The Turco-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13 ...

Shams ad-Din Juvaini ; king David LaSaean married lawand
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Esugan, a relative of Chormaghun ; king Denetre'a sister
Tamar was married to emir Arghun's eon'; Demitre's
daughter Ruaudan, to the son of Buqa ; king Tazt'ang
married Arghun-Khan's sister, Oljjat , who subsequently
was wed to Vart'ang's . successor king David6. Cilician
sources mention a number of Cilician Armenian notables
also who had Mongol spouses, and most likely the Armeno— 1
Saljuq nobility similarly intermarried with Mongol no.yina'
SO p. 165.
SO p. 167; KG p. 251; Mur. p. 123.
KG p. 274; Mur. p. 144.
KC p. 281; Mur. p. 150. Also KC p. 285; Mur. p. 153.
KC p. 293; Mur. p. 160.
KG p. 297; Mur. p. 164.
Toward the end of the 13th century, despite protestations
from the Church, the Armeno-Georgian lords began imitating
the Mongol and Islamic practise of polygamy. Consequently
a number of potentially powerful alliances were formed.
TarsayiS Orbelean, for example, during the lifetime of his
first wife, married Mina khatun Xalbakean of Xa$en (d. 1311)
sister of Hasan Jalal( X. 10, 117, 175,177,2677. One of
TarsayiS'a daughters was married into another branch of
the Xalbakeans, while a second daughter became the wife of
king Demitre's brother Manuel (SO p. 171). Sadun Arcruni
took four wives, one of whom was king Demitre's only sister,
T'amar(KC p. 278; Mur. p. 147). King Demitre himself had
three wives, one of whom was the daughter of the powerful
Beka Jaqeli of Samc'xe (KC pp. 282-83; Kurfc 150-51). In
the final decades of the 13th century, Orbeleans once
again married into the Xalbakean family, and into the family
of their rivals, the Arcruni/Mahkanaberdelis (SO p. 179).
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