Seneqerim Johannes

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Seneqerim Johannes Artsruni , also Senekʿerim (* 968/969; † 1024 or 1026/27), brother of Deranik, was the last king of Vaspurakan from the Artsruni dynasty . His name was derived from that of the Assyrian ruler Sennacherib , who was considered the ancestor of the dynasty. He ruled at the time of Emperor Basil II. He built a church on Mount Varak , where the true cross had appeared, and a monastery at the foot of the mountain.

After the invasions of Turkish nomads in 1016 and 1018 and a defeat against the Byzantines in 1021, his son David negotiated with Emperor Basil II to exchange the independent kingdom for territory under Byzantine suzerainty. According to the chronicler Thomas Artsruni, Seneqerim Johannes and his followers went to Cappadocia in 1023 with 14,000 warriors as well as women and children . Seneqerim Johannes administered as magistros strategist of Cappadocia and titular king his fief in Cappadocia and Lesser Armenia from Sebaste .

The cities of Arapgir and Akn are foundations of the Artsruni in Cappadocia.

Seneqerim Johannes was buried in his old homeland Vaspurakan in the Varak monastery in 1024. His wife Xošuš was later buried next to him. Vaspurakan remained Byzantine until the Seljuk Turks invaded in 1065.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gérard Dédéyan (éd.): Les Arméniens entre Grecs, Musulmans et croisés. Etude sur les pouvoirs arméniens dans le Proche-Orient méditerrannéen (1068 - 1150) , Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 2003, ISBN 972-8767-14-5 , vol. 2, p. 1524
  2. ↑ a b Rouben Paul Adalian: Historical Dictionary of Armenia The Scarecrow Pres, Lanham, Maryland and Oxford, 2002 ISBN 0-8108-4337-4 , p 22
  3. ↑ a b c Robert H. Hewsen: Armenia. A Historical Atlas , The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2001, p. 116
  4. ^ Robert W. Thomson (Ed.), Thomas Artsruni, History of the House of the Artsrunik. Detroit, Wayne State University Press 1985, 370

literature

  • Robert W. Thomson (Ed.), Thomas Artsruni , History of the House of the Artsrunik. Detroit, Wayne State University Press 1985.
personal data
SURNAME Seneqerim Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senek'erim; Senek'erim Johannes; Senekerim; Senekerim Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Vaspurakan
DATE OF BIRTH 968 or 969
DATE OF DEATH 1024 or 1026 or 1027