Saru Batu Savcı Bey (died 1286) was the older brother 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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. He is known to be the most 'mysterious' 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 ...

's children.

Name

It is unknown whether Ertuğrul actually had three or four children and it has confused many historians. This is because of the two names, Saru Batu and Savcı. Some historians combine the two names together while others don't. At Savcı Bey's mausoleum, there are two graves. One is marked as Saru Batu and another named Savcı, which creates this problem. However, in Ottoman tradition, there is no reference to this at all. According to another source, Savcı was the nickname/title of Saru Batu. This was the title of someone who was a diplomat or administrator of a tribe. Savcı Bey had this post from the time of his father, Ertuğrul's leadership, and his brother, Osman's leadership.

Death

Saru Batu Savcı Bey died during the Battle of Domaniç which occurred in 1286 before the founding of the

. It is also known in ancient Ottoman sources as the (, also known as the Battle of Domaniç). The Battle of Domaniç was a major turning point in the founding of the Ottoman Empire. This is why modern Turkish historians consider it the empire's first real war. This is the third Ottoman battle after the () in 1284 and the Siege of Kulaca Hisar at

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in 1285.

Place of burial

Sultan Kayqubad I gave Ertuğrul, the village of

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as a winter residence for the

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which was warm to them and their animals. He gave them the

Domaniç Domaniç is a town in Kütahya Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is the seat of Domaniç District.İkizce in Domaniç, where his grandmother, Ertuğrul's mother, Hayme Ana, was also buried near him in

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. His tomb was known to people as "Jad Bakr" ().

Family

*Savcı Bey, born to Ertuğrul, married Avna Hatun or Avna Sultan. Because of her having "Sultan" in her name, it is thought she was of some sort of royalty, however, there are no sources indicating this. She loved everyone and treated them equally while being extremely loving towards children, that is how she became Ana Sultan (). She was also called Kutlu Melek for her kind personality which means "Blessed Angel". Avna became a

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before her husband before the Siege of Kulaca Hisar. Savcı and Avna had two sons; **Saruhan Bayhoca (sometimes called Saruhan Baykoca, Koca Saruhan bey and Hoca Saruhan bey) who died young in 1284, when his uncle Osman decided to face a Byzantine contingent that ambushed him. **Süleyman Bey who outlived his parents and brother. He married his cousin

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's daughter Hatice Hatun. They had two sons and two daughters: *** Hamza Bey. He had a son, Mehmed Bey. *** Mustafa Bey. He had a son, Osman Bey. *** Ilaldi Hatun. *** Fatma Hatun.

Legacy

Annual tradition

In August, a celebration in memory of him is held in

Karaköy Karaköy (), the modern name for the old Galata, is a commercial quarter in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, located at the northern part of the Golden Horn mouth on the European side of Bosphorus. Karaköy is one of the oldest and mo ...

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, Turkey. In a video from 2019 the description is as follows: “Saru Batu Savci Bey, the son of Ertuğrul Gazi, was commemorated at the

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of Karaköy in our district in the 732nd year of his

dom.” This means he died on 1287 AD, 732 years ago.

Poems

There are also poems in the works titled “” () by Ibn Kemal/Kemalpaşazâde (aka Şemseddin Ahmed). These accounts may be unreliable but they mention that he died in the Battle of Domaniç ().

In popular culture

In the Turkish

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'' Diriliş: Ertuğrul'', he is played by the Turkish actor, Kerem Bekişoğlu, and in the sequel to the show, '' Kuruluş: Osman'', he is played by Kanbolat Görkem Arslan. In ''Kuruluş Osman'', Yağızkan Dikmen appears as Bayhoca. Savcı Bey's wife also appears but is named as "Lena Hatun", portrayed by Seray Kaya.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saru Batu Savci Bey 13th-century people from the Ottoman Empire Year of birth uncertain Place of birth unknown Oghuz Turks 1286 deaths