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

next year, Zak'are was murdered „
As was pointed out in another connection, the
closeness of certain Caucasian lords to suddenly-disgraced
Mongol noyins was fatal. Thus in 1289, when Arghun-ghan
crushed a plot against himself organized by the emir
Buqa, he also executed king Demitre of Georgia who had
married Buna's daughter and was, rightly or wrongly ,
implicated. Similarly, when Geikhatu succeeded his brother
Arghun as Khan in 1291, he in turn killed off Arehun's
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prominent supporters, among whom were many Armenians .
KG p. 393: "Now it happened that Zak'are fas with Arghun
and his many troops in Georgia. And Zak'are went unbeknownst
to Arghun and the other soldiers to see his wife who was
with her father Sargis, prince of Uxtik', one of the rebels
with the Georgian king David. When Arghun learned about
this, he notified HUlegii who himself ordered that
Zak'are be taken shackled. He heaped other false accusations
upon him, ordered him killed, dismembered, and thrown
to the dogs. And when his father Sahnsah in the Tillage
of Ojun heard the bad news, he became aggrieved and died
of sorrow".
2 See below chapter two p. 122 notes 1 and 2.
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