Gündüz Alp was the likely father of

Ertuğrul Ertuğrul or Ertuğrul Ghazi (; died ) was a 13th-century uch bey (marcher-lord), 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 Suleyman Shah, the leader ...

(13th century) and grandfather of

Osman I Osman I or Osman Ghazi (; or ''Osman Gazi''; died 1323/4) was the eponymous founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as a bey, beylik or emirate). While initially a small Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman principality during Osman's lifetime, h ...

, the founder of the

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. 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

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, Gündüz Alp was the father of Ertuğrul. Ottoman writer Yazıcıoğlu Ali's '' Tevârih-i Âl-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.

's '','' Hasan bin Mahmûd el-Bayâtî's ''Câm-ı Cem-Âyîn,'' Âşıkpaşazâde's ''History of Âşıkpaşazâde,''

Neşri Mevlânâ Mehmed Neşri (born c. 1450 – died circa 1520), also commonly referred to as Neshri (), was an Ottoman historian, a prominent representative of early Ottoman historiography. Very little is known about Neşri, which suggests that he ...

's ' and early 16th century

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's ' had asserted that

Suleyman Shah Suleyman Shah (; ) 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 genealogies disputed this lineage, and either Suleyman Shah ...

was the father of Ertuğrul. Historian

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argued that the latter have confused Suleyman Shah 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 Yazıcıoğlu Ali's '':''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 claims that "Mir Süleymân Alp" in the family tree above is the ''

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"Suleiman ibn Qutulmish."'' Family tree according to

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Şükrullah Şükrullah was a 15th-century Ottoman historian and diplomat.

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's '' Câm-ı Cem-Âyîn'':İnalcık, Halil, 2007; sf. 488.
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put forward that he had descended from ''Gökalp'' and ''"

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instead of ''" Süleyman Şah ibn

Kaya Alp Kaya Alp () was, according to Ottoman Empire, Ottoman tradition, the son of Kızıl Buğa ''or'' Basuk and the father of Suleyman Shah. He was the grandfather of Ertuğrul, Ertuğrul Ghazi and great-grandfather of the Ottoman Empire founder, Osma ...

".'' Âşıkpaşazâde, '' History of Âşıkpaşazâde;'' & According to Erhan Afyoncu, the identity of '' Süleyman Şah'' in the Tomb of Suleyman Shah is unidentified. He also defends that the father of ''

'' 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-

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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

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, Erhan Afyoncu, Afyoncu, Erhan, '' Osmanlı İmparatorluğu,'' p. 33-34, Yeditepe Yayıncılık,

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, 2011.

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and demonstrated that those history books written more than six hundred years ago had erred in determining the father of

for some reasons, and had given Ertuğrul's father name incorrectly as

instead of Gündüz Alp because of the similarity of the name of Kutalmışoğlu Suleyman Shah the founder of

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, 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

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and a daughter named Efendize, who married her cousin

Orhan Orhan Ghazi (; , also spelled Orkhan; died 1362) was the second sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1323/4 to 1362. He was born in Söğüt, as the son of Osman I. In the early stages of his reign, Orhan focused his energies on conquering mos ...

. 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 Gündüz or Gunduz is a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Gündüz Aktan (1941–2008), Turkish diplomat and politician *Gunduz Caginalp (died 2021), American mathematician of Turkish descent * ...

, son of Ertuğrul Bey, is a character in the Turkish TV series '' Diriliş: Ertuğrul'' and '' Kuruluş: Osman''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alp, Gunduz 13th-century people from the Ottoman Empire Ottoman dynasty Year of birth unknown Year of birth uncertain Oghuz Turks

Gündüz in the family tree of Ertuğrul and Osman I

Father of Ertuğrul

Son of Ertuğrul

In fiction

See also

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