Biography of Orbeliani

Orbeliani originated in Southern Georgia in the VIII century, for a long time created problems of Georgian kings, and eventually expelled. Having escaped to Armenia, they ruled the Syunik region there and built many temples. In the 19th century, this kind gave the Russian Empire several famous generals. The origin of the Orbelian family has a semi -mythical background.

At the level of unproven theory, it is believed that they come from the Armenian family of the Mamikonians. The Mamikonians were kings in the 5th century, fought with the Persians, then simply turned into princes. Musheg IV was a prince of Arab Armenia, joined the uprising of the year and died in the Battle of Bugrenda in after this event of the Mamikonyans in Armenia were almost destroyed, but some of them seemed to be fled to the north and settled in the Argveti region.

Probably, after the Arab invasion of the year, there was a lot of anyone's land. Liparitides proven part of the history of Orbeliani begins in the year when the kings of Abkhazia begin to oppress the Argweet princes. He is allocated to him somewhere between the modern crust and Manglisi, and he builds himself there Kldkari castle. Kldecar Castle probably ruined David’s relationship with his nephew Nasrom, who ultimately killed David.

A small internecine war began. Liparit supported the candidacy of Adarnase, who eventually won and was crowned in the year. Liparit, however, became the founder of the principality and kind, who, by his name, began to be called liparity. They were also called bugwashi. The year of the death of Liparit is unknown. This latter somehow disposed of affairs in the Aten gorge, and organized some repair work in the Church of Atensky Zion.

There are now inscriptions on the wall of the temple with the mention of his name. The same Rati built a temple near the Athen Zion, above the entrance to which there was a very good legible inscription with the mention of his name. It is customary to think that this happened in a year, although Rati died, it seems, it was possible, it is simply the inaccurate of dating.

Liparit IV Liparit became the owner of the Kldecar castle for about a year and at first he did not stand out. Tsar Giorgia died in, and Bagrat became the king, who was then 9 years old. In Liparit, he repulsed the Byzantine invasion of Georgia. For about a year, Liparit and Ivan began the war with the Shedaddid dynasty, defeated them, captured the Tiflis emir Jaffar III and selected the Birtvisi fortress from him.

Things were going so well that in the year Liparit had every chance to win from Muslims Tbilisi. But his successes frightened the king and his environment, so the tsarist government went to negotiations with the emir and entered into a peace treaty. The history of the Tiflis emirate lasted a hundred years. Liparit was furious from such a turn of events, and declared war on Bagrat.

He was supported by a relative of Bagrat, but he died in a year. But even alone, Liparit knew how to defeat Bagrat, and in the same year he defeated him in the battle of Sasireti. Bagrat lost to him almost all his eastern possessions. The Byzantines recognized the status of Liparit and gave him the magistos title. Liparit has become such a large figure that Muslim authors sometimes mention him as a king.

The problems of Liparite began in the year when herring appeared on the horizon. They raided the Byzantine Armenia, and Byzantium sent the Katakalon Kaucamelos against them, to which Liparita was ordered to join. Near the city of Pasinlelter, the allied armies met the Seljuki and defeated them, but in battle Liparit was captured and was taken to Isfahan. Byzantium entered into negotiations with the Seljuks and achieved the liberation of Liparite.

He returned to Georgia, where he discovered that in his absence, King Bagrat took away a lot of things from him. Liparit again went to the war on Bagrat, reached Kutaisi and drove Bagrat into Abkhazia. Liparit declared the king of Giorgia, the son of Bagrat, and crowned him in the Ruise Cathedral. Bagrat fled to Byzantium, from where he returned in the year. Liparit began the war again, but something went wrong.

Something he annoyed his environment. What did not work out by force managed by intrigues: their people grabbed Liparita and betrayed Bagrat, who tonsured him in monks under the name of Anton. Liparit died in Constantinople for about a year, was buried there, but a little later the body was transferred to the Katskha monastery - probably to the very one where the Katskha Cathedral is now.

From Liparit there was a trace in architecture: he built a church near the village of Gokhnari, over the entrance of which he is mentioned with his son. The Gokhnari Church can be assumed that the same type of temples in the village of Gokhnari and in the village of Akhalsopeli - his own creations. Orbeti and Orbeliani for about a year Liparit spoke to an amnesty for his son Ivan, to whom Bagrat returned part of the lands of the liparity.

Under Ivan, the first serious invasion of the Seljuki for Georgia took place in the year, and the Seljuks walked through the lands of the liparitides. Tsar Bagrat IV died in the year, his son Giorgia became the king, and Ivan changed his political orientation, starting the war against Giorgia. He eventually was forced to buy his loyalty, giving him the Samshvill fortress.For about or a year, the Seljuki came again, and the liparitides made friends with them, but Tsar Giorgia defeated the Seljuki in the battle of Partshisi.

Friendship with the Seljuks did not help: they invaded Georgia again, captured Samshvilde with Ivan, and from that moment on Ivan mysteriously disappears from history. After this event, the princes of Liparitides go into the shadow for a while. At this very moment, David Builder becomes the king of Georgia. In his life it is said that in the first years of his reign there was a certain Liparit Bagvashi, who had a son of Rati, who died somewhere after a year.

And no one was left in the dwellings of their heir, for the lawlessness of their fathers before the Lord was removable. And the king took their patrimony. ” Thus, the Life of David claims that the Bagwash clan was completely stopped at this time. Tsar David began to fight with the Seljuks, defeated them at Ertzuhi and, taking advantage of the moment, took them from Samshwill and the surroundings.

It was about a year. In these campaigns, he was helped by a man named Ivan. He was the Amirpasalar Commander-in-Chief of the Georgian Army, and had something to do with Liparitides. For merits and achievements, Tsar David gave him Samschwill and the lands around. There is a theory that Samschwill was then called orbi, and so the surname of Orbeliani arose.

According to another theory, Ivan got or built Orybeti's castle, and the surname came from this castle. When David the builder died, his son Demeter became the king. Orbeliani behaved well and did not create problems for anyone. The rebellion and exile King Demeter died in the year. He has two sons left: the senior David and the younger Giorgia. David became the king, but a month later he was killed.

According to one version, this bad business was committed by Sumat and Ivan Orbeliani. Later, historians from the Orbeliani clan denied this. In any case, Orbeliani are somehow involved in this story. Giorgy III became the king. He seemed to be owed to the family of Orbeliani the throne, so in the year, when the city of Ani was conquered from the Seljuks, then Ivan Orbeliani was appointed its ruler.

But something was wrong in the relationship of the king and Orbeliani. Meanwhile, the murdered David had a son Demeter. He somehow became friends with Ivan and even married his daughter Rusudan. In the year, Orbeliani openly rebelled against the king, deciding to return the throne to Demitria. Orbeliani gathered an army of 30 people, officially crowned Demeter in the castle of Agara and moved to Tbilisi.

The rebels had good chances of success, but the idea broke. Orbeliani retreated to the fortress of Laurie, where they were besieged by the tsarist army. Ivan asked for help from Seljukov sent his brother Liparit there, but they did not have time to come. Lori gave up. Demitri was blinded and soon died. Ivan was executed. The whole orbelian clan was expelled from the Georgian kingdom.

The nephew of Prince Ivan, by the name of Elikum, fled to the Seljuks and moved to Islam. Liparit, Brother Ivan, died in Iran, but his son Ivan was able to return to Georgia when the passions were subsided and returned to some of the possessions of his ancestors - the surroundings of the Orthiti castle. It is from him that the Georgian Orbeliani origin. Orbeliani in Armenia, Elikum mentioned above, fled to the Azerbaijani Ildegizidam, married Armenian, sister of Bishop Sunik, and he died in the year, fighting somewhere behind the Ildegizids, and he had a son Liparit.

In the year, the Georgian army under the command of the princes of Mhargdzeli came to South Armenia and conquered Syunik from the Seljuk. They needed one of the local authorities to control the region, and with the help of Syuniksky’s bishop, they found Liparit, who was issued to the Office of the Vioots-Diz region. Liparit went down in history by building the temple of Surb-Karapet in the Noravank monastery.

The monastery remained such an inscription: in the summer and I built a monastery called Noravank, into the abbess of the Lord of the Sargis-episcopicist of the Syuniksky archpastor-built this church.