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. ...
Mirian or Mihr ( ka, მირიანი; მირი) was a
Georgian 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 and brother of Prince
Archil of Kakheti. 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.
Its population, the Colchians are generally though ...
(Western Georgia). The second half of the royal treasury was left to his second son, the future ruler
Archil of Kakheti "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.
*anonymous daughter, wife of Adarnase Adarnasiani
*anonymous daughter, wife of Duke Varazman
*anonymous daughter, wife of
Juansher Juansheriani
*Gurandukht, wife of
Leon I of Abkhazia
References
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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
741 deaths
Chosroid dynasty