Varaz-Trdat II was the last

Mihranid The Mihranids were an Iranian family which ruled several regions of Caucasus from 330 to 821. They claimed to be of Sasanian Persian descent but were of Parthian origin. History The dynasty was founded when a certain Mihran, a distant relative o ...

king of

Caucasian Albania Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus: mostly in what is now Azerbaijan (where both of its capitals were located). The modern endonyms for the area are ''Aghwank'' and ''Aluank'', among ...

from 800 to 812/822 and the son of the previous ruler Stephanos I.

Life

After the death of his father in 800, he becomes the new ruler of the

Gardman Gardman ( hy, Գարդման), also known as Gardmank, was one of the eight cantons of the ancient province of Utik in the Kingdom of Armenia and simultaneously, together with the canton of Tuchkatak, an Armenian principality. It roughly corresp ...

region and the northern part of

. He continued to rely on an alliance with the

Khazar Khaganate The Khazars ; he, כּוּזָרִים, Kūzārīm; la, Gazari, or ; zh, 突厥曷薩 ; 突厥可薩 ''Tūjué Kěsà'', () were a semi-nomadic Turkic people that in the late 6th-century CE established a major commercial empire coverin ...

, which controlled the

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region. In alliance with the Khazars and

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princes he opposed the

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Movses Kaghankatvatsi Movses Kaghankatvatsi ( hy, Մովսէս Կաղանկատուացի ''Movses Kaġankatvac’i''), or Movses Daskhurantsi ( ''Movses Dasxuranc’i'') is the reputed author (or authors) of a tenth-century Classical Armenian historiographical work on ...

the History of the Caucasian Albanians ''The History of the Caucasian Albanians'' (or ''The History of the World of Aghvank''; hy, Պատմութիւն Աղուանից աշխարհի) by Movses Kaghankatvatsi is a history of eastern territories of Armenia ( Artsakh and Utik), as well ...

reports that he was killed and describes the incident: "In the same year the lord Narseh P'ifippean slew Varaz-Trdat and slaughtered his son on his mother's breast, stealing all his possessions. This Varaz-Trdat was of the Mihrakan family which inherited

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from father to son. He was the eighth ruler after Varaz-Grigor, the first prince of Albania". Varaz-Tiridates’ widow, however, succeeded in fleeing to Artsalkh with her daughter Sparama and there arranged a marriage between this daughter and

Atrnerseh Atrnerseh () (d. 870's) was an Armenian ruler of the Principality of Khachen. He was the son and successor of Sahl Smbatean. According to the 10th century Armenian historian Movses Kaghankatvatsi, Atrnerseh's family was descended from the Arrans ...

, prince of Khatchen, son of Sahl ibn Sunbat. Thus,

was united with the

principality of Khachen The Principality of Khachen ( hy, Խաչենի իշխանություն, Khacheni ishkhanutyun) was a medieval Armenian principality on the territory of historical Artsakh (present-day Nagorno-Karabakh). The provinces of Artsakh and Utik were ...

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