Gagik I. (Kakheti)
Gagik I ( Georgian გაგიკი ) was king of Kakheti (eastern Georgia ) between 1039 and 1058 .
Life
Gagik I was a son of the Armenian Bagratid king David I. His mother, named Zoracertel, was a sister of the Kakheti king Kvirike III. who adopted Gagik as son and heir. As Kvirike III. died in 1029, the Georgian king Bagrat IV annexed Kakheti. However, the Kakheti nobility managed to restore the monarchy in 1039 and to install Gagik as king. Gagik was able to preserve the crown and kingdom by navigating between Bagrat IV. And the powerful warlord Liparit IV. , Duke of Kldekari. In 1038/1040 he helped Bagrat IV in his ventures against the emirate of Tbilisi , but the hoped-for reconquest of Tbilisi failed. When the Georgian king tried to confiscate his possessions in Heretia , he allied himself with Liparit. In the resulting revolution from 1046 to 1047 he was able to restore more or less stable control over his territories.
After Gagik's death in 1058, his son Aghsartan I succeeded him to the throne.
Note: Marie-Félicité Brosset dated the death of Kvirike III. to the year 1039. Thus Gagik I. would be directly on Kvirike III. followed.
literature
- Cyril Toumanoff : Manuel de Généalogie et de Chronologie pour le Caucase chrétien (Arménie, Géorgie, Albanie) . Rome 1976.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cyrille Toumanoff: Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle: Tables généalogiques et chronologiques . Rome 1990, p. 569 .
- ^ Marie-Félicité Brosset: Histoire de la Géorgie depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle . v. 1-7. Saint Petersburg 1848, p. 143 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gagik I. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | გაგიკი (Georgian); Gagik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | King of Kakheti |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1039 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1058 |