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Gurandukht or Guarandukht ( Georgian: გურანდუხტი, გუარანდუხტი, fl. 960–999) was a queen of Kartli by marriage to Gurgen of Kartli, and regent during the minority of her son from 975. She was a daughter of King George II of Abkhazia and wife of the Bagratid royal Gurgen of Kartli .
Gurandukht (Georgian: გურანდუხტი), also Guarandukht (გუარანდუხტი), is a feminine given name in Georgia, ultimately derived from the Iranian Bahramdukht. It was particularly popular among the medieval Georgian nobility.
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According to the Life of King of Kings David (ცხორებაჲ მეფეთ-მეფისა დავითისი), written c. 1123–1126, David was the only son of King George II (r. 1072–1089). The contemporaneous Armenian chronicler Matthew of Edessa mentions David's brother Totorme. The latter, according to the modern historian Robert W. Thomson, was his sister. The name of David's...
Marriages
Different sources mention David's two wives of whom one, unnamed, was an Armenian lady; the other, Gurandukht, a Cuman-Kipchak, is the only one who can be precisely identified. The Armenian chronicler Matthew of Edessa says that David's eldest son Demetrius was born from an Armenian woman. She is not mentioned in the surviving Georgian documents. A reference to the former wife of David, a king of Georgia, is found in the letter of Ansellus, cantor of the Holy Sepulchre, dating from c. 1120, w...
Children
The Life of King of Kings David mentions David's four children, two sons—Demetrius and Vakhtang—and two daughters—Tamar and Kata. Demetrius (Demetre), born c. 1093, was the eldest son of David IV and succeeded him to the throne of Georgia (r. 1125–1155). Vakhtang, whose birth c. 1118 is mentioned in passing by David's chronicler, is further known only from the Will of King David, a 12th-century document of questionable authenticity, which also gives his possible sobriquet Tsuata. There is a r...
Antelava, Ilia (2002). საქართველოს საისტორიო-წყაროთმცოდნეობითი ძიებანი [Studies in Georgian history and sources] (in Georgian). Tbilisi: Artanuji. ISBN 99928-973-7-6.Dostourian, Ara Edmond, ed. (1993). Armenia and the Crusades, Tenth to Twelfth Centuries: The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. ISBN 0819189537.Dumin, Stanislav, ed. (1996). Дворянские роды Российской империи. Том 3. Князья [Noble Families of the Russian Empire. Volume 3. The Princes] (in Russian). Moscow: Linkominvest. ISBN 5861530041.27 de abr. de 2022 · Otrok, known in Georgia as Atraka, son of Sharagan (i.e., Sharukan), after the victories of the Rus' Grand Prince Vladimir II Monomakh in 1109, fled to Georgia with some 40,000 followers, received baptism and entered the service of the Georgian king David IV of Georgia (c. 1118).
- "Артак", "Артык", "Отрак", "Отрок"
- member of nomadic Cuman tribe in, Ukraine
- circa 1088
- after 1125
Bagrat nació aprox. en 960 de Gurgen, un príncipe de la dinastía Bagrationi de Kartli, y su mujer, Gurandukht, hija del rey Jorge II de Abjasia. Siendo aún menor de edad, Bagrat fue adoptado por su pariente sin descendencia David III Kuropalates (r. 990-1000), príncipe de Tao y el gobernante más poderoso del Cáucaso .
- 7 de mayo de 1014jul., Panaskert o Tao
- Catedral de Bedia y Abjasia
Gurandukht and Gurgen were already jointly ruling as regents for Bagrat in Kartli, and in 978, they deposed her brother Theodosius and installed the eighteen-year-old Bagrat as King of Abkhazia. It was this political triumph that led Gurandukht and her son to sponsor the construction of Bedia Cathedral in the heart of Abkhazian territory.
2 de may. de 2022 · About Gurandukht. "Gurandukht, a daughter of "the supreme leader of the Cumans" Otrok (Atraka), was the only wife of David mentioned by his medieval Georgian biographer. He married her years before the recruitment of around 40,00 thousand of the Cuman-Kipchaks in the Georgian service, which David effected c. 1118.