Leon II of Abkhazia

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Leon II
ლეონ II
King of Abkhazia
Reign778–828
SuccessorTheodosius II
Archon of Abasgia
Reign767–778
PredecessorLeon I
HouseAnchabadze

Leon II (Georgian: ლეონ II) was King of Abkhazia from circa 780 to 828. He was the nephew and successor of Leon I of the Anchabadze dynasty and from maternal side grandson of the reigning Khagan of the Khazars (possibly Bihar or Baghatur).

Life

Leon II exploited an existing dynastic union to acquire

Tao-Klarjeti
by means of the dynasty marriages.

During his reign Abkhazian kingdom was the stage of the state building and was less active in the matter of spreading the borders of the kingdom to the East. After obtaining of the state independence, the matter of the church independence became the main problem. Leon II was not able to conduct the independent church policy till it was dependent on Constantinople. Besides, the empire tried, with the help of the church to influence the inner and foreign policy of the kingdom. Church split of Abkhazia from Constantinople in Vakhushti Bagrationi's opinion had place during Leon II reign.

Family

Leon married an unknown princess:

Issue

Genealogy

See also

References

  1. Vakhushti Bagrationi
    , The History of Egrisi, Abkhazeti or Imereti, part 1.

Sources

  • Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 3rd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2018.
  • Peter B. Golden
    . Khazar Studies: An Historio-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980.
Preceded by
King of Abkhazia

767/68–811/12
Succeeded by