Ashot II (Kuropalat)

Aschot II. (* After 897 ; † 954 ) was from 941 to 954 Kuropalates of Kartli - Iberia (today's East Georgia ).

Life

Aschot was the second eldest son of King Adarnases IV. When Gurgen II. († 941) the Bagratid line of the Upper Tao died out, his lands were divided between the other Bagratid lines and the King of Abkhazia . The Upper Tao, Javakheti , Kola , Artani and Schawscheti received Ashot II. And around 952 who gave him Byzantine emperor , the Armenian neighboring territory Phasiane . Achara and Nigali fell to the king of Abkhazia. Sumbat II of Achara-Nigali was compensated with Artanudj - Cholarzene . After Aschot's death, who died without descendants, not only were his lands divided, but the titles as well. Aschot's nephew, Adarnase V. Magistros , received all the lands and in 958 the title of spa palate. He founded the second line of Tao, which began with David III. died out in 1000. His brother Sumbat I. Kuropalat retained the Lower Tao and the royal dignity.

Ashot II together with his brother David II donated the church in Opiza , where the two donors are shown in a relief.

literature

• Toumanoff, C .: The Bagaratides of Iberia from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century, in Le Museon 74, 1961 pp. 5-42 and. 233-316
• Hübner, E .: The rise of the Bagratids, in Georgica 26, Jena and Tbilisi 2003, pp. 20–38

predecessor	Office	successor
Gurgen II.	Grand Duke of Upper Tao 941–954	Adarnase V.