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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]
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 ...
Tamar (daughter of David), daughter of biblical king David; Tamar, daughter of David IV of Georgia, who was married to Manuchihr III of Shirvan (c. 1112) and later became a nun. Tamar (goddess), deity in Georgian mythology; Tamar of Georgia (1160s–1213), ruled 1184–1213; Tamar, also known as Gürcü Hatun (fl. 1237–1286), Georgian princess
David bore the name of the biblical king-prophet, whose 78th descendant he was claimed to be. [1] Through his father, David had ancestors among the most prominent dynasties of the Caucasus. David's grandfather was King Bagrat IV of Georgia and his grandmother was an Alan princess Borena. Besides he had in-law relations in Constantinople.
Afterward, from 1259 until his death in 1293, he ruled the Kingdom of Western Georgia, under the name of David I. Tamar Gurju Khatun , who married her cousin, Sultan Kaykhusraw II . After his death in 1246, she married Mu'in al-Din Parwana as part of the preconditions for the peace settlement.
David IV of Georgia, a fresco from the Shio-Mgvime monastery Expansion of Kingdom of Georgia under David IV's reign. George II ceded the crown to his 16-year-old son David IV in 1089. Under the tutelage of his court minister, George of Chqondidi, David IV suppressed the feudal lords and centralized the power. In 1089–1100, he organized ...