Adarnase II of Tao-Klarjeti

Adarnase II, sometimes known as Adarnase I,^[1] (Georgian: ადარნასე) was a Georgian Bagratid prince and a co-ruler of Tao-Klarjeti with his brothers — Bagrat I Kuropalates and Guaram Mampali — with the title of eristavt-eristavi ("duke of dukes") (830-c. 870).

Biography

The name Adarnase derives from Middle Persian Ādurnarsēh, with the second component of the word (Nase) being the Georgian attestation of the Middle Persian name Narseh, which ultimately derives from Avestan nairyō.saŋya-.^[2] The Middle Persian name Narseh also exists in Georgian as Nerse.^[2] The name Ādurnarsēh appears in the Armenian language as Atrnerseh.^[3]

Adarnase was the oldest son of the Georgian presiding prince Ashot I and inherited all the lands west to the Arsiani Range with the exception of Shavsheti and Lower Tao (now in Turkey).^[4] After Adarnase's death c. 870, his possessions were equally divided among his sons: Gurgen obtained Tao, while Sumbat received Klarjeti.

Family

Adarnase was married to Anastasia (Bevreli), granddaughter of George I of Abkhazia. Their children were:^[5]

Gurgen I of Tao (died 891), Kouropalates (881–891);
Ashot (died 867);
Sumbat I of Klarjeti (died 889);
An unnamed daughter, who married Sparapet Abbas, brother of Ashot I of Armenia.

References

↑ The numbering of successive rulers in the early Bagratid period is very confused in that it moves between the different branches of the family.
1 2 Chkeidze, Thea (2001). "GEORGIA v. LINGUISTIC CONTACTS WITH IRANIAN LANGUAGES". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. X, Fasc. 5. pp. 486–490.
↑ Rapp, Stephen H. Jr (2014). The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature. Routledge. p. 335. ISBN 978-1-4724-2552-2.
↑ Ronald G. Suny (1994). The making of the Georgian nation. Indiana University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-253-20915-3.
↑ Metreveli, Roin (2003). ბაგრატიონები. სამეცნიერო და კულტურული მემკვიდრეობა [Scientific and Cultural Heritage of the Bagrationis] (in Georgian and English). Tbilisi: Neostudia. Table 2. ISBN 99928-0-623-0.

[1] The numbering of successive rulers in the early Bagratid period is very confused in that it moves between the different branches of the family.

[Iranica-2] 1 2 Chkeidze, Thea (2001). "GEORGIA v. LINGUISTIC CONTACTS WITH IRANIAN LANGUAGES". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. X, Fasc. 5. pp. 486–490.

[3] Rapp, Stephen H. Jr (2014). The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature. Routledge. p. 335. ISBN 978-1-4724-2552-2.

[Suny-4] Ronald G. Suny (1994). The making of the Georgian nation. Indiana University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-253-20915-3.

[5] Metreveli, Roin (2003). ბაგრატიონები. სამეცნიერო და კულტურული მემკვიდრეობა [Scientific and Cultural Heritage of the Bagrationis] (in Georgian and English). Tbilisi: Neostudia. Table 2. ISBN 99928-0-623-0.

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