This article is about the 10th-century Armenian king. For the 8th-century presiding prince of Armenia, see Ashot III Bagratuni.
Ashot III Bagratuni
A statue of Ashot III in Gyumri.
King of Armenia
Reign
953–77
Predecessor
Abas I
Successor
Smbat II
Died
January 3/May 20, 977
Burial
Ani/Horomos[1]
Spouse
Khosrovanuysh
Issue
Smbat II Gagik I Kiurike I Hripsime
Dynasty
Bagratuni
Father
Abas I
Religion
Armenian Apostolic
Ashot III (Armenian: Աշոտ Գ) was a king of Armenia, ruling the medieval kingdom of Bagratid Armenia from 952/53–77. Known as Ashot III the Merciful (Աշոտ Գ Ողորմած) and acknowledged by foreign rulers as the Shahanshah (king of kings) of Mets Hayk' (Greater Armenia), he moved his royal seat of residence to Ani and oversaw its development and of the kingdom as a whole. Armenia reached the height of its golden era during his reign and that of his sons and successors, Smbat II (977–89) and Gagik I (990–1020).[2]
^Manuk-Khaloyan, Armen, "In the Cemetery of their Ancestors: The Royal Burial Tombs of the Bagratuni Kings of Greater Armenia (890-1073/79)," Revue des Études Arméniennes 35 (2013), pp. 147-48, 164-65, 171-72.
^Garsoïan, Nina G. (1997), "The Independent Kingdoms of Medieval Armenia" in The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Volume I, The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century, ed. Richard G. Hovannisian. New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 164ff.
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