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. T ...

Stephanoz ( ka, სტეფანოზ) 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 ...

. 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 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 ...

and Prince

Mirian of Kakheti Prince Mirian or Mihr ( ka, მირიანი; მირი) was a Georgian prince of the royal Chosroid dynasty reigning between 736 and 741. Life He was son of Prince Stephen of Kakheti and brother of Prince Archil of Kakheti. According to ...

. Stephen is mentioned in the inscriptions at Ateni Sioni Church dated 735 AD.გ. აბრამიშვილი, სტეფანოზ მამფალის ფრესკული წარწერა ატენის სიონში, თბილისი, 1977

References

{{reflist 7th-century monarchs in Europe Princes of Kakheti 7th-century births 8th-century monarchs in Asia 8th-century deaths Chosroid dynasty