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

Finally, accounts of a number of neo-martyrdoms
which had occurred during the 13-14th centuries are
relevant for their descriptions of the religio-juridical
position of the Christian Armenian lords in a time of
an ascendant Islam, again, especially for western and
southern Armenia about which the more lengthy literary
histories are often silent. In 1903 H. Manandyan and
Hr. ASarean published the critical edition of a collection
of records of martyrdoms occurring between 1155 and 1643.
These episodes are drawn primarily from various menologies
and collections of sermons and from the works of medieval
historians. Accounts of the following 13-14th century
nee-martyrs were used in this study: T'eodoros of Caesarea
(d. 1204), Grigor Xaibakean of Xa$en (d. 1223), Hasan
Jalal of Xajen (d. 1261), Grigor of Balu (d. 1290/91),
bishop Grigor of Karin/Erzerum (d. 1321/22), Amenawag of
Derjan (d. 1335/36), bishop Vanak of Bjni (d. 1387/88),
archbishop Step'annoa of Sebaatia (d. 1387/88), Awag of
Salmast (d. 1390/91), Eliaabef of Xarabast (d. 1391/92)
kat'oiikoB Zak'aria of Alt'amar (d. 1393/94) and T'amar of
Mokk* (d. 1398/99)1.
1 H. Manandian and Hr. A5areant Havoc' nor vkanera. 1155-1843
[Armenian Reo-martyrs]. (Valarsapat, 1903).
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