Dündar Bey was the youngest son of the
Kayı Bey
Bey, also spelled as Baig, Bayg, Beigh, Beig, Bek, Baeg, Begh, or Beg, is a Turkic title for a chieftain, and a royal, aristocratic title traditionally applied to people with special lineages to the leaders or rulers of variously sized areas in ...
Suleyman Shah or
Gündüz Alp
Gündüz Alp was the likely father of Ertuğrul (13th century) and grandfather of Osman I, 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 Osma ...
and the younger brother 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). He was the uncle 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
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...
.
Biography
At the time of the
division of the Kayı tribe, Dündar Bey migrated with his older brother Ertuğrul after the death of their father.
When Ertuğrul died c. 1280, leadership/chief beyship of the
Kayı tribe Kayı can refer to:
* Kayı (tribe)
* Kayı, Çorum
* Kayı, İdil
* Kayı, Ilgaz
* Kayı, Kemer
* Kayı, Mecitözü
* Kayı, Oğuzlar
{{dis ...
transferred over to Ertuğrul's son, Osman I. When Osman I decided to attack a small Greek island, Dündar set a trap for him; Dündar rebelled because he thought such an attack would destroy the tribe. The circumstances surrounding his death are, like many other details of his ill-documented life, disputed.
Historical sources disagree on whether or not he was executed by Osman I.
In popular culture
Dündar Bey has been portrayed in Turkish television series; ' (1988), ''
Diriliş: Ertuğrul'' (2014—2019) and ''
Kuruluş: Osman'' (2019—2021).
References
Year of birth unknown
Place of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Place of death unknown
13th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman dynasty
{{Ottoman-bio-stub