List of unrecognized heirs of the Ottoman dynasty

Subsequent Ottoman princes from different centuries, fled their brothers or whose identity remained uncertain.

Şehzade Orhan Çelebi

Şehzade Orhan, (b.1412- d.29 May 1453), was sent as a hostage to Constantinople together with his sister Fatma. Whether in Constantinople by Constantine XI. supervised and funded by Mehmed II, Prince Orhan, who described himself as a contender for the throne of the sultan Bayezid I, was actually a grandson, and thus belonged to the generation of Mehmed II uncle, is unclear. He committed suicide after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, suicide or was taken on the run and executed on behalf of Mehmed II. Orhan's father was (Şehzade) Kasım Çelebi, (b.1397-d.1417).

Şehzade Orhan Çelebi having had issue, one son and Great get:

• Şehzade Ali Şah
  • Şehzade Cihan Şah
    • Şehzade Vali Han
      • Şehzade Boğa Han

Calixtus Ottomanus

The fact that in Europe, but not in Ottoman sources testified and described alleged heir apparent Bayezid Osman (also Calixtus Ottomanus and Turchetto), who was educated as a child in Constantinople, and as a teenager in Italy, also a son of Murad II, and thus a half brother of Mehmed II, can not be proved. Bayezid Osman was maintained by popes, kings and emperors for decades as possible after a hoped-for victory over Sultan Mehmed II and promoted by Mehmed's death, however, neglected. His seal bore the name "Bajsit Ottman Tvrcorum Emperor" and a crescent moon with four stars. He died unnoticed in 1496.

Cem Sultan

Cem Sultan, (December 22, 1459 – February 25, 1495) was a pretender to the Ottoman throne in the 15th century. He was a son of Mehmed II the Conqueror and younger brother of Sultan Bayezid II. He was banished to Europe, first under the protection of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John on the island of Rhodes and ultimately that of the Pope himself.

Sultan Yahya

Sultan Yahya (1585–1649) was the third son of Ottoman Sultan Murat III. His mother was a princess Elena from the Byzantine Comnenus or Komnenus dynasty of Trebizond, a branch of the Imperial Family of the same name from Constantinople. When his father, Murad, became Sultan, he followed the custom of executing all of his brothers (potential rival claimants to the Ottoman throne). Yahya's mother was concerned that this could also eventually happen to him after the death of his Father, so he was smuggled out, first to Greece, and then to present day Bulgaria. He supposedly was baptized at an Orthodox Christian monastery, where he lived for the next eight years of his life, and take the name Count Alexander of Montenegro. In 1629 he married the Albanian Princess Anna Katharina of Skenderbeg descendnat and had three children together:

• Prince Maurizio
• Prince Alessandro
• Princess Elena (named after his Mother)

Üveys Pasha

He was the eldest son of Selim I, and the half-brother of Suleiman the Magnificent. His mother was a slave, and was removed by intrigues of the harem, and married to another man. It turned out that she was pregnant. When the boy was born and grew up, a great similarity with Selim I, was determined. However, to apply as Ottoman prince, it must be born in the palace and recorded. Üveys received a military education, and later died in 1547 in a campaign in Yemen. At his death, said Suleiman the Magnificent: He was my only brother, my father's son.

Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha

Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha (1689–1758) was an Ottoman grand vizier and the unaccepted son of Sultan Mustafa II. His stepfather Nuh was a Venetian convert who worked in İstanbul as a doctor and his mother Safiye was a former Maid of Sultan Mustafa II.

Zülüflü Ismail Pasha

His mother Hüsni Melek Khanum Effendi (b. 1812; d. October 1886 was a former wife of Sultan Mahmud II and became pregnant with his son Abdülmecid I. He ascended the throne in 1839 at the age of 16. But as any woman of a deceased sultan was sent into exile, there was a scandal.

Mehmed Selim Orhan

Mehmed Selim Orhan de Turquie, (born in Paris, 3. October 1943 as son of Prince Mehmed Orhan and the American/French Actress Marguerite Irma Fournier - deprived since birth of title HIH Şehzade, because Mehmed Selim Orhan was born before his Parents married in 1944. Subsequent investigation has shown since 2011, that he was the stepson of Mehmed Orhan of a Morganatic Marriage. His descendant's are not recognized by the Ottoman Family.

Plamen

Plamen, (born 1960 and died 1995 in Sofia, Bulgaria), son of Şehzade Alaeddin Kadir and Lydia Dimitrova a Bulgarian citizen. He was baptized as an Orthodox Christian.

Note

Eligibility A male person born to parents who are not married to each other at the time of birth is not included in the line of succession and passes no rights to their descendants. The subsequent marriage of the parents does not alter this. At the time of accession, the male heir to the throne must be a Muslim. Any Ottoman Prince who has changend Islam is excluded from the line of succession.