Member of the Zakarid dynasty (c. 1235 – after 1299)
Khoshak Zakarian, also Khuashak , Khvashak or Xvashak (born circa 1235, died after 1299),[1] was a female member of the Zakarid dynasty of Armenian Prince in the 14th century CE. She was the daughter of Avag Zakarian, an important Prince, Lord High Constable of Georgia, and Gvantsa, a noblewoman who went on to become queen of Georgia.[2] She was the granddaughter of Ivane I Zakarian (commander of Georgian-Armenian forces in the early 13th century).
After her father died, she was put under the protection of Sadun Artsruni, the powerful Atabeg (Governor General) of Georgia, who acted as a chamberlain to her.[3][4]
Khoshak was married to Shams al-Din Juvayni, a Persian statesman and member of the Juvayni family in 1269. He was an influential figure in early Ilkhanate politics, serving as Sahib-i divan (vizier and minister of finance) under four Mongol Ilkhans – Hulagu, Abaqa, Tekuder and Arghun Khan. He was the most powerful official of the Il-khanate.[5][2][6] Khoshak was possibly looking for a powerful guarantor in the person of Shams al-Din Juvayni, as she was being left out of her father's inheritance following the remarriage of her mother Gvantsa with the king of Georgia David VII.[7]
Khoshak moved to Persia in 1271—72, and lived there with her husband for 15 years.[8] They had a girl named Kuandze "Born from Princes" in Persian), who ultimately married the Armenian Prince Shahnshah II Zakarian, and two sons named Zakare and Atabeg.[9] She returned to her father’s house with her children in 1285, after her husband was behaded by the Mongol ruler in 1284.[10][11]
Khoshak is known for leaving an inscription in Armenian at Garni Temple. The large Armenian inscription was left on entryway by Princess Khoshak and Khoshak's son, Amir Zakare, in 1291. It records the release of the people of Garni from taxes in forms of wine, goats, and sheep.[12][13]
Her son Atabeg died in 1289, and Zakare inherited his parents' estate.[14]
^ abDashdondog, Bayarsaikhan (2011). The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)(PDF). Brill. p. 166. ISBN 978-90-04-18635-4.
^Kitagawa, p. 135.
^Dashdondog 2020.
^Margarian, Hayrapet (2006). "Ṣāḥib-dīvān Šams ad-dīn Muḥammad Juvainī and Armenia". Iran & the Caucasus. 10 (2): 167–180. doi:10.1163/157338406780346032. ISSN 1609-8498. JSTOR 4030920. The Sahib Divans, the highest ranking officials in the hierarchical system of the II-khanid state
^Judith G. Kolbas (2006), The Mongols in Iran: Chingiz Khan to Uljaytu 1220–1309, pp. 240, 382, 385. Routledge, ISBN 0700706674.
^Graffin, René, ed. (1922–1923). "LES INSCRIPTIONS ARMÉNIENNES D'ANI DE BAGNA1R ET DE MARMACHÈN". Revue de l'Orient Chrétien (1896-1946): 367–370, inscription 87. doi:10.31826/9781463220860-020. ISBN 978-1-4632-2086-0.
^Գասպարյան, Ռուբեն (16 January 2023). "Քարաշամբի Ս. Գևորգ եկեղեցին և նրա արձանագրությունը". «Էջմիածին» կրոնագիտական և հայագիտական ամսագիր=“Etchmiadzin” Theological and Armenological Journal=«Эчмиадзин» религиоведческий и арменоведческий журнал: 73–89. doi:10.56737/2953-7843-2022.9-73.
^Dashdondog, Bayarsaikhan (2011). The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)(PDF). Brill. pp. 77–78. ISBN 978-90-04-18635-4.
^Arakelian, B.N.; Karakhanian, G.H. (1962). Գառնի. 1949-1956 պեղումների արդյունքները [Garni. Volume III: Results of excavations of 1949-1956] (in Armenian). Yerevan: Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences Publishing. p. 45.
^Eastmond, Antony (1 January 2017). Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia. Cambridge University Press. p. 163. doi:10.1017/9781316711774.007.
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