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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.
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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The name of David's mother, Elene, is recorded in a margin note in the Gospel of Matthew from the Tskarostavi monastery; she is otherwise unattested. [3] 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.
Tamar David X: Georgian - George IX: Tamar Jaqeli: Luarsab I: Georgian: Principality of Meskheti: Tamar of Imereti: Simon I: Georgian: Kingdom of Imereti: David XI: Nestan-Darejan of Kakheti: George X: Georgian: Kingdom of Kakheti: Mariam Tamar Lipartiani Luarsab II: Georgian: Principality of Mingrelia: Elene Bagrat VII: Georgian: Kingdom of ...
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