Artavasdes I King of Armenia [60747]

  General Notes:

http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps23/ps23_144.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artavasdes_I_of_Armenia


Artavasdes I of Armenia (also called Artavazd, Armenian : (reigned 160 BC -115 BC ) was the son of Artaxias I and Queen Satenik .

Artavasdes repelled several attempts by Parthians to invade Armenia but was eventually defeated by Mithridates , who annexed parts of Eastern Armenia and took his son, Tigranes the Great as hostage.

According to Professor Cyril Toumanoff , Artavasdes I can be identified with the Armenian king who, according to the medieval Georgian annals, interfered in Iberia at the request of local nobility and installed his son, Artaxias , on the throne of Iberia, thereby inaugurating the Iberian Artaxiad dynasty .[1]

References

1. ^ Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts, p. 282. Peeters Bvba ISBN 90-429-1318-5 .

  Noted events in his life were:

• Reigned, feom 160 BC to 115 BC, Armenia.

Artavasdes married.