Ashot IV Bagratuni (Armenian: Աշոտ Դ Բագրատունի), better known as Ashot Msaker (Armenian: Աշոտ Մսակեր, "Ashot the Meat Eater / the Carnivorous"), reputedly for his refusal to refrain from eating meat during Lent, was an Armenian prince from the Bagratid family. A fugitive from the failed uprising in 775 against Arab rule in Armenia, where his father was killed, over the next decades he gradually expanded his domains and established a predominant role for himself in the country's affairs, becoming recognized by the Abbasid Caliphate as presiding prince of Armenia from 806 until his death in 826.
Ashot IV Bagratuni (Armenian: Աշոտ Դ Բագրատունի), better known as AshotMsaker (Armenian: Աշոտ Մսակեր, "Ashot the Meat Eater / the Carnivorous"), reputedly...
Ashot or Ashod (Armenian: Աշոտ) is an Armenian given name. Notable persons with that surname include: AshotMsaker (Ashot the Carnivorous) (died 826)...
dynasty. Ashot was born around 820 to Smbat VIII Bagratuni and his wife Hripsime. Smbat VIII was sparapet (supreme commander) and the son of AshotMsaker, the...
and Tayk. Meanwhile, AshotMsaker's uncle, Vasak, established himself in the Georgian region of Iberia; Vasak's grandson Ashot I became the first ruler...
opportunity for the resurgence of Bagratuni leadership under AshotMsaker [the 'Meat-Eater']". Ashot began to annex the lands that formerly belonged to the...
beginning of the 9th century, when AshotMsaker was Prince of Armenia (790–826). As a prince of Taron, he is counted as Ashot I (804–826). After his death,...
Caliphate. He was killed in the Battle of Bagrevand. He was the father of AshotMsaker, who restored the family's fortunes in the early 9th century. Dadoyan...
Hamazasp II, Prince (800–836). Married to a daughter of AshotMsaker of the Bagratuni family. Ashot I Abulabus Artsruni, Prince (836–852). Son of Hamazasp...
ibn Qurra, Muslim astronomer and physician (d. 901) Ashot I, prince of Iberia (or 830) AshotMsaker, prince of Armenia Bai Xingjian, Chinese poet and writer...
daughter to Smbat VII Bagratuni, constable of Armenia. His grandson AshotMsaker ("the Carnivorous") became forefather of the Bagratuni rulers of Armenia...
of Judith of Bavaria Wihomarc, Breton chieftain 826 Ashot I, prince of Iberia (or 830) AshotMsaker, prince of Armenia Bai Xingjian, Chinese poet and writer...
carrying off 16,000 inhabitants as slaves. Harun al-Rashid appoints AshotMsaker ("the Carnivorous") as the new presiding prince of Armenia. The Bagratids...
Harran in 812/813. In c. 816, in response to an invitation from Prince AshotMsaker to debate the Chalcedonian Theodore Abu Qurrah, Quriaqos sent Nonnus...
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