Asporça Hatun

Asporça Hatun (c. 1300 – c. 1362, birth name Princess Asporsha) was the second wife of Ottoman Sultan Orhan Gazi and the mother of Şehzade Ibrahim, Fatma Hatun and Selcuk Hatun of the Ottoman Empire.

The parentage of Asporça Hatun is a matter of controversy. According to some sources she was the daughter of Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos and his wife Anna of Savoy. However, it is highly importable as the birth dates of Andronikos III Palaiologos and Asporça Hatun are nearly the same. It is possible that she was the daughter of Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos.

In 1316 Orhan married Princess Asporsha for the location of the Byzantine Empire, but in spite of the marriage, the war continued. After her marriage she converted to Islam like her fellow consort Nilüfer Hatun, and in the same year she gave birth to Şehzade Ibrahim, governor of Eskişehir who was executed by order of his half-brother Murad I, which was followed by the birth of Princesses Fatma Hatun and Selcuk Hatun. Nothing else is known about her except that Osman granted this daughter-in-law several villages, which she then deeded to her descendants in 1323, making her son her executor.

She died in 1362 and was buried in the türbe (tomb) with her husband, Orhan and her fellow consort Nilüfer Hatun, called Gümüşlü Kumbet in Bursa.