (Esma '' the younger '') to distinguish her from her aunt, [[Esma Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III)|Esma '' the eldest'']]. Close to her brother Mustafa IV, she attempted to put him back on the throne with the help of their half-sister Hibetullah Sultan, but eventually she became the new sultan's favorite sister, his half-brother Mahmud II, which gave her a degree of freedom never before granted to a princess. She married once but had no children.
* Melekşah Sultan (19 February 1779 - 1780).
* Rabia Sultan (20 March 1780 - 28 June 1780). She was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum.
* Aynışah Sultan (9 July 1780 - 28 July 1780). She was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum.
* Melekşah Sultan (28 January 1781 - 24 December 1781). She was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum.
* Rabia Sultan (10 August 1781 - 3 October 1782). She was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum.
* Fatma Sultan (12 December 1782 - 11 January 1786) - with Ayşe Sineperver Kadın. Died of smallpox, she was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum. A fountain was dedicated to her memory.
* Hatice Sultan (6 October 1784 - 1784).
* Alemşah Sultan (11 October 1784 - 10 March 1786) - with Şebsefa Kadın. Her birth was celebrated for three days. She was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum.
* Saliha Sultan (27 November 1786 - 10 April 1788) - with Nakşidil Kadin. She was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum.
* Emine Sultan (4 February 1788 - 9 March 1791) - with Şebsefa Kadın. Her father strongly hoped she would live and showered her with gifts, including the properties of her later aunt [[Esma Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III)|Esma Sultan]] and a court of Chechen entertainers. She died of smallpox and was buried in the Hamidiye mausoleum.
* Zekiye Sultan (? - 20 March 1788). She died in infancy. 
* [[Hibetullah Sultan]] (16 March 1789 - 19 September 1841) - with Şebsefa Kadın. She married once but had no children. She collaborated with her half-sister Esma Sultan to restore Mustafa IV, Esma's brother and Hibetullah's half-brother, to the throne, but she was discovered by Mahmud II, the new sultan and also their half-brother, and placed under house arrest for life, unable to communicate with anybody.