Grigor II Mamikonjan

Grigor B Mamikonjan ( Armenian Գրիգոր Բ Մամիկոնյան , English: Grigor II. Mamikonian ; † 748 ) was an Armenian Nacharar from the Mamikonian family , an important noble family . He was in power as Ishkhan Ishkhanats ′ from 745 to 746 , and then again in 748.

Life

When in 732 the caliph Hisham ibn ʿAbd al-Malik Ashot III. Bagratuni was appointed Ishkan Ishkanasts', the brothers Davith and Grigor Mamikonjan refused to recognize this appointment and began a revolt. However, they were defeated, arrested and exiled in Yemen by the Arab governor Marwan II .

In 744, shortly after the death of Caliph Hisham, civil war broke out in the Arab Empire and Davith and Grigor Mamikonian were able to profit from it and escape. They returned to Armenia. As long as Marwan was absent, they fought Ashot and forced him to flee. The next governor, Ishak ibn-Moslim , even appointed Grigor Mamikonian Ishkhan of Armenia.

In 746, when the new caliph, Marwān II ibn-Mohammed, was firmly in control of power, he wanted to compensate Ashot Bagratuni for supporting him during the war. He entrusted his generals to seize Davith Mamikonian. He had his hands cut off and strangled him and installed Ashot as prince in Armenia. Grigor Mamikonjan was forced to be reconciled with Ashot.

In 748 the war began again, this time between Marwān II, the last Umayyad caliph , and the Abbasids . Grigor Mamikonian decided to avenge his brother, he took Aschot Bagratuni by surprise, captured him and let him blind . He proclaimed himself Prince of Armenia, but died soon after of an illness, whereupon he bequeathed his title to his brother Muschegh S Mamikonjan (Մուշեղ Զ Մամիկոնյան, Moušeł VI Mamikonian).

family

Grigor was the son of Hrahat Mamikonian , a prince who, according to Christian Settipani , was either the son of Muschegh V (Մուշեղ Դ Մամիկոնյան, Moušeł V), or brother of Muschegh IV (Moušeł IV), according to Cyrille Toumanoff .

Possibly Šoušan Mamikonian was his sister who was married to Artavazd Kamsarakan .

literature

• René Grousset: Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071. Paris, Payot 1947 (reprints 1973, 1984, 1995, 2008), pp. 316–319.
• Cyrille Toumanoff: Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle: Tables généalogiques et chronologiques. Rome 1990, p. 333.
• Christian Settipani: Continuité des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obscurs. Les princes caucasiens et l'Empire du VIe au IXe siècle. de Boccard, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-7018-0226-8 , pp. 142-146

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grousset 1947, p. 316.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Settipani 2006, p. 142.
3. ↑ Grousset 1947, pp. 317-318.
4. ↑ Grousset 1947, p. 318.
5. ↑ Grousset 1947, p. 319.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Settipani 2006, pp. 142–147.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Toumanoff 1990, p. 333.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ashot III. Bagratuni	Ishkhan Ishkhanats ′ 745-746 748	Muschegh S Mamikonjan