Diriliş: Ertuğrul.

This article is about the Turkish tribal chief. For the television series based on him, see Diriliş: Ertuğrul. For the ship, see Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul.

Ertuğrul
ارطغرلGhaziErtuğrul on a 2001 Turkmen coinUç bey of the Sultanate of RumReignUnknown – c. 1280PredecessorOffice establishedSuccessorOsman IBornUnknownDiedc. 1280
Söğüt, Sultanate of RumBurialTomb of Ertuğrul Gazi, Söğüt, Bilecik ProvinceSpouseHalime Hatun (disputed)IssueOsman I
2 other sons[1][2]Full nameErtuğrul bin Suleyman Shah (ارطغرل بن سلیمان شاہ)
Ertuğrul bin Gündüz Alp (ارطغرل بن گندوزآلپ)FatherSuleyman Shah or Gündüz Alp[3][4]MotherHayme Ana[3]

Tomb of Ertuğrul Gazi

Ertuğrul or Ertuğrul Ghazi (Ottoman Turkish: ارطغرل‎, romanized: Erṭoġrıl, died c. 1280)[5] was the father of Osman I.[6] Little is known about Ertuğrul's life. According to Ottoman tradition, he was the son of Suleyman Shah, the leader of the Kayı tribe (a claim which has come under criticism from many historians[nb 1]) of Oghuz Turks, who fled from western Central Asia to Anatolia to escape the Mongol conquests, but he may instead have been the son of Gündüz Alp.[3][8] According to this legend, after the death of his father, Ertuğrul and his followers entered the service of the Sultanate of Rum, for which he was rewarded with dominion over the town of Söğüt on the frontier with the Byzantine Empire.[5] This set off the chain of events that would ultimately lead to the founding of the Ottoman Empire.