Guaramid dynasty
The Guaramid dynasty or Guaramiani (
curopalates by the Byzantine
imperial court.
History
This branch descended from Leo, son of the Iberian King
curopalates by the Byzantine
imperial court, a common honorific for friendly foreign rulers.
The Guaramids were related through marriage with the leading princely houses of Georgia – the Chosroids,
Bagratuni
prince Vasak produced the new Bagrationi dynasty, which would later become the last and the most long-lasting ruling family of Georgia. The extinction of Guaramid line by the late 8th century allowed their Bagratid cousins to gather their inheritance in the former Guaramid estates once they themselves had come to power.
The tenth-century Georgian chronicler
King David
.
Guaramid rulers of Iberia
- Guaram I (588–c. 590)
- Stephanus I (c. 590–627)
- Guaram II (684–c. 693)
- Guaram III (c. 693–c. 748)
- Guaram IV(748)
- Stephanus III (779/780–786)
References
- English-languageliterature.
- Toumanoff, Cyril. Introduction to Christian Caucasian History, II: States and Dynasties of the Formative Period. Traditio 17 (1961).
- Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts. Peeters Bvba ISBN 90-429-1318-5
- Rapp, Stephen H., Sumbat Davitis-dze and the Vocabulary of Political Authority in the Era of Georgian Unification. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 120, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec., 2000), pp. 570–576.