Abgar IX Severus was king of

Osroene Osroene or Osrhoene (; ) was an ancient kingdom and region in Upper Mesopotamia. The ''Kingdom of Osroene'', also known as the "Kingdom of Edessa" ( / "Kingdom of Urhay"), according to the name of its capital city (now Urfa, Şanlıurfa, Turkey), ...

. Abgar succeeded his father,

Abgar VIII __NOTOC__ Abgar VIII of Edessa, Mesopotamia, Edessa, also known as Abgar the Great, or Abgar bar Ma'nu, was an Arabs, Arab king of Osroene from 177 CE to 212 CE. Abgar the Great was most remembered for his alleged conversion to Christianity in abo ...

in 212. In 213 Abgar IX and his son were summoned to

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and murdered at the orders of

Caracalla Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (born Lucius Septimius Bassianus, 4 April 188 – 8 April 217), better known by his nickname Caracalla (; ), was Roman emperor from 198 to 217 AD, first serving as nominal co-emperor under his father and then r ...

. A year later Caracalla ended the independence of Osroene and incorporated it as a province into the

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* * Kings of Osroene 3rd-century Arab people Abgarid dynasty 213 deaths Assassinated monarchs 3rd-century monarchs in the Middle East Roman client monarchs {{MEast-bio-stub