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 ...

Mirian or Mihr ( ka, მირიანი; მირი) 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 the 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 4 ...

reigning between 736 and 741.

Life

He was son of Prince

Stephen of Kakheti Prince Stephanoz ( ka, სტეფანოზ) was a Georgian prince of the royal Chosroid dynasty. He was the Prince of Kakheti from 685 to 736. He was son of Prince Adarnase II of Iberia. He had two sons, Prince Archil of Kakheti and Prince ...

and brother 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 ...

. According to the chronicle his father divided between his two sons the royal treasure of silver and gold jewels before taking refuge to

Colchis In Greco-Roman geography, Colchis (; ) was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi ( ka, ეგრისი) located on the coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia (country), Georgia. Its population, the Colchians a ...

(Western Georgia). The second half of the royal treasury was left to his second son, the future ruler

"the Martyr", who remained in Kakheti. The reign of Mirian was brief. He was seriously injured in a fight against the Arab forces, he died, leaving the throne to his brother.Marie-Félicité Brosset, Histoire de la Géorgie depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’au XIXe siècle, v. 1-7, Saint-Pétersbourg, 1848-58, p. 237.

Family

Mirian had 7 daughters. Future husbands for his daughters had been assigned by his brother Archil. Names of most of the princesses are not known. *anonymous daughter, wife of Guaram IV of Iberia *anonymous daughter, wife of Pitiakhsh (Arshusha VI?), a descendant of Peroz, Duke of Trialeti *anonymous daughter, wife of Nersianid Prince Nerse I Nersiani. They had son

Adarnase III of Iberia Adarnase III ( ka, ადარნასე III), of the Nersianid Dynasty, was a presiding prince of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia) from c. 748 to 760. Adarnase was a son of Prince Nerse I Nersiani by his wife, third daughter of Mirian of Kak ...

. *anonymous daughter, wife of Adarnase Adarnasiani *anonymous daughter, wife of Duke Varazman *anonymous daughter, wife of

Juansher Juansheriani Juansher Juansheriani ( ka, ჯუანშერ ჯუანშერიანი) (fl. c. 790–800Toumanoff, Cyril (1963). ''Studies in Christian Caucasian History'', pp. 24, 25, 254. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. or 11th century) ...

*Gurandukht, wife of

Leon I of Abkhazia Leon I of Abkhazia, hereditary prince (Eristavi) of Abkhazia, ruling between 720–740 and a vassal to the Byzantine Emperor. The ''Divan of the Abkhazian Kings'' mentions that his reign took place in the 1st half of the 8th century. During his re ...

References

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