Guaram Mampali
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Guaram, the mampali, (Georgian: გუარამ მამფალი) (died 882) was a Georgian Bagratid prince and the youngest son of Ashot I, the founder of the Bagratid dynasty of Iberia/Kartli.
Guaram shared the control over the patrimonial holdings of
Gogarene, which had been in possession of several areas on the Georgian-Armenian frontier, Guaram acquired Javakheti, Trialeti, Ashots, and Artani. The 10th-century hagiographer Giorgi Merchule praises Guaram's dignities and refers to him as "the great". [citation needed
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Prior to 876, Guaram handed over some of his possessions to his brothers, and gave Ashots to his
Klde-Karni and placed himself under suzerainty of Guaram's nephew David I the Curopalate soon after 876. These rearrangements left Guaram's son Nasra essentially with no inheritance and probably induced him in 881 to murder his cousin David I in a plot of which Guaram is reported by a medieval chronicler to have been ignorant. Guaram's younger son, Ashot, died in his father's lifetime, in 869. Guaram also had a daughter whose name is not recorded. She was married to two successive Abasgian rulers Adarnase and Bagrat I. Guaram spent his last years in retirement at the Opiza convent where he was buried after his death in 882.[1]
References
- ISBN 90-429-1318-5