Esayi Hasan-Jalalyan (), Yesai or Esayi Hasan-Jalalyants ( - d. 1728) was an

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...

historian and catholicos of Aghvank (otherwise known as

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, effectively a part of

Armenian Church Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...

at this time) from 1702 (de facto, 1701) to 1728 from Hasan-Jalalyan family.

Life

His birthdate is not known. According to

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, his father was Velijan III (d. 1686), melik of Khachen. He was among the Armenian nobility who convened together and sent

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Jacob IV along

Israel Ori Israel Ori () (1658–1711) was a prominent figure of the Armenian national liberation movement and a diplomat that sought the liberation of Armenia from Persia and the Ottoman Empire. Early life Ori was born in 1658 in the village of Sisian in ...

to gather Western support for liberation of Christians, namely Armenians from

Safavid Empire Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

Catholicosate

After deaths of Simeon IV (1675-1701) and Eremia II (Esayi's uncle, 1676-1700), who were rival catholicoses of Aghvank, Esayi applied to Shah Sultan Husayn of Safavids in October–November of 1701 to be recognized as new catholicos and paid 50 gold. He was later consecrated as catholicos by Nahabed I of Armenia in 1702. Esayi used opportunity to broaden his influence to Russia during 10-month vacancy in Armenian See. However, another bishop, namely

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(1706-1736) declared his own catholicosate in

Yerits Mankants Monastery Yerits Mankants Monastery ( hy, Երից Մանկանց Վանք, lit= Three Youths Monastery) is a 17th-century Armenian monastery ''de facto'' in the Martakert Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, ''de jure'' in the Tartar District o ...

. Although in 1707, Alexander I of Julfa supported Esayi against Nerses, the latter kept claiming legitimacy. He went to Russia in 1711 with Israel Ori to meet

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

, however Israel died in

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and Esayi went back to Karabakh. Alexander's successor

Asdvadzadur of Armenia Catholicos Asdvadzadur was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1715 and 1725. As Catholicos, he secured an alliance with Peter the Great of Russia for aid against the expansionist Muslim powers of the Ottoman Empire and Persia ...

later took certain privileges of Esayi back to Armenian church in 1716, but returned these rights in 1719. Esayi was strongly pro-Russian and sent two letters - first on 23 September 1718 and second on 1 April 1721 - to Peter, requesting his assistance. He later went to visit Kartli king

Vakhtang VI Vakhtang VI ( ka, ვახტანგ VI), also known as Vakhtang the Scholar, Vakhtang the Lawgiver and Ḥosaynqolī Khan ( fa, حسین‌قلی خان, translit=Hoseyn-Qoli Xān) (September 15, 1675 – March 26, 1737), was a Georgian m ...

on 28 May 1722 and joined his army in his eventually unsuccessful rebellion against Safavids with promised aid from

. He managed to gather 10.000 troops from different meliks of Karabakh on 18 September 1722, However, Vakhtang, abandoned by his Russian allies, returned to

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in November 1722. Against the wishes of Asdvadzadur, he resisted to

Ahmed III Ahmed III ( ota, احمد ثالث, ''Aḥmed-i sālis'') was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687). His mother was Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at H ...

, when Ottoman armies invaded Azerbaijan using the opportunity in 1722 and supported

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. However after capture of

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by Ottomans on 28 September 1724 and following Treaty of Constantinople, when Russians recognized Ottoman ownership of Georgia and Armenia, Esayi had to submit alongside other feudals in the region. In July 1726, he accompanied by Karabakh beys, meliks and landlords, went to Barda to visit Sari Mustafa Pasha (son of

Gazi Hüseyin Pasha Gazi Hüseyin Pasha ("Hüseyin Pasha the Warrior"; died 1659), also known as Deli Hüseyin Pasha ("the Mad") or Sarı Hüseyin Pasha ("the Blonde") or Baltaoğlu Hüseyin Pasha ("of the Axe"), was an Ottoman military officer and statesman. He ...

and future son-in-law of the Sultan) for negotiations. According to some sources, he was accused of betrayal by other Armenian nobles and forced to commit suicide in 1728.

Work

He collected inscriptions of Karabakh monasteries (

Dadivank Dadivank ( hy, Դադիվանք) or Khutavank ( hy, Խութավանք, translation=monastery on the hillЖеан-Паул Лабурдетьте, Доминикуе Аузиас, Армения, Petit Futé, 2007 – p. 203) is an Armenian Ap ...

Katarovank Katarovank ( hy, Կատարովանք; az, Qatərəvəng) is an Armenian Apostolic monastery in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. It is located close to the village of Hin Tagher (Köhnə Tağlar). The mo ...

Goshavank Goshavank (; meaning "Monastery of Gosh"; previously known as Nor Getik) is a 12th- or 13th-century Armenian monastery located in the village of Gosh in the Tavush Province of Armenia. The impressive monastery which has remained in relatively goo ...

, Gandzasar, etc.), different manuscripts of Gospels. He is most famous for his incomplete work named "A brief history of Aghvank region", which is a description of the events of his time and reaches up to 1723. The book was first published in

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by Baghdasar Hasan-Jalalyan in 1836, later in French (1876) by

Marie-Félicité Brosset Marie-Félicité Brosset (24 January 1802 – 3 September 1880) was a French orientalist who specialized in Georgian and Armenian studies. He worked mostly in Russia. Early life and first works Marie-Félicité Brosset was born in Paris int ...

, Armenian (1868), Georgian (1971), Azerbaijani (1992).

References

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