He conformed to the Islamic custom of not wearing silk, and never wore silver or gold, which was a largely unenforced requirement. An account by a contemporary who visited his household, Claudio Angelo di Martelli, reports of three sons who survived his death: Yusuf, Mehmed, and the youngest Ali. According to another contemporary report by Giovanni Benaglia, secretary of the Austrian ambassador in Istanbul, he divorced his "beloved Köprülü princess" after their engagement and after they had many children, and gave her to a French renegade, one of his favorites. He had four concubines (Fatma, Emine, Ayşe, Zeynep), and by them at least two sons, Yusuf and Mehmed. A contemporary French account says he had two children with the little Köprülü princess, who both died young, and that his wife died shortly after their death, at 31. It is said that while growing up, differently from his adoptive Köprülü brothers, he disliked alcohol, as well as Europeans and other non-Muslims. He then entered the household of the Sultan as mirahor-i-sani ( master of the horse). Within the household's inner service ( enderun), he held the positions of letter-carrier ( telhisci, or assistant to the grand vizier) to Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, and of silahdar (armourer). ![]() How he entered the family and the details of his marriage are unclear. Possibly as a way to increase his possibilities to start an administrative career, he was introduced into the Köprülü household, where he was educated by Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, and married into the Köprülü family. His father is said to have served under Köprülü Mehmed Pasha. He was born in the village of Mirince/Marınca near Merzifon (now called Karamustafapaşa after him), the son of a sipahi, cavalry man. However, he was brought up in the Köprülü family, of Albanian origin. ![]() Kara Mustafa Pasha was of Turkish origin. Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha ( Ottoman Turkish: مرزيفونلى قره مصطفى پاشا Turkish: Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Paşa "Mustafa Pasha the Courageous of Merzifon" 1634/1635 – 25 December 1683) was an Ottoman nobleman, military figure and Grand Vizier of Turkish origin, who was a central character in the Ottoman Empire's last attempts at expansion into both Central and Eastern Europe.Įarly life and career The Ottoman northern frontier in the seventeenth century, where Kara Mustafa Pasha led his early campaigns.
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