Tamta Mkhargrdzeli

Tamta Mkhargrdzeli
Թամթա Զաքարյան
Bornc.1195
Court of Tamar of Georgia
Died1254
Ahlat
SpouseAl-Awhad
Al-Ashraf[1]
Jalal al-Din
HouseZakarid dynasty
FatherIvane I Zakarian
MotherKhoshak

Tamta Zakarian or Tamta Mkhargrdzeli (c.1195 – 1254) was an Armenian Chalcedonian Christian noble woman, born at the court of queen Tamar of Georgia. She appears in only a few written sources, including contemporary histories by Kirakos Gandzaketsi and Vardan Areveltsi.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Eastmond 2017 "Tamta, Ayyubid Wife of al-Ashraf Musa"
  2. ^ Eastmond 2017, pp. 4, 22.
  3. ^ Toumanoff, C (1990). Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquitie jusqu'au XIXe siecle. Rome. p. 295.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ La Porta, Sergio (2013). "Reconstructing Armenia: Strategies of Co-Existence amongst Christians and Muslims in the Thirteenth Century". Negotiating Co-Existence: Communities, Cultures and Convivencia in Byzantine Society.