Samtskhe (Jaqeli)

Who he is

Name

Ivane-Qvarqvare of Tsikhisjvari (Tsikhisjvareli), founder of the new Jaqeli line (likeliest; see research)

Title

Lord of the Jaqeli lands in Samtskhe

Since

Not pinned (after Botso Jaqeli's disgrace, which followed his part in the revolt of 1191)

Born

Not pinned; active about 1195-1247

Family

The Tsikhisjvareli are, like the Jaqeli, an offshoot of the Chorchaneli. The dispossessed Jaqeli (the Botsosdze) survive in minor standing.

Confidence

low

Wikipedia's House of Jaqeli: under Tamar Botso Jaqeli fell into disgrace and his title and most of his lands passed to Ivane-Qvarqvare of Tsikhisjvari (fl. about 1195-1247). The year of the transfer is not given; it is likely but not certain that it had happened by 1 January 1200.

Overlord

Tamar

What it holds

• The Jaqeli valleys of Samtskhe: Potskhovi (Adigeni), Uraveli and Jaqi round Akhaltsikhe (the town itself is the Akhaltsikheli's)
• The upland pastures towards Abastumani

How it was acquired

Royal grant after Botso Jaqeli's disgrace (date not pinned).

Allies and rivals

Rivals: the dispossessed Botsosdze; neighbours the Akhaltsikheli.

How things stand that morning

Probably held by Ivane-Qvarqvare of Tsikhisjvari under the crown; not pinned.

Wealth

Valley farming, timber, the roads from Samtskhe to Adjara and Guria over the passes.

Military

A Meskhian banner.

Threats

• Feud with the old Jaqeli kin

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 1200No dated event is recorded for this lordship in 1200.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: One modern summary; the date of the transfer is not given.

On the map: Rough block for valleys whose exact bounds are not known.

Primary sources for Georgia

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• The Chronicle of Michael the Syrian (Michael the Great), Michael the Syrian, patriarch of Antioch 1166 to 1199 (about 1180 to 1195). The Jacobite patriarch's world chronicle, in parallel columns of church, secular and miscellaneous events, ending four years before 1200 and shortly before his own death on 7 November 1199, which left the Syrian Orthodox church with a disputed succession in 1200. Read online
• The History of Derbent and Shirvan, as preserved in Munejjim-bashi's Jami al-duwal, Anonymous (an 11th-century author of Derbent, excerpted by Munejjim-bashi, died 1702) (about 1075; preserved in an Ottoman compilation of the 1670s). The only local history of the Shirvanshahs and the emirs of Derbent, surviving as extracts in a 17th-century Ottoman compilation.
• The Complete History, Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir (about 1200 to 1231, at Mosul). The widest Muslim narrative for the years 596 to 597 AH (1199 to 1201): al-Adil's entry into Cairo and his taking of the sultanate from his nephew al-Mansur Muhammad early in 1200, the quarrels of the Ayyubid princes at Damascus, Aleppo and Hama, the Nile failure and the great famine of Egypt, Mosul under Nur al-Din Arslan Shah and the Jazira under Gokbori and the Artuqids, Baghdad under the caliph al-Nasir, the Khwarazmshah Tekish's death in 1200 and Muhammad's accession, the Ghurid wars in Khurasan, the Eldiguzids and Georgia, the Almohads in the west, and the Seljuks of Rum in passing. Read online
• History of the Armenians, Kirakos Gandzaketsi (1241 to 1265). Written at Getik and Gandzak in the Zakarid lands of Georgian Armenia. Read online
• The Georgian Chronicles: the Histories and Eulogies of the Sovereigns, and the Life of Queen Tamar, Anonymous, attributed to the chancellor Theodore of Chqondidi and to Basili, master of the court (about 1210 to 1225). Two court histories of Queen Tamar written within a generation. Read online
• The Historical Compilation of Vardan Areveltsi, Vardan Areveltsi (about 1267 to 1271). A short universal history that for the 12th and 13th centuries follows Samuel of Ani, Michael the Syrian (which Vardan helped translate into Armenian in 1248) and Kirakos. Read online
• The History of the Seljuks of Rum, Ibn Bibi (Nasir al-Din Husayn ibn Muhammad) (about 1281 to 1285, at Konya). The main Seljuk narrative for Rum begins with Kilij Arslan II's partition of the sultanate among his sons and his death (1192), Kaykhusraw I's first reign at Konya, his deposition in 1196 to 1197 by Rukn al-Din Sulayman II, Kaykhusraw's wanderings to Cilician Armenia, Aleppo and Constantinople, Sulayman's reduction of his brothers' towns (Tokat, Malatya, Amasya, and Ankara by 1204) and his Erzurum and Georgian campaigns. Read online