Kamsarakan (Armenian: Կամսարական) was an Armenian noble family that was an offshoot of the House of Karen, also known as the Karen-Pahlav. The Karens were one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran and were of Parthian origin.[1]
In the Byzantine-Sasanian era, the Kamsarakan were mostly known for following a pro-Byzantine policy. In the late 8th century, they met their downfall as a result of participating in an uprising against Arab rule.
After the 8th century, a branch of the Kamsarakan, the Pahlavuni, rose to prominence. According to Cyril Toumanoff the Pahlavunis in turn had two branches: the Mkhargrdzeli, associated with the Kingdom of Georgia; and the Hethumids, associated with the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.[1]
Kamsarakan (Armenian: Կամսարական) was an Armenian noble family that was an offshoot of the House of Karen, also known as the Karen-Pahlav. The Karens were...
Simon Kamsarakan (Simon Rafiki Shahazizyan) (Armenian: Սիմոն Կամսարական, 1950, Ashtarak – 2011, Yerevan) was an Armenian physicist, public activist, a...
Nerseh or Nerses Kamsarakan (Armenian: Ներսեհ Կամսարական) was the presiding prince of Armenia in 689–691, backed by the Byzantine Empire. Armenia had been...
been attributed to Prince Nerseh Kamsarakan who commissioned the church during the 7th century; a time when the Kamsarakan family ruled over the region surrounding...
orthography: Պահլաւունի) was an Armenian noble family, a branch of the Kamsarakan, that rose to prominence in the late 10th century during the last years...
Arshavir II Kamsarakan was an Armenian prince from the Kamsarakan family. He was the son of Gazavon II, who immigrated to Sasanian-controlled Armenia...
were identified as one of the so-called "Parthian clans". The Armenian Kamsarakan family was a branch of the House of Karen. Following the defeat of the...
belonged to Mesopotamian Kurdish tribe of Babir, or ancestry from Armenian Kamsarakan dynasty. Alexei Lidov, 1991, The mural paintings of Akhtala, p. 14, Nauka...
and a possession of the Armenian Kamsarakan dynasty. By the early 9th century, the former territories of the Kamsarakans in Arsharunik and Shirak (including...
noble, ruled as the Hethumid dynasty until 1342. Toumanoff, C. (2010). "KAMSARAKAN". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume XV/5: Ḵamsa...
constructed in the 7th century as a possession of the noble House of Kamsarakan. Four centuries later the fortress and surrounding lands were purchased...
dynasty of Armenia. During the 1st century AD, Shirak was granted to the Kamsarakan family, who ruled over Kumayri during the Arsacid Kingdom of Armenia....
house Jinsajian, explained by Henning as the Armenian Arsacid family of Kamsarakan (Henning, 1943, p. 52, n. 4 1977, II, p. 115). Is that fact, or fiction...
Armenian Kamsarakan dynasty in the seventh century, served as the most important structure of the city. Located in the main citadel, the Kamsarakan palace...
and managed to capture several of them, including noblemen from the Kamsarakan family. Zarmihr shortly delivered the Armenian captives to Shapur Mihran...
too powerful, they set up a rival presiding prince of their own, Nerses Kamsarakan. When the Arabs invaded Armenia in turn in 690 to re-establish their control...
Later between the 5th and 7th centuries, the region was granted to the Kamsarakan and Amatuni families, under the Persian rule. Between the 7th and 9th...
Karenitis. An alternate theory contends that a local princely family, the Kamsarakans, the Armenian off-shoot of the Iranian Kārin Pahlav family, lent its...
Armenia and installed his own candidate, Nerses Kamsarakan, as its presiding prince, while Kamsarakan' predecessor, Ashot II Bagratuni, was killed in...
family over the Mamikonians (other notable families included the Artsruni, Kamsarakan, and Rshtuni) made this difficult to accomplish. Taking advantage of the...
the Shirak canton. During the 1st century AD, Shirak was granted to the Kamsarakan family, who ruled the region during the Arsacid Kingdom of Armenia. Following...
the period of Sasanian rule in Armenia, the region was granted to the Kamsarakan and Amatuni families. In the 9th century, Tsaghkunyats Dzor became part...
established Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia. The Armenian noble families of Kamsarakan and Pahlavuni ruled over Aragatsotn under the Bagratid kings. However...
Gregory I Mamikonian (662–684/85) Ashot II Bagratuni (686–690) Nerses Kamsarakan (689–691) Smbat VI Bagratuni (691–711) Ashot III Bagratuni (732–748) Gregory...
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