Grigor I. Mamikonjan

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Grigor A Mamikonjan ( Armenian Գրիգոր Ա Մամիկոնյան , also: Grégoire Ier Mamikonian) was prince of Armenia from 662 to 685, during the time of Arab rule.

Life

Grigor was the son of Nacharar Davit Mamikonjan and brother of Hamasasp IV. Mamikonjan . As a youth he was held hostage in Damascus until the Armenian Nacharar 'and the Patriarch Narses III. the builder could bring about his return in 658 by asking the caliph to act as prince in place of his brother.

Muʿāwiya I. accepted the nomination as governor because he considered him a "good man, distinguished by his qualities of spirit, justice, calm and softness". His reign was peaceful and successful and he used his powers to build churches and worked actively with the three patriarchs who ran the Armenian Apostolic Church during his reign : Anastas I of Akorezi (Անաստաս Ա Ակոռեցի), Israjel A. Wotmsezi (Իսրայել Ա Ոթմսեցի) and Sahak G Dsoroporezi .

Grigor is celebrated in Armenian history for bringing the relics of Gregory the Illuminator from Thordan to Valarchapat . His wife Mariam , a princess of Albania , received an upper jaw from him for her nephew Varaz-Tirdat I of Albania (680–699).

In 681, after twenty years of peacefulness, the Armenians, Iberians and Albanians took advantage of the civil wars that shook the caliphate 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.

His title, Prince of Armenia , passed to Ashot II Bagratuni , a member of the rival family of the Bagratouni .

progeny

His (second?) Wife Helene († 670), daughter of Varaz Grigor , the prince of Albania, left no children behind.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gérard Dédéyan (dir.), Histoire du peuple arménien. Private, Toulouse 2007: p. 216. ISBN 978-2-7089-6874-5
  2. ↑ a b c Grousset: Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071: 305.
  3. ↑ "un homme bienfaisant, distingué par les qualités de l'esprit, juste, tranquille et doux" René Grousset , ibid. , cite Johannes V. (Katholikos) , XII, p. 78 & Ghévond , p. 14.
  4. ^ 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
  5. ↑ a b Grousset: Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071: p. 306.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ↑ Grousset: Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071: p. 307.
  8. ↑ Gérard Dédéyan (dir.), Op. Cit. : Pp. 221-222.
  9. ↑ Cyrille Toumanoff : Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle: Tables généalogiques et chronologiques. Rome 1990: p. 332.

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
Hamasasp II. Mamikonjan Ishkhan Ishkhanats ′
662-685 		Ashot II. Bagratuni
personal data
SURNAME Mamikonjan, Grigor A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Գրիգոր Ա Մամիկոնյան (Armenian); Grégoire Ier Mamikonian; Gregory I. Mamikonian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian prince
DATE OF BIRTH before 658
DATE OF DEATH 685