Rusudan ( ka, რუსუდანი) was a 12th-13th-century Georgian princess of the Bagrationi royal family. She was a daughter of King
Demetrius I of Georgia
Demetrius I ( ka, დემეტრე) ( 1093 – 1156), from the Bagrationi dynasty, was King of Georgia from 1125 to 1156. He is also known as a poet. He was King of United Georgian kingdom two times, first in 1125 to 1154 and second in 1155 ...
, sister of the kings
David V
David V ( ka, დავით V, ''Davit' V''; died 1155), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a 7th king of Georgia in 1154 before his death in 1155
He was an elder son of King Demetre I. Fearing that Demetre would make his younger son Giorgi an h ...
and
George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
, wife of
Manuchihr II of Shirvan
Abul Muzaffar Manuchehr was the seventeenth independent Shah of Shirvan.
Reign
Very little information is known about his reign except numismatics. He was likely emir of Ganja
Ganja (, ; ) is one of the oldest and most commonly used synony ...
, and a paternal aunt of the famous Queen
Tamar of Georgia
Tamar the Great ( ka, თამარ მეფე, tr, lit. "King Tamar") ( 1160 – 18 January 1213) reigned as the Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1213, presiding over the apex of the Georgian Golden Age. A member of the Bagrationi dyna ...
.
Around 1143Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia by Donald Rayfield, page 99 she married sultan Masud Temirek, but the marriage only lasted a few years before his death 2 October 1152. She later married
Ahmed Sanjar
Senjer ( fa, ; full name: ''Muizz ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Adud ad-Dawlah Abul-Harith Ahmad Sanjar ibn Malik-Shah'') (''b''. 1085 – ''d''. 8 May 1157) was the Seljuq ruler of Khorasan from 1097 until in 1118,Seljuk sultan. When her second husband died, she married
Manuchihr II of Shirvan
Abul Muzaffar Manuchehr was the seventeenth independent Shah of Shirvan.
Reign
Very little information is known about his reign except numismatics. He was likely emir of Ganja
Ganja (, ; ) is one of the oldest and most commonly used synony ...
, returned to Georgia and ruled over it as a regent in the first years of Queen Tamar’s reign. She was also a tutor and patron of the
Alan
Alan may refer to:
People
*Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname
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''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.''
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prince Soslan-David whom Tamar married as her second husband in 1189. Some historians believe that in 1154 Rusudan was also married to
David Soslan
David Soslan ( ka, დავით სოსლანი, tr) (died 1207) was a prince from Alania and second husband of Queen Tamar, whom he married in c. 1189. He is chiefly known for his military exploits during Georgia's wars against its Musl ...
, she went to
Shirvanshah
''Shirvanshah'' ( fa, شروانشاه), also spelled as ''Shīrwān Shāh'' or ''Sharwān Shāh'', was the title of the rulers of Shirvan from the mid-9th century to the early 16th century. The title remained in a single family, the Yazidids, ...
where she ruled the kingdom along with her husband
Manuchihr II of Shirvan
Abul Muzaffar Manuchehr was the seventeenth independent Shah of Shirvan.
Reign
Very little information is known about his reign except numismatics. He was likely emir of Ganja
Ganja (, ; ) is one of the oldest and most commonly used synony ...
.
In her eighties, Rusudan withdrew to a monastery c. 1210.
Further reading
*
Toumanoff, Cyril
Cyril Leo Toumanoff (russian: Кирилл Львович Туманов; 13 October 1913 – 4 February 1997) was a Russian-born Georgian historian and genealogist who mostly specialized in the history and genealogies of medieval Georgia, Armenia, ...
. On the Relationship between the Founder of the
Empire of Trebizond
The Empire of Trebizond, or Trapezuntine Empire, was a monarchy and one of three successor rump states of the Byzantine Empire, along with the Despotate of the Morea and the Principality of Theodoro, that flourished during the 13th through ...
and the Georgian Queen Thamar. ''Speculum'', Vol. 15, No. 3. (Jul., 1940), p. 305.