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Tamar (Georgian: თამარი) (died after 1161) was a daughter of David IV, King of Georgia, and queen consort of Shirvan as the wife of Shirvanshah Manuchehr III, whom she married c. 1112. She became a nun at the monastery of Tigva in Georgia in widowhood.
David IV left the eastern Shirvan to his son-in-law, Manuchihr III as a Georgian protectorate. [13] David IV's battles were of great importance both for Georgia and, especially, for Shirvan. The joint struggle of the Georgians and the people of Shirvan ensured the independence of Shirvan from the Seljuk conquerors. From now on, Georgia and ...
Tamar and David had two children. In 1192 or 1194, the queen gave birth to a son, George-Lasha, the future king George IV. The daughter, Rusudan, was born c. 1195 and would succeed her brother as a sovereign of Georgia. [19]
Two years after Tamar's rape, Absalom invites all of David's other sons to a grand feast, subsequently ordering his servants to murder Amnon once he is drunk. [4] Following Amnon's death, Absalom flees to Geshur, where his maternal grandfather Talmai is reigning as king. [5] Tamar continues to stay at Absalom's house while he is in exile.
David IV's contemporary chronicler limits himself to mentioning the change of power as a coronation of the young prince by his father, [15] which pushes certain historians such as Cyril Toumanoff to suggest a co-regency between George II and David IV, at least until 1112, [11] while frescoes found in the Ateni Sioni Church depict him in monk's ...
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Its donor, or ktetor, was Tamar, daughter of the Georgian king David IV "the Builder" and the dowager-queen of Shirvan, who became a nun at Tigva and died there c. 1161. [2] By the early 18th-century, a crisis in Georgia had taken its toll on the monastery: Prince Vakhushti , in his Description of the Kingdom of Georgia , described the ...