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

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and

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, 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;

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

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's ' and early 16th century

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's ' had asserted that Süleyman Şah was the father of Ertuğrul. Historian

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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.

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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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's '' Behcetü't Tevârîh:''
Family tree in

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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 ( 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 ...

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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

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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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, Afyoncu, Erhan, ''

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,'' p. 33-34, Yeditepe Yayıncılık,

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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

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 genealogi ...

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 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. Köy1

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''.

References

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Gündüz in the family tree of Ertuğrul and Osman I

Father of Ertuğrul

Son of Ertuğrul

In fiction

See also

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