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

Sfflbat may have had elements of an intra-family feud. It
is interesting too (and similarly unremarked by scholars)
that the Awagid-Orbelean land dispute resulting from the
Mongol conquest has been carried over into the sources
more than once, and in more than one way. For example,
in relating one and the sane story—how Smbat Orbelean
aided a fugitive monarch—Step 'annos Orbelean mentions
the incident as occurring on Smbat * a land, whereas the
History of K'art*11 describes the same territory as
"the land of atabek Awag" .
The importance and severity of the [Kaxiberije]-Awagid—
Orbelean feud led Snbat to the Far East on two occasions,
for protection and confirmation of "his lands". The first
visit(ca. 1252) resulted in Smbat'a vindication2. But the
SO pp. 152-53? KC p. 228; Mur. p. 103.
SO p. 157: "They gave him a golden p'ayiza which is a
tablet bearing the names of God and of the king, their
greatest honor. They also drew up a yarligh (earlex)
which we call sigel—a command—and gave him all that Asian
had taken by the sword and Orotn with its lands...and
the gortrese of Borotn with its provisions, as the blood-price
for the murder of his father Liparit. Furthermore
they removed SmbatC's name] from the dawt'ars of the
Georgians and others. This was the second confirmation of
their patrimony, for the first [time] it was taken by th
sword, when [Smbat] was a servant, by the agency of Asian—
novin: while the second time [it was received] as a gift
from the Khan...".
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