# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ertugrul
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:46:19.300Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ertugrul"
name: "Ertuğrul"
slug: "ertugrul"
description: "A 13th-century marcher-lord on the Anatolian frontier whose reward for loyal service was a small border town — and whose son founded an empire that would last six centuries."
tagline: "Ottoman ruler, father of Osman I"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TM-2001-500manat-%C3%84rtogrul_Gazy-b.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
deathDate: "1281"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.86
  momentum:             1.994981578868348
  historical:           23.492936
  currentAttention:     21.71082822567971
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Founders"
    slug: "founders"
  - name: "Politics"
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  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ertuğrul"
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    title: "ארטורול"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ertuğrul died around 1280, leaving behind more legend than verified record. Ottoman tradition names him son of Suleyman Shah, leader of the Kayı tribe of Oghuz Turks fleeing Mongol expansion from Central Asia into Anatolia, though contemporary numismatic evidence points to Gündüz Alp as his father. What's clearer is the choice he made: entering the service of the Sultanate of Rum, he earned dominion over Söğüt, a frontier settlement pressed against Byzantine territory. That grant of borderland to a loyal uch bey set the conditions. His son Osman would inherit the post and, from that edge, begin the campaigns that became the Ottoman Empire.