Bagrat I of Iberia

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Bagrat I of Iberia
Presiding prince of Iberia
Reign830–876
PredecessorAshot I of Iberia
SuccessorDavid I of Iberia
Died876
IssueDavid I of Iberia
DynastyBagrationi dynasty
FatherAshot I of Iberia
ReligionGeorgian Orthodox Church

Bagrat I (Georgian: ბაგრატ I) (died 876), of the Bagratid dynasty, was a presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia) from 830 until his death.

Bagrat inherited from his father Ashot I the office of presiding prince of Iberia and the Byzantine title of curopalates. The 10th-century Georgian writer Giorgi Merchule maintains that Bagrat was confirmed as curopalates, following his father, with the agreement of his brothers — Adarnase, and Guaram.[1] Bagrat shared with his brothers the patrimonial holdings, but which lands he actually possessed is not directly indicated in the medieval sources. He probably ruled over a part of Tao and Kola (now in Turkey).[2]

Bagrat I found himself in a constant struggle with the Arabs, the Abasgians and the Kakhetians over the possession of central Iberia (Shida Kartli). In 842, he joined the Arab expedition led by Muhammad ibn Khalid, the Caliph’s viceroy in the Caucasus, against the rebel emir of Tbilisi, Sahak ibn Ismail, and his Kakhetian allies. In turn, the Caliph recognized Bagrat the prince of Iberia-Kartli. The expedition ended fruitlessly and Bagrat had to make peace with Sahak. In August 853, Bagrat joined the Caliph’s second expedition against Sahak, this time led by Bugha the Turk who took Tbilisi and had the emir executed. As a result, Bagrat was able to regain Shida Kartli, but only for a brief time as the resurgent Abasgians forced him out of this region.

Like his father Ashot, Bagrat was a patron of the large-scale monastic movement in Klarjeti. He granted the monk Grigol Khandzteli material help to build the monastery church at Khandzta and helped build the monasteries of Shatberdi and Ishkhani.

Bagrat I was married to a daughter of the Armenian prince Smbat VIII Bagratuni, and had three sons: his oldest son David who succeeded him as the presiding prince and curopalates; his second oldest son Adarnase who died in the lifetime of his father; and his youngest son Ashot who died in 885.[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. ^ Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts, p. 387. Peeters Publishers, ISBN 90-429-1318-5
  2. ^ a b Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). Studies in Christian Caucasian History, pp. 488-490. 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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Preceded by Prince of Iberia & Curopalates
830–876 		Succeeded by
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