Gündüz Alp was the likely father of
Ertuğrul
Ertuğrul or Ertuğrul Gazi ( ota, ارطغرل, Erṭoġrıl; tk, ; died ) was a 13th century bey, who was the father of Osman I. Little is known about Ertuğrul's life. According to Ottoman tradition, he was the son of Suleyman Shah, the ...
(13th century) and grandfather of
Osman I
Osman I or Osman Ghazi ( ota, عثمان غازى, translit= ʿOsmān Ġāzī; tr, I. Osman or ''Osman Gazi''; died 1323/4), sometimes transliterated archaically as Othman, was the founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as the Ottoman Bey ...
, the founder of the
Ottoman Dynasty.
According to some sources, the name of one of the sons of Ertuğrul was also Gündüz Alp,
and thus the brother of Osman I.
Ottoman histories, written around the 15th century, differ in details about Osman I's ancestry.
Gündüz in the family tree of Ertuğrul and Osman I
The grandfather of Osman I is mentioned in various sources as
Süleyman Şâh, Gündüz Alp and Gök Alp.
According to 15th century Ottoman writers
Enveri and
Karamani Mehmet Pasha,
Gündüz Alp was the father of Ertuğrul.
Yazıcızâde Âli's ''
Tevârih-i Al-i Selçuk'' (15th century)
indicated Gök Alp, the brother of Gündüz Alp as the father of Ertuğrul. Some other writers in their published works like 15th century historians;
Şükrullah
Şükrullah was a 15th-century Ottoman historian and diplomat.The Oxford History of Historical Writing Volume 3: 1400–1800'' José Rabasa,D. Daniel R. Woolf, p. 196, 2011 by Oxford University Press He was one of the earliest Ottoman historians. ...
's '',''
Hasan bin Mahmûd el-Bayâtî's ''Câm-ı Cem-Âyîn,''
Âşıkpaşazâde's ''History of Âşıkpaşazâde,''
Neşri
Mevlânâ Mehmed Neşri (born c. 1450 – died 1520?), also commonly referred to as Neshri ( ota, نشري), was an Ottoman historian, a prominent representative of the early Ottoman historiography.
Very little is known about Neşri, which sugg ...
's '
and early 16th century
Oruç Bey's ' had asserted that Süleyman Şah was the father of Ertuğrul. Historian
Halil İnalcık
Halil İnalcık (7 September 1916 – 25 July 2016) was a Turkish historian. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the Ottoman Empire. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed h ...
argued that the latter have confused Süleyman Şah with the grandfather of Gündüz Alp, namely Mir Süleymân Alp.
Three coins which read "Osman bin Ertuğrul bin Gündüz Alp" supports the view that Gündüz was Ertuğrul's father.
Family tree in
Yazıcızâde Âli's ''
Tevârih-i Al-i Selçuk:''
[İnalcık, Halil, 2007; sf. 486.]
Family tree in
Enverî's ''
Düstûrnâme-i Enverî:''
[İnalcık, Halil, 2007; sf. 487.][ Enverî, ''Düstûrnâme-i Enverî,'' pp. 78-80, 1464.]
Erhan Afyoncu
Erhan Afyoncu (born 1967, in Tokat) is a Turkish historian, writer, academician, television programmer and columnist. Rector of the National Defense University.
Personal life
He saw his primary and secondary education in Tokat, the place of birth. ...
claims that "Mir Süleymân Alp" in the family tree above is the ''
Amir
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of
İznik
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or
Antakya
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"Suleiman ibn Qutulmish."''
Family tree according to
Karamani Mehmet Pasha:
Family tree in
Şükrullah
Şükrullah was a 15th-century Ottoman historian and diplomat.The Oxford History of Historical Writing Volume 3: 1400–1800'' José Rabasa,D. Daniel R. Woolf, p. 196, 2011 by Oxford University Press He was one of the earliest Ottoman historians. ...
's ''
Behcetü't Tevârîh:''
Family tree in
Hasan bin Mahmûd el-Bayâtî's ''
Câm-ı Cem-Âyîn'':
[İnalcık, Halil, 2007; sf. 488.]
Family tree in
Âşıkpaşazâde's ''
History of Âşıkpaşazâde'':
[İnalcık, Halil, 2007; sf. 489.]
Âşıkpaşazâde, in chapter fourteenth of ''
The History of Âşıkpaşazâde,'' argues that
Osman I
Osman I or Osman Ghazi ( ota, عثمان غازى, translit= ʿOsmān Ġāzī; tr, I. Osman or ''Osman Gazi''; died 1323/4), sometimes transliterated archaically as Othman, was the founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as the Ottoman Bey ...
put forward that he had descended from ''Gökalp'' and ''"
Suleiman ibn Qutulmish
Suleiman Shah I ibn Qutalmish (; 1ca, سُلَیمانشاہ بن قُتَلمِش; fa, سلیمان بن قتلمش) founded an independent Seljuk Turkish state in Anatolia and ruled as Seljuk Sultan of Rûm from 1077 until his death in 10 ...
"''
the founder
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of
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instead of ''"
Süleyman Şah ibn
Kaya Alp
Kaya Alp ( ota, قایا الپ, lit=Brave Rock) was, according to Ottoman tradition, the son of Kızıl Buğa ''or'' Basuk and the father of Suleyman Shah. He was the grandfather of Ertuğrul Ghazi, the father of the founder of the Ottoman Empi ...
".''
[ Âşıkpaşazâde, '' History of Âşıkpaşazâde;'' & ] According to
Erhan Afyoncu
Erhan Afyoncu (born 1967, in Tokat) is a Turkish historian, writer, academician, television programmer and columnist. Rector of the National Defense University.
Personal life
He saw his primary and secondary education in Tokat, the place of birth. ...
, the identity of ''
Süleyman Şah'' in the
Tomb of Suleyman Shah
The Tomb of Suleyman Shah ( ar, ضريح سليمان شاه; tr, Süleyman Şah Türbesi) is, according to Ottoman tradition, the grave (tomb, mausoleum) housing the relics of Suleyman Shah (c. 1178–1236), grandfather of Osman I (d. 1323/4), t ...
is unidentified. He also defends that the father of ''
Ertuğrul
Ertuğrul or Ertuğrul Gazi ( ota, ارطغرل, Erṭoġrıl; tk, ; died ) was a 13th century bey, who was the father of Osman I. Little is known about Ertuğrul's life. According to Ottoman tradition, he was the son of Suleyman Shah, the ...
'' according to the recent investigations is ''Gündüz Alp.''
Family tree in
Neşrî's ''
Kitâb-ı Cihannümâ'':
[İnalcık, Halil, 2007; sf. 490.]
Father of Ertuğrul
Three coins minted by Osman I in
Yenişehir-
Bursa during his reign which reads "Osman bin Ertuğrul bin Gündüz Alp" showed that the name of the father of Ertuğrul was Gündüz.
Many contemporary history professors like
İlber Ortaylı
İlber Ortaylı (born 21 May 1947) is a Turkish historian and professor of history of Crimean Tatar origin at the MEF University, Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara. In 2005, he was appointed as the director ...
,
Halil İnalcık
Halil İnalcık (7 September 1916 – 25 July 2016) was a Turkish historian. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the Ottoman Empire. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed h ...
,
Erhan Afyoncu
Erhan Afyoncu (born 1967, in Tokat) is a Turkish historian, writer, academician, television programmer and columnist. Rector of the National Defense University.
Personal life
He saw his primary and secondary education in Tokat, the place of birth. ...
,
[ Afyoncu, Erhan, '' Osmanlı İmparatorluğu,'' p. 33-34, Yeditepe Yayıncılık, ]İstanbul
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, 2011. and demonstrated that those history books written more than six hundred years ago had erred in determining the father of
Ertuğrul
Ertuğrul or Ertuğrul Gazi ( ota, ارطغرل, Erṭoġrıl; tk, ; died ) was a 13th century bey, who was the father of Osman I. Little is known about Ertuğrul's life. According to Ottoman tradition, he was the son of Suleyman Shah, the ...
for some reasons, and had given Ertuğrul's father name incorrectly as
Suleyman Shah
Suleyman Shah ( ota, سلیمان شاه; Modern tr, Süleyman Şah) was, according to Ottoman tradition, the son of Kaya Alp and the father of Ertuğrul, who was the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire. Early Ottoman genealo ...
instead of Gündüz Alp because of the similarity of the name of
Kutalmışoğlu Suleyman Shah the founder of
Seljuks of Rum, and Osman I's presumed ancestor Suleyman Shah.
Son of Ertuğrul
According to ''Hasan bin Mahmûd el-Bayâtîs ''
Câm-ı Cem-Âyîn,''
Âşıkpaşazâde's '
and
Neşrî's ',
the name of one of the sons of Ertuğrul and one of the brothers of Osman I was also Gündüz, who had a son named Aydoğdu Bey. Some other sources also indicate that he had another son, Aktimur Bey who was a soldier and government official in the establishment of the Ottoman Empire. This Gündüz had another brother named
Saru-Yatı (Savcı Beg).
Osman I may also have had a nephew named Gündüz.
In fiction
Gündüz Bey, son of
Ertuğrul Bey
Ertuğrul or Ertuğrul Gazi ( ota, ارطغرل, Erṭoġrıl; tk, ; died ) was a 13th century bey, who was the father of Osman I. Little is known about Ertuğrul's life. According to Ottoman Empire, Ottoman tradition, he was the son of Sule ...
, is a character in the Turkish TV series ''
Diriliş: Ertuğrul'' and ''
Kuruluş: Osman''.
See also
*
Ottoman family tree
This is a male family tree for all the Ottoman Sultans and their mothers.
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Significant periods in Ottoman history
See also
* Ottoman dynasty
* Ottoman history
* Ottoman Empire
* Line ...
(more detailed)
*
Ottoman Empire
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