HOME
*





Kings Of Kakheti
Princes of Kakheti The Chosroids *–637 – Adarnase I, also prince of Iberia since 627. *637–650 – Stephen I, also prince of Iberia *650–684 – Adarnase II, prince of Iberia *685–736 – Stephen II *736–741 – Mirian *736–786 – Archil “the Martyr” *786–790 – Ioanne *786–807 – Juansher Chorbishops *786–827 – Grigol *827–839 – Vache Kvabulidze *839–861 – Samuel, Donauri *861–881 – Gabriel, Donauri * 881–893 – Padla I Arevmaneli *893–918 – Kvirike I *918–929 – Padla II *929–976 – Kvirike II *976–1010 – David *1010–1014 – Annexation by the Kingdom of Georgia *1014–1029 – Kvirike III *1029–1039 – Annexation by the Kingdom of Georgia Kings of Hereti *Grigol Hamam (893–897) * Adarnase (897–943) * Ishkhanik (943–951) *John (951–959) Kings of Kakheti and Hereti *1039–1058 – Gagik *1058–1084 – Aghsartan I *1084–1102 – Kvirike IV *1102–1105 – Aghsartan II ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Aghsartan II Of Kakheti
Aghsartan II ( ka, აღსართან II), was the last List of monarchs of Kakheti, King of medieval First Kingdom of Kakheti, Kakheti and Hereti in eastern Georgia (country), Georgia from 1102 to 1105. He succeeded upon the death of his father Kvirike IV of Kakheti, Kvirike IV. The medieval Georgian chroniclers characterize him as a frivolous man whose ignorant rule drew many great nobles into opposition. In 1105, Aghsartan was arrested by his vassals, the princes Arishiani of Hereti,QAUXČʻIŠVILI, S., VIVIAN, K., & BRYER, A. (1991). The Georgian chronicle: the period of Giorgi Lasha. Amsterdam, A.M. Hakkert. and handed over to King David IV of Georgia who finally annexed the kingdom of Kakheti to the unified all-Georgian realm. References Bibliography *Cyril Toumanoff, Toumanoff, Cyrille (1976, Rome). Manuel de Généalogie et de Chronologie pour le Caucase chrétien (Arménie, Géorgie, Albanie). *Vakhushti, Вахушти БагратиониИстория ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Aghsartan I Of Kakheti
Aghsartan I ( ka, აღსართან I; died 1084) was a King of Kakheti and Hereti in eastern Georgia from 1058 until his death in 1084. Life He succeeded on the death of his father Gagik of Kakheti. His reign coincided with the Seljuk invasions in the Georgian lands and persistent attempts by the Georgian Bagratid kings to bring all Georgian polities into their unified realm. In 1068, Aghsartan submitted to the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan, agreed to pay tribute, and secured the Turkish support against King Bagrat IV of Georgia who had seized part of the Kakhetian territory. He continued his struggle against the centralizing policy of the Georgian crown under Bagrat’s successor George II and allied himself with the rebellious Liparitid clan, but then transferred his loyalty to George and helped him counter the feudal opposition, and then fight the 1074 invasion by the Seljuk sultan Malik Shah I Jalāl al-Dawla Mu'izz al-Dunyā Wa'l-Din Abu'l-Fatḥ ibn Alp Arslān ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Kvirike III Of Kakheti
Kvirike III the Great ( ka, კვირიკე III დიდი, ''Kvirike III Didi'') (died 1037/39) was a ruler of Kakheti and Hereti in eastern Georgia from 1010 (effectively from 1014) to 1037 or 1039. Reign Kvirike succeeded upon the death of his father David as a prince and chorepiscopus of Kakheti, but the Bagratid king Bagrat III of Georgia captured him and conquered Kakheti. Following Bagrat's death in 1014, Kvirike was able to recover the crown, took control of the neighboring kingdom of Hereti and declared himself King of Kakheti and Hereti. He made Telavi his capital and constructed a palace at Bodoji near Tianeti. Under Kvirike III, the kingdom experienced a period of political power and prosperity. In 1027, Kvirike joined the combined armies of Bagrat IV of Georgia led by Liparit Orbeliani and Ivane Abazasdze, Emir Jaffar of Tiflis, and the Armenian King David I of Lorri against the Shaddadid emir of Arran, Fadhl II, who was decisively defeated at the Ek ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

First Kingdom Of Kakheti
The Kingdom of Kakheti-Hereti ( ka, კახეთ-ჰერეთის სამეფო, tr) or just the First Kingdom of Kakheti was an early Medieval monarchy in eastern Georgia, centered at the province of Kakheti, with its capital first at Telavi. It emerged in 1014 AD, under the leadership of energetic ruler of principality of Kakheti, Kvirike III the Great that finally defeated the ruler of Hereti and crowned himself as a king of the unified realms of Kakheti and Hereti. From this time on, until 1104, the kingdom was an independent and separated state from the united Kingdom of Georgia. The kingdom included territories from riv. Ksani (western border) to Alijanchay river (eastern border) and from Didoeti (northern border) to southwards along the river of Mtkvari (southern border). Establishment of the principality Kakheti had been a part of Kingdom of Iberia, and then a part the Principate of Iberia. However, in the second half of the 8th century, Arab sou ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  




Padla II Of Kakheti
P'adla II ( ka, ფადლა II) (died 929 ) was a List of monarchs of Kakheti and Hereti#Princes of Kakheti, Prince and Chorbishop, Chorepiscopus of First Kingdom of Kakheti#Establishment of the principality, Kakheti in eastern Georgia (country), Georgia from 918 to 929. He succeeded upon the death of his father, Kvirike I of Kakheti, Kvirike I. His rule was marked by the Arab raids into Kakheti and Padla's involvement in the struggles and dynastic feuds in various Caucasus, Caucasian polities. Early in his reign he lost the fortress of Orchobi to the neighboring ruler Adarnase of Hereti who had ceded it to Padla's father. In 922, Padla aided King Ashot II of Armenia in crushing the revolt by prince Moses of Utik. Later in his reign, he also assisted George II of Abkhazia against his rebellious son Prince Constantine. He was succeeded by his son Kvirike II of Kakheti, Kvirike II. Bibliography *Cyril Toumanoff, Toumanoff, Cyrille (1976, Rome). Manuel de Généalogie et de Ch ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


George VIII Of Georgia
George VIII ( Georgian: გიორგი VIII, ''Giorgi VIII''; 1417–1476) was the last king of the united Georgia, though his kingdom was already splintered and embroiled in a civil war, from 1446 to 1465. Defeated by his rivals, he was left with an eastern province Kakheti alone, where he reigned as George I from 1465 until his death, founding a local branch of the Bagrationi royal house. Life He was the third son of Alexander I of Georgia by his second wife Tamar. Though Demetre, Alexander’s second son, seems to have been a rightful successor to his elder brother Vakhtang IV, George actually held power after Vakhtang’s death in December 1446. The process of the disintegration of the Georgian kingdom had already begun and was close to reach its climax. The most troublesome were revolts by the western Georgian nobles and the atabegs of Samtskhe. The latter even attempted to create a separate church for his princedom, but the efforts of the Georgian Catholicos Patri ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Kvirike IV Of Kakheti
Kvirike IV ( ka, კვირიკე IV) (died 1102) was a King of Kakheti and Hereti in eastern Georgia from 1084 to 1102. He succeeded upon the death of his father Aghsartan I. He ruled as a tributary to the Seljuq dynasty and opposed the energetic Georgian king David IV who pursued a vigorous domestic and foreign policy aimed at asserting Georgia's integrity and its hegemony in the Caucasus. Kvirike lost the fortress of Zedazeni Zedazeni Monastery ( ka, ზედაზნის მონასტერი) is a Georgian Orthodox monastery, located on the Zedazeni mountain the hills of Saguramo, northeast to Mtskheta and to the east side of the Aragvi River. The monastery ... to David, but was still able to secure the succession to his son Aghsartan II. References * Toumanoff, Cyrille (1976, Rome). Manuel de Généalogie et de Chronologie pour le Caucase chrétien (Arménie, Géorgie, Albanie). * Вахушти БагратиониИстория царства гру� ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Gagik Of Kakheti
Gagik ( ka, გაგიკი) (died 1058) was a King of Kakheti and Hereti in eastern Georgia from 1039 to 1058. Life He was a son of the Armenian Bagratid king David I of Lorri and his Georgian wife, sister of King Kvirike III of Kakheti who adopted Gagik as his son and heir. When Kvirike III died in 1029, King Bagrat IV of Georgia annexed Kakheti to his kingdom, but, in 1039, the Kakhetian nobility succeeded in restoring monarchy and installed Gagik as king. Through maneuvering between Bagrat IV and the powerful Georgian warlord Liparit Orbeliani Gagik managed to retain his crown and the integrity of his kingdom. He aided Bagrat in his expeditions against the Emirate of Tbilisi, but when the king of Georgia attempted to take Gagik's possessions in Hereti The Kingdom of Hereti ( ka, ჰერეთის სამეფო ''heretis samepo'') was a medieval monarchy which emerged in Caucasus on the Iberian- Albanian frontier. Nowadays it roughly corresponds to the south ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  




John Of Hereti
John Senekerim () was the ruler of the Kingdom of Hereti from 951 to 959. John is the only known child of King Ishkhanik. During his reign Hereti reached an apex of power and prestige, mainly after the annexation of the right bank of Caucasian Albania. Armenian historian Movses Kaghankatvatsi calls him the "restorer of the Kingdom of Albania". Later he annexed parts of Kakheti and adopted the title of "King of the Tsanars". John had a good relations with the representatives of the Sallarid dynasty (Daylam) and with David III Kuropalates of Tao. Like his father Ishkhanik and grandmother Dinar The dinar () is the principal currency unit in several countries near the Mediterranean Sea, and its historical use is even more widespread. The modern dinar's historical antecedents are the gold dinar and the silver dirham, the main coin of ..., he contributed a lot to the conversion of his kingdom. He died in 959 without heirs. As a result the prince of Kakheti Kvirike II took the op ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Ishkhanik Of Hereti
Ishkhanik () ruler of Kingdom of Hereti, Hereti between 943–951. He was the son and successor of Adarnase of Hereti, Adarnase Patrikios, ruled together with his mother Queen regnant Dinar of Hereti, Dinar, sister of Grand Magister officiorum#Byzantine Empire, Magister Gurgen of Klarjeti, Gurgen IV, Prince of Klarjeti ( 918–941). Under Ishkhanik's reign Hereti was forced to recognize the supremacy of the stronger neighbour, Daylamites, Principality of Daylam, ruled by the Sallarid dynasty (Azerbaijan (Iran), Iranian Azerbaijan). According to ''The Georgian Chronicles'' Queen Dinar, along with her son Ishkhanik converted Hereti to the Georgian Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox confession and abandoned the Church of Caucasian Albania, Oriental Orthodox confession in the 10th century.Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Kartlis Tskhovreba (History of Georgia), Artanuji pub. Tbilisi 2014 In 950, he took advantage of the bitter power struggle in the Sallarid state, and ceased to pay ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Adarnase Of Hereti
Adarnase Sumbatishvili ( Georgian: ადარნასე სუმბათიშვილი), also known as Atrnerseh (Armenian: Ատրներսեհ) was a South Caucasus prince of the 10th century who founded the Kingdom of Hereti in 897. Most likely of Albano-Armenian origins, he inherited a part of the domains of his father, Prince Grigor Hamam, out of which he founded Hereti as an independent kingdom, as well as the Sumbatishvili dynasty. He ruled over a chaotic period in the history of the region and faced several enemies, including the Principality of Kakheti, the Kingdom of Abkhazia and the Emirate of Tiflis. Adarnase ruled with the title of king for most of his reign, except for a short time during which he was forced to accept Byzantine suzerainty. Family origins The origins of Adarnase are disputed amongst modern historians. Marie-Félicité Brosset, who studied the Caucasus in the 19th century, believed that Adarnase came from a cadet scion of the Bagrationi dyn ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Grigol Of Hereti
Grigor Hamam () or Grigol Hamam () (d. 897) was ruler of Hereti (Arran) between 893–897. He was one of the descendants of the princely family of the Mihranids. Prince Grigor Hamam occupied large part of Arran and even restored the Albanian kingship for a while.Каганкатваци, кн. III, гл. XXII Family Grigor married an unknown princess, with whom he had five sons: Issue * Apuli — was killed by his brother Smbat. * Smbat — ruler of the lands around Gandzasar, Lower Khachen. * Sahak Sevada — ruler of Gardman and Parisos. * Vasak — ruler over the Upper Khachen. * Adarnase the Patrikios — ruler of Hereti The Kingdom of Hereti ( ka, ჰერეთის სამეფო ''heretis samepo'') was a medieval monarchy which emerged in Caucasus on the Iberian- Albanian frontier. Nowadays it roughly corresponds to the southeastern corner of Georgia's K .... References {{Georgia-hist-stub Monarchs of Hereti 897 deaths Year of birth unkn ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]