Ashot II. Bagratuni

Ashot II. Bagratuni ( Armenian Աշոտ Բ Բագրատունի ; † 688) was prince of Armenia from 685 to 688. He came from the Bagratiden family .

Life

Aschot was the son of Sembat V. Bagratuni , Aspet and Knappe.

Prince Grigor I Mamikonjan , like other Iberians and Albanians, took advantage of the civil wars that shook the Umayyad caliphate in 681 and revolted against Muslim rule. In the fourth year of independence, however, Grigor had to face an offensive by the Khazars , who had also benefited from the weakness of the Arabs, invaded Transcaucasia and besieged northern Armenia. He was killed in one skirmish in 685. The Caliph Abd al-Malik then named Ashot Bagratuni as Ischchan. Aschot tried from the beginning to push back the Khazars. He had the Amenaperkitch Cathedral (Surp Amenaprgich Vank, "Savior of All Men") built in Dariounq .

Around 688 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian II dispatched an army to Armenia to bring the country back under the influence of the Byzantine Empire , but the army behaved as if in a conquered country. Aschot raised an army and defeated them, but while the main part of the army was struggling to retrieve the booty, Aschot pursued the defeated troops and was mortally wounded in a skirmish.

Aschot had a son, Sembat, who was used as a Nacharar from 703 to 705 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Settipani: Continuité des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obscurs. Les princes caucasiens et l'Empire du VIe au IXe siècle. Paris 2006: 333-334.
2. ↑ Grousset: Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071: p. 306.
3. ^ Marie-Félicité Brosset : Histoire de la Géorgie , Addition IX, p. 157, quoted from Stépanos Taronetsi (Açolik), Livre II, chapitre 4, and Ghévond: Histoire des Khaliphes. chapitre IV.
4. ↑ Grousset: Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071: p. 307.
5. ↑ Grousset: Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071. Paris 1947: 307–308.
6. ^ Christian Settipani, op. Cit. P. 334.

literature

• René Grousset: Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071. Paris, Payot 1947. (Reprints 1973, 1984, 1995, 2008) p. 305.
• Christian Settipani : Continuité des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obscurs. Les princes caucasiens et l'Empire du VIe au IXe siècle. Paris, de Boccard 2006: 142. ISBN 978-2-7018-0226-8
• Cyrille Toumanoff : Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle: Tables généalogiques et chronologiques. Rome 1990: p. 332.

predecessor	Office	successor
Grigor I. Mamikonjan	Ishkhan Ishkhanats ′ 685-688	Nerses Kamsarakan