Bagratuni Family

Bagratuni/Bagrationi family

Ashot "the Blind", constable of Armenia, +761, had issue:

• A1. Smbat VII Bagratuni, constable of Armenia, *ca 735, +5.8.775; m.N, dau.of prince Samuel II Mamikonid (see NOTE)
  • B1. Ashot Msaker ("the Carnivore"), constable of Armenia (806-826)
    • C1. Smbat VIII "the Confessor", constable of Armenia (826-855), +862/67
      • D1. Ashot V "the Great", King of Armenia (884-890); his issue were Bagratids of Armenia
      • D2. a daughter; m.Bagrat I of Iberia
      • D3. a daughter; m.Guaram V of Djavaketi (+ca 882)
        • E1. a daughter; 1m: Adarnase I of Abkhazia (+886); 2m: Bagrat I of Abkhazia (+899)
    • C2. Bagrat Bagratuni, Duke of Taron (826-51), +851; his issue were Bagratids of Taron
      • D1. Ashot I, Duke of Taron (858-78), +878
        • E1. Gurgen
      • D2. David I, Duke of Taron (878-95), +895
        • E1. Ashot II, Duke of Taron (895-898)
      • D3. Tornik, captive of Baghdad caliph, fl 858
        • E1. Grigor I, archon, strategos, Duke of Taron (898-923), +ca 923
          • F1. Bagrat II, Duke of Taron (923-40), +940
          • F2. Ashot III, Duke of Taron (940-966/67), +966/67
            • G1. Grigor Taronites, Duke of Thessalonika, +k.a.995; m.Helene, dau.of Michael Lekapenos
              • H1. Ashot Taronites, magistros, fl 1005; m.998 Miroslava of Bulgaria, sister of tsar Samuel I
                • I1. Gregorios Taronites, patrician, +executed 1040
                  • J1. Michael Taronites, protosebastos, fl 1093; m.ca 1067 Maria Komnene, sister of Emperor Alexios I of Byzantium
                    • K1. Ioannes Taronites, sebastos, Duke of Skopje 1092, fl 1116/47
                      • L1. Michael Taronites
                        • M1. Maria Taronitissa; m.ca 1146 Ioannes Komnenos Dukas, Duke of Cyprus (*1128, +1176)
              • H2. Eirene Taronitissa; m.Romanos Taronites
              • H3. Agatha Taronitissa; m.Constantinos Skleros; Empress Theofano of Germany was possibly their daughter
• A2. Vasak Bagratuni
  • B1. Atrnerseh Bagratuni, King of Iberia, +779
    • C1. Ashot I the Great, King of Iberia (810-26), +826
      • D1. Bagrat I, King of Iberia (830-76), +876; m.N, a dau.of Smbat the Confessor; their issue were Bagratids of Georgia
        • E1. David I, King of Iberia (876-81), +881
          • F1. Atrnerseh II, King of Iberia (888-923), +923
            • G1. David II, King of Iberia (923-37), +937
            • G2. Ashot IV, curopalate (923-54), +954
            • G4. Bagrat II, King of Iberia (937-45), +945
              • H1. Adarnase III, curopalate (958-61), +961
                • I1. Bagrat, +966
                • I2. David III the Great, King of Iberia (994-1001), +1001
              • H2. a daughter; m.Smbat Mampali
            • G5. Sumbat I, curopalate (954-58), +958
              • H1. Bagrat III, King of Iberia (958-94), +994
                • I1. Gurgen II, King of Iberia (1001-08), +1008; m.Guranduht of Abkhazia (she descended from Buzeros Yilbus, Khazar khagan 705, brother-in-law of Emperor Justinian II)
                  • J1. Bagrat IV, King of Abkhazia (978-1014) and Iberia (1008-14), *ca 963, +7.5.1014; for his descendants see HERE
                • I2. Sumbat, +992
              • H2. Ashot, +954
              • H3. Adarnase IV, curopalate (961-83), +983
                • I1. David "the Younger"
                  • J1. Sumbat
            • G6. a daughter; m.Constantine of Abkhazia (+918)
          • F2. a daughter; m.Constantine III of Abkhazia (+915)
        • E2. Ashot, +874
        • E3. Arsen, +885
      • D2. Atrnerseh, Duke of Tayk, +867/869
        • E1. Gurgen I, Duke of Tayk, King of Iberia (881-91), +891
          • F1. Adarnese, Duke of Tayk, +896
            • G1. Gurgen II, Duke of Tayk, +941; m.dau.of Ashot II of Klarjeti
              • H1. a daughter; m.Bagrat II of Abkhazia
        • E2. Ashot Kekela, +867
        • E3. Smbat "the Great", Duke of Artanuji, +889
          • F1. Bagrat, Duke of Klarjeti
            • G1. Adarnase of Klarjeti, +945
            • G2. Gurgen of Klarjeti, +923
            • G3. Ashot II Kiskasi, +939; m.N, dau.of Constantine III of Abkhazia
              • H1. a daughter; m.Gurgen II of Tayk (+941)
          • F2. David Mampali, +943
            • G1. Smbat Mampali; m.N, dau.of Bagrat II of Iberia
      • D3. Pr Guaram Mampali, +882
        • E1. Nerseh, +888
        • E2. Ashot, +869
    • C2. Latavri; m.Djuanshver, the last of native rulers of Kartli

NOTE: Contemporary Armenian sources permit to reconstruct a famous "descent from antiquity" to the Bagratids through the Mamikonid dynasty: Samuel II Mamikonid -> ... -> Hmayeak I Mamikonid -> Sahakanoysh of Armenia (m. Hamazasp I Mamikonid) -> St.Sahak I the Great -> St.Nerses the Great -> Bambish of Armenia (m. Athanagenis) -> Chosroes III of Armenia -> Tiridates IV of Armenia -> Chosroes II of Armenia -> Tiridates II of Armenia -> Chosroes I of Armenia -> Vologases V of Parthia -> ... -> King Arshak (ca 200 BC).

One may find a scholarly discussion of further lines leading from the Arsacides to Seleucids and hence to Achaemenids in the book of Charles Settipani, "Nos ancetres de l'Antiquite" (1991).