Prince
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. Th ...
Juansher II ( ka, ჯუანშერ II) was a
Georgian
Georgian may refer to:
Common meanings
* Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country)
** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
prince of royal
Chosroid dynasty
The Chosroid dynasty (a Latinization of ''Khosro anni'', ka, ხოსრო ანები), also known as the Iberian Mihranids, were a dynasty of the kings and later the presiding princes of the early Georgian state of Iberia from the 4t ...
. Prince of
Kakheti
Kakheti ( ka, კახეთი ''K’akheti''; ) is a region (mkhare) formed in the 1990s in eastern Georgia from the historical province of Kakheti and the small, mountainous province of Tusheti. Telavi is its capital. The region comprises eigh ...
in 786-807.
[მ.ლორთქიფანიძე, რ.მეტრეველი, საქართველოს მეფეები, თბილისი, 2007]
He was a son of Prince
Archil of Kakheti
Prince Archil the Martyr ( ka, არჩილი) was an 8th-century Georgian Orthodox Christian royal prince of the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti.
Life
Archilʼs biography is related in the medieval corpus of Georgian chronicles known as ...
. Juansher II married in 790 Princess
Latavri of Tao-Klarjeti, daughter of
Adarnase I of Tao-Klarjeti Adarnase ( ka, ადარნასე) was a late 8th-century nobleman of Iberia (Kartli, modern Georgia) and the founder of the Georgian Bagratid dynasty. He established himself in Tao-Klarjeti as a vassal of the Chosroid dynasty of Iberia and, ...
.
The couple remained childless after the death of Juansher in 807. Juansher received the title of Prince of Iberia which was recognized by his brother-in-law
Ashot I of Iberia
Ashot I the Great ( ka, აშოტ I დიდი ) (died 826/830) was a presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia), first of the Bagratid family to have attained to this office c. 813. From his base in Tao-Klarjeti, he fought to enlarge the ...
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8th-century monarchs in Europe
Princes of Kakheti
8th-century people from Georgia (country)
8th-century births
8th-century monarchs in Asia
9th-century deaths
807 deaths
Chosroid dynasty