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to counter Orbelean influence by advancing the Abulet'isjes;
and in the 1130'a the Armenian Kiwrikean Bagratids . In
155 king David V tried to check the Orbeleans1 power by
removing them from the amirspasalarate and giving that
office to the Orbeleans1 principal Georgian rivals, the
Abulet'isjes, to whom other important duties had been
2 _
given . Orbeleans, however, poisoned the king and regained
the office, but after amirspasalar Iwane Orbeli's abortive
revolt in 1176-77, the office was given to a Qlpchaq lurk
named Qubasar. In 1184, the Gamrekelis were elevated to
the amirspasalarate. and several years later the Armenized
Kurdish family of Zak'arean/Mxargrceli . Thus prior
to the advent of the Zak'arids, the monarch was able to
manipulate precedence by rewarding of office, although
from the above it should be clear that the struggle against
the dynasts was a continuous ongoing contest. The monarch
could never rest or relax vigilance.
H.S.Margaryan, •Milfeodalakan payjc'ara Georgi III-j zamanak
ev K urd amirapeta [The Inter-Feudal Struggle in the Time
of Teorgi III, and the Amirapet K'urd]", Lraber #11 (I975)p.
50.
Ibid. P. 49.
Allen p. 253.
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