Adarnase I ( ka, ადარნასე I) or Adrnerse (ადრნერსე, also transliterated as Atrnerseh), of the

Chosroid dynasty The Chosroid dynasty (a Latinization of ''Khosro anni'', ka, ხოსრო ��ანები), also known as the Iberian Mihranids, were a dynasty of kings and later presiding princes of the early Georgian state of Iberia from the 4th to t ...

, was a presiding prince of

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(

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, eastern

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) from 627 to 637/642. The name Adarnase derives from

Middle Persian Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg ( Inscriptional Pahlavi script: , Manichaean script: , Avestan script: ) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasania ...

''Ādurnarsēh'', with the second component of the word (''Nase'') being the Georgian attestation of the Middle Persian name ''Narseh'', which ultimately derives from

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''nairyō.saŋya-''. The Middle Persian name ''Narseh'' also exists in Georgian as ''Nerse''. The name ''Ādurnarsēh'' appears in the

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as ''Atrnerseh''. He was the son of

Bakur III Bakur III ( ka, ბაკურ III, Latinized as ''Bacurius'') (died 580) was the last Chosroid king ('' mepe'') of Iberia (natively known as Kartli; ancient Georgia) upon whose death the Iberian monarchy was abolished by Sassanid Iran. The na ...

, the last king of Iberia, and a hereditary duke (

eristavi ''Eristavi'' (; literally, "head of the nation") was a Georgia (country), Georgian feudal office, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine ''strategos'' and normally translated into English language, English as "prince" or less comm ...

) of

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. In 627, he assisted the

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army with the siege of

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and was made ruler of Iberia by the

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who had the pro-

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prince Stephanus I executed. Somewhere between 637 and 642 (i.e., after the

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and before that of Nihawānd), he joined his forces with the

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prince Javanshir in an attack on Iranian garrisons in Albania.Martindale, John Robert (1992), ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', pp. 13-14.

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, . According to the seventh-century historian Movses Daskhurantsi, Adarnase wore three Byzantine titles. He is identified by the art historian

Wachtang Djobadze Wachtang Djobadze ( ka, ვახტანგ ჯობაძე) (March 8, 1917 – February 10, 2007) was a Georgian art historian and Professor at the California State University, Los Angeles. During the Soviet Union, he lived as an émigré i ...

with the honorary consul Adarnase (Adrnerse hypatos) recorded on an inscription from the Jvari Monastery at

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, Georgia.

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argues, however, that this Adrnerse is actually Adarnase II active in the late seventh century.Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), ''Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts'', p. 344. Peeters Bvba, . His other titles are likely to have been those of ''

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'' and perhaps ''

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''. He was the father of and was succeeded by

Stephen II of Iberia Stephen II ( ka, სტეფანოზ II, ''Step'anoz II''), of the Chosroid dynasty, was a Principate of Iberia, presiding prince of Caucasian Iberia, Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia (country), Georgia) from 637/642 to c. 650.The son and succ ...

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