Relief of Ashot I at Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia
Presiding prince of Iberia
Reign
813–826/830
Predecessor
Stephen III
Successor
Bagrat I of Iberia Adarnase II of Tao-Klarjeti Guaram Mampali
Died
c. 826/830 Nigali valley
Issue
Bagrat I of Iberia Adarnase II of Tao-Klarjeti Guaram Mampali Bagrationi, Queen of Abkhazia
Dynasty
Bagrationi dynasty
Father
Adarnase I of Tao-Klarjeti
Religion
Georgian Orthodox Church
Ashot I the Great (Georgian: აშოტ I დიდიashot I didi) (died 826/830) was a presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia), first of the Bagratid family to have attained to this office c. 813. From his base in Tao-Klarjeti, he fought to enlarge the Bagratid territories and sought the Byzantine protectorate against the Arab Muslim encroachment until being murdered c. 826. Ashot is also known as Ashot I Kouropalates for the Byzantine title of kouropalates that he bore. A patron of Christian culture and a friend of the church, he has been canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church.[1]
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death. Bagrat inherited from his father AshotI the office of presiding prince ofIberia and the Byzantine title of curopalates. The 10th-century Georgian...
Mampali. Together, Ashot and Bagrat defeated Guaram. In 881, Ashot formed an alliance with David IofIberia and Adarnase IV ofIberia, Bagrat's son and...
953–977 Ashot IV, Qadj (Ashot the Brave), 1021–1039/1040 AshotIofIberia (AshotI Kuropalates) (died 830), King of Tao-Klarjeti Ashot II of Tao Kuropalates...
Vakhtang IofIberia in the 5th century, and received the Byzantine protection. Being recognized as the presiding prince and curopalates ofIberia, Ashot fought...
suzerain. Iberia thus became a tributary state and an Arab emir was installed in Tbilisi about 653. At the beginning of the 9th century, eristavi AshotI (813–830)...
princes of Iberia, now as kings ofIberia. Usually counted as I, but he was the second Ashot ruling in Tao, after Ashot the Great. Sometimes rendeed as...
of the Bagratid family, in the person ofAshotI (r. 786/813–830) to gather their inheritance in parts ofIberia. Having accepted the Byzantine protection...
legitimate leader ofIberia, though he paid tribute to the Abbasid Caliphate. Moreover, he sought a pro-Armenian policy by backing AshotI Bagratuni against...
brother of David II upon whose death he succeeded as “King of the Iberians” in 937, and ofAshot II upon whose death he succeeded as the Byzantine dignitary...
by five children: David II ofIberia (died 937) Ashot II of Tao (died 954) Bagrat Magistros (died 945) Sumbat IofIberia (died 958) Anonymous daughter...
Georgian region ofIberia; Vasak's grandson AshotI became the first ruler ofIberia from the Bagratuni dynasty c. 813. This branch of the dynasty would...
Adarnase IV ofIberia as king ofIberia, David's control was limited to the duchies of Queli-Javakheti, and Lower Tao as the core lands of Inner Iberia (Shida...
of Leo I". History of the Later Roman Empire. Vol. 1. New York: Dover Publications. pp. 323, note 1. ISBN 978-0-486-14338-5. After the coronation of the...
Boleslav I (Catholic) Nana ofIberia, queen consort of Mirian III ofIberia (Orthodox) Nuno Álvares Pereira, ancestor of the Portuguese House of Braganza...
state established by AshotI Bagratuni of the Bagratuni dynasty in the early 880s following nearly two centuries of foreign domination of Greater Armenia under...
dynasty, and son of Ashot I. He is the father ofAshot II (known as Ashot Yerkat) and Abas I. Smbat I was crowned king in 892 in Shirakavan (Yerazgavors)...
title of Prince of Iberia which was recognized by his brother-in-law AshotIofIberia. Cyrille Toumanoff, Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité...
with the Byzantine title of curopalates. Ashot was the second son of Adarnase IV, king ofIberia/Kartli and younger brother of David II (r. 923–937). David...
III), of the Guaramid dynasty, was a presiding prince ofIberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia) from 779/780 to 786. He was the son of Guaram IV ofIberia. Stephen...
branch, under AshotI Curopalates, as princes of Caucasian Iberia. Taking advantage of the turmoil in the Caliphate after the death of Harun al-Rashid...
the Muslim Arabs to the lands of Greater Armenia, Caucasian Iberia, and Caucasian Albania, following their conquest of these regions in the 7th century...
Iberia from Javakheti, one of the southern provinces ofIberia, and, following the course of the River Kura, she arrived in Mtskheta, the capital of the...
(d. 901) AshotI, prince ofIberia (or 830) Ashot Msaker, prince of Armenia Bai Xingjian, Chinese poet and writer (b. 776) Beornwulf, king of Mercia Fujiwara...
Nakhichevan and the city of Dvin. He made alliances with Gurgen ofIberia and Bagrat III of Georgia, whose armies defeated Mamlan, the emir of Khorasan, in 998...
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