Gurgen of Iberia information

Gurgen (Georgian: გურგენი) also known as Gurgen Magistros, Gurgen II Magistros (also transliterated as Gourgen and in some sources Gurgan) of the Bagrationi...

to: Gurgen of Iberia Gurgen I of Tao Gurgen II of Tao Gurgen Margaryan, Armenian soldier Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian military commander Gurgen Askaryan...

natural father Gurgen to be crowned as King of Iberia on the death of Bagrat II in 994, thus making Bagrat a ruler of the two and heir apparent of another two...

son of Gurgen of Iberia, titular king of Iberia, and Gurandukht, daughter of King George II of Abkhazia. Still young, the crown prince of Iberia was designated...

unsuccessful insurrection (523) of the Georgians under Gurgen had severe consequences for the country. Thereafter, the king of Iberia had only nominal power,...

unsuccessful insurrection (523) of the Georgians under Gurgen had severe consequences for the country. Thereafter, the king of Iberia had only nominal power,...

Gurgen I (Georgian: გურგენ I) (died 891) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti. He was a presiding prince of Iberia with the Byzantine...

his own son and co-king Gurgen during a brief split among the Bagratids. By 978, Gurgen had become a de facto king of Iberia, while his son Bagrat III...

relative Gurgen II of Tao. Both Gurgen and David resolutely opposed the Byzantine takeover of the Bagratid town of Artanuji, a fief of Gurgen's father-in-law...

1st half of the 8th century. During his reign Leon actively battled invading Arabs and had close diplomatic contacts with the prince of Iberia and Kakheti...

Duchy of Kartli, giving it to his adopted son, who would later be known as Bagrat III of Georgia, with his biological father, Gurgen of Iberia, as regent...

Byzantino-Georgian exchange of diplomatic marriages. The first Georgian king to assume the title "mepet[a]mepe" was Gurgen of Iberia, but the term would become...

of Iberia, but the provincial rulers of Kakheti in the east. Guaram III had a son also called Guaram (or Gurgen), and two anonymous daughters, one of...

ruler of Iberia of that name, after Adarnase III of Iberia, of the Nersianid dynasty From here continues the line of presiding princes of Iberia, now as...

not only as king of the Iberians, but also as Kouropalates of Iberia, without changing the pro-Armenian orientation of Adarnase. Gurgen's sons nevertheless...

(Γουργένης, Hellenized form of Middle Persian Gurgēn) of the Byzantine chronicler Theophanes. Guaram was born to Leo, the younger son of king Vakhtang I Gorgasali...

latter engineered a coup with the support of a party of nobles, most importantly his father-in-law, Gurgen II of Tao (r. 918–941). The conflict lasted for...

territories as Duke of Lower Tao. However, his young age led Byzantium to appoint David's cousin Gurgen as Kouropalates in Iberia, which would lead to...

Nakhichevan and the city of Dvin. He made alliances with Gurgen of Iberia and Bagrat III of Georgia, whose armies defeated Mamlan, the emir of Khorasan, in 998...

sometimes known as Gurgen, of the Guaramid dynasty, was a presiding prince of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia) in 748. Son of Guaram III of Iberia. Guaram IV...

biologically of Gurgen of Iberia, last holder of the distinction of King of the Georgians. From these two fatherhoods, George finds himself the heir of an ancient...

King of Abkhazia from circa 780 to 828. He was the nephew and successor of Leon I of the Anchabadze dynasty and from maternal side grandson of the reigning...

Principality of Iberia or Principality of Kartli (Georgian: ქართლის საერისმთავრო, romanized: kartlis saerismtavro) was an early medieval aristocratic regime...

(modern-day Tbilisi). Soon he had to face the alliance of the King Smbat I of Armenia and Adarnase IV of Iberia. The two men collaborated in defeating Constantine...

a queen of Kartli by marriage to Gurgen of Kartli, and regent during the minority of her son from 975. She was a daughter of King George II of Abkhazia...

works names the Georgian Bagrationi monarchs David III of Tao, Bagrat II of Iberia and Gurgen of Iberia. His shifts in pitch and note-length marked by neumes...

as Theodosius the Sorrowed) was King of the Abkhazians from circa 975 to 978. He was the fourth son of George II of the Anchabadze dynasty. He succeeded...

chapel, situated to the southwest of the cathedral, King Gurgen I (died 1008) dedicated the chapel to the Holy Mother of God. Constructed in 1006, the chapel...

principality of Tao, and defended this new possession from attacks by Gurgen of Iberia in 1001–1002. After arranging a ten-year truce with the Fatimids in...

relative Ashot I of Iberia, ruler of Tao-Klarjeti, against Principality of Kakheti and its ally Arab emir of Tiflis, that invaded Inner Iberia (Shida Kartli)...