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Not to be confused with Nasra, Ranaghat or Nasra, Idlib.

Nasra or Nasri (Georgian: ნასრა) (died 888) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti involved and eventually killed in a dynastic war with his relatives.

The oldest and only surviving son of Guaram Mampali, Nasra murdered his cousin David I, curopalates of Iberia, in 881. The reason for committing this crime probably was that Guaram Mampali prior to his death had given away his all territories which had practically left Nasra without an inheritance. After the murder, Nasra fled to the Byzantine territory from where he was retrieved by his brother-in-law Bagrat I of Abasgia. Bagrat also managed to secure the Byzantine military aid and invaded the Bagratid possessions on Nasra's behalf. Anxious to counterbalance the Byzantine influence in the Caucasus, Ashot I of Armenia interfered in support of David I’s son Adnarnase. Thus, a Bagratid dynastic feud evolved into a regional conflict. Nasra succeeded in taking the forts of Odzrkhe, Juaristsikhe and Lomsianta, but was finally defeated, captured and put to death at Aspindza.[1][2]

Genealogy

Georgian monarchs family tree of Bagrationi dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti[3][4]
Ancient
MONARCHS
of Iberia
Adarnase I
founder of the dynasty;
Prince of Tao
r. ~780 (775/786)
d. 807		daughter of
Nerse
Ashot I
Prince of Iberia
r.813–826		Latavri
Princess of Iberia
Adarnase II
co-ruler
r.830–867		Bagrat I
Prince of Iberia
r.826–876		Guaram Mampali
co-ruler
r.830–881
Gurgen I
Grand Duke of Tao
r.881–891		Ashot the Beautiful
d. 867		Sumbat I
Grand Duke of Klarjeti
r.870–889		AdarnaseDavid I
Prince of Iberia
r.876–881		AshotNasra
Grand Duke of Samtskhe,
Shavsheti and Artaani
r.881–888
Ashot the Immature
Grand Duke of Tao
r.908–918		Adarnase III
Grand Duke of Tao
r.891–896		Bagrat I
Grand Duke of Klarjeti
r.889–900		David I
Grand Duke of Klarjeti
r.889–943		Adarnase IV[a]
Prince of Iberia
r.881–888
King of the Iberians
r.888–923
David
Grand Duke of Tao
r.896–908		Gurgen
Grand Duke of Tao
r.918–941		Dinar
Queen of Hereti		Adarnase IIAshot the SwiftDavid
d. 908		Gurgen ISumbat II
Grand Duke of Klarjeti
r.961–966		David II
King of the Iberians
r.923–937		Bagrat I
Grand Duke of Tao
r.941–945		Sumbat I
King of the Iberians
r.954–958		Ashot II
Grand Duke of Tao
r.937–954
Bagrat
d. 922		Gurgen
d. 968		David II
Grand Duke of Klarjeti
r.988–993		Bagrat II
d. 988		Adarnase V
Grand Duke of Tao
r. 945–961		Adarnase IV
d. 983		Bagrat II
King of the Iberians
r.958–994
Gurgen[c]Sumbat III[c]
Grand Duke of Klarjeti
r.993–1011		David III[b]
Grand Duke of Tao
r. 966–1001		Bagrat II
Grand Duke of Tao
r. 961–966		Gurgen
King of the Iberians
r.994–1008
Demetrius
d. 1028		Bagrat III of Klarjeti
King of Klarjeti
r.1027–1028		Bagrat III
King of Georgia
r.1008–1014
BAGRATIONI
of united Georgia

Notes

  1. ^
    Adarnase IV restored Georgian kingship in 888[5] as the Kingdom of the Iberians and this would go on to dominate the political life of Georgia for a thousand years.[6]
  2. ^
    David III, being childless, took advice from the Georgian aristocracy and adopted his kin, prince Bagrat in 975.[7] This will lead and pave the way for the unification of Georgia.[8]
  3. ^
    King Bagrat III, the first monarch of unified Georgia was ruthless in his state administration. While visiting Castle of Panaskerti in Tao, king summoned his two cousins, Sumbat III and Gurgen. They were arrested and executed. Sumbat’s son Bagrat, and Gurgen’s son Demetrius, escaped to the Byzantine Empire. The Bagrationi line of Tao was already extinct since 941;[9] now with purging his own cousins the line of Klarjeti was also gone and no rival could ever claim the Georgian throne.[10]

References

  1. ^ Suny, Ronald Grigor (1994), The Making of the Georgian Nation, p. 30. Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-20915-3
  2. ^ Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). Studies in Christian Caucasian History, p. 490. Georgetown University Press.
  3. ^ Settipani, p. 540
  4. ^ Rayfield (2013) location: 9218
  5. ^ Rayfield (2013) location: 1337
  6. ^ Rapp (2016) location: 5454
  7. ^ Rayfield (2013) location: 1379
  8. ^ Rayfield (2013) location: 1338-1384
  9. ^ Rayfield (2013) location: 1323
  10. ^ Rayfield (2013) location: 1502

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