Muschegh IV. Mamikonjan

This article deals with the younger Muschegh, for other meanings see Muschegh Mamikonjan (Moušeł Mamikonian).

Muschegh D (IV.) Mamikonjan ( Armenian Մուշեղ Դ Մամիկոնյան ; also: Mouschel III Mamikonian , Moušeł IV Mamikonian ) was an Armenian Ishkhan Ishkhanats ′ from the Mamikonian family . His rule lasted only about a year, 654. It was during this period that the Arabs began to rule Armenia.

Life

While Armenia came under increasing Arab influence, the Armenians initially approached the Byzantine Empire in order to be better able to withstand the Arab attacks. Emperor Konstans II had appointed Theodoros Rštuni prince of Armenia in 643 , but the Armenians were quickly disappointed by the Byzantines, as they on the one hand hardly provided any support against the Arabs and on the other hand tried by forced conversions to reverse the church division that had occurred with the council of Chalcedony 451. Rštuni threw off the sovereignty of Byzantium and again approached the Arabs. He had the Byzantine ambassadors imprisoned.

Konstans II then invaded Armenia and forced Rštuni to flee. In his place he appointed Muschegh IV. Mamikonjan to sparapet and thus to prince of Armenia. After the withdrawal of the Byzantine army, however, Rštuni received a contingent of 7,000 Arab warriors and regained control of Armenia and the reign.

Hamasasp IV. Mamikonjan , probably an uncle of Muschegh , appears among the supporters of Rštuni . A hint by Sebeos indicates that there was a grecophile and an arabophile Mamikonjan at that time, but the two princes otherwise lived on good terms. Muschegh defected to the Arabs in 656, left his four sons hostage and remained their ally when in 657 Hamasasp IV. Mamikonjan, who had become prince of Armenia at that time, turned to Byzantium.

family

Cyril Toumanoff and Christian Settipani consider Muschegh to be a son of sparapet Muschegh III. Mamikonjan . However, given the custom that the Armenians do not give a child the first name of his living father, Settipani postulates that he could have been born posthumously, but that would have only made him about twelve years old when he became Sparapet and sixteen when he was Prince of Armenia has been.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Toumanoff 1990. pp. 332-333.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Settipani 2006. pp. 139-140.
3. ↑ Grousset 1947. pp. 296-302.
4. ↑ Grousset 1947. pp. 302-304.

literature

• René Grousset: Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071. Paris, Payot 1947. (Reprints 1973, 1984, 1995, 2008) p. 302.
• Cyrille Toumanoff: Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle: Tables généalogiques et chronologiques. Rome 1990. pp. 332-333.
• 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. pp. 139-140. ISBN 978-2-7018-0226-8

predecessor	Office	successor
Theodoros Rštuni	Ishkhan Ishkhanats ′ of Armenia 654	Theodoros Rštuni Hamasasp II. Mamikonjan