Varaztirots II Bagratuni

marzpan  (margrave)

aspet

In Sebeos (p. 48), it is said that the Sassanian king Khosrow II had raised Varaztirots in his family as if he were one of his own sons (a common practice among the nobility of that time.)

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Settipani estimates about 590.

Date of Death: 645/6.

Place of Death: Armenia.

The date is given by Settipani.

Place of Burial: Dariwnk, in Kogovit.

The place is given by Sebeos (p. 109). 

Relationships

Father: Smbat IV Bagratuni.

This relationship is given by Garsoian (2005) and by the PmbZ. It is recorded in Sebeos (p. 47, p. 86) and given by Yovhannēs Drasxanakertc‘i (given in Settipani p. 567).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Smbat V Bagratuni (died after 646)

Evidence

Howard-Johnston on “Sebeos”, whose history was composed in the 650s, as a source:  

He had strong views but succeeded in confining them to a few passages of direct editorial comment. There are, of course, blemishes - an occasional disregard of chronology (e.g., a set of notices [pp. 96-97, 99-104] covering the career of Smbat Bagratuni to his death in 617/18, placed under 600/1), a certain disorder towards the end (for which he apologizes [p. 176]), and, above all, a conflation of the two Persian attacks on the Romans’ metropolitan area in 615 and 626 (pp. 122-23). But, on the whole, the history retailed is lucid and where it can be tested, it can be shown to be reliable (Howard-Johnston, Armenian History, pp. lxi-lxxvii).

Yovhannēs Drasxanakertc‘i (John VI Katholikos of Armenia) was prelate of Armenia 897- about 925.

References

The Armenian History attributed to Sebeos. (R.W. Thomson, tr) (Liverpool U.P., 1999).

Garsoian, N. “Smbat Bagratuni” in Encyclopaedia Iranica (2005).

Lilie, Ralph-Johannes, Claudia Ludwig, Beate Zielke, and Thomas Pratsch. “Varaztiroc’” in Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online (2013).

Settipani, Christian. “The Seventh-Century Bagratids between Armenia and Byzantium” in 2013, Constructing the Seventh Century, Travaux et Mémoires XVII, (C. Zuckerman ed.), (Paris, 2013), p. 559-578.

Toumanoff, Cyril. Studies in Christian Caucasian History (Georgetown U.P., 1963).