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Luarsab I (Georgian: ლუარსაბ I) (born between 1502-1509 – died 1556 or 1558), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king of the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli from 1527 to 1556 or from 1534 to 1558. Persistent in his resistance against Safavid Persian aggression, he was killed in the Battle of Garisi.[1]

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(Migration and the Transplantation of the Tribal Elements by Maeda Hirotake)
From chronicle sources, it is clear that immigrants into the Caucasus
largely consisted of qezelbāsh tribes. Turkish tribal forces in Anatolia
known as qezelbāsh made a great contribution to the establishment of the
Safavid dynasty. The earlier Safavid Shāhs settled qezelbāsh tribes along
two rivers, the Aras and Kor. They rewarded their loyalists with favorable
lands for their services.12
Of course it was not only for their livestock. Their move was
politically backed up by Safavid authority. There were several indigenous
dynasties who strongly opposed the Safavid rule. For example Luarsab I,
king of Kartli of Georgia, resisted over some thirty years but finally was
killed in 963–964/1556–1557 by Shāhverdī Khān Ziyādoghlū Qājār who
was supposedly the first governor-in-general (beglarbegī) of Qarābāgh.
http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/publish/no10_ses/09_maeda.pdf

Life

The eldest son of David X, he succeeded on the abdication of his uncle, George IX, in 1527 (more accepted date) or 1534.

When young, he distinguished himself as a commander in his father’s army, particularly at the Battle of Teleti (1522), won by a Persian invasion army in spite of heavy losses. He established close contacts with Bagrat III of Imereti, king of Imereti (western Georgia) and married in 1526 his daughter. A year later, he was crowned king of Kartli and launched a series of measures to strengthen the kingdom’s defence capacity amid the ongoing war between Safavid Persia and Ottoman Turkey (1514-1555). In alliance with Bagrat of Imereti, Luarsab fought both empires trying to preserve his independence and reestablish close cooperation between various Georgian polities. In 1435, Bagrat conquered a pro-Ottoman southern Georgian principality of Samtskhe, granting its province Javakheti to Kartli. The Kartlian-Imeretian alliance was soon joined by another Georgian monarch, Levan I of Kakheti. However, the 1541 invasion by the Persian shah Tahmasp I forced Levan out of a Georgian coalition, it left most of Kartli in ruins, and the capital Tbilisi garrisoned by a Persian force. The year 1545 brought another misfortune: a combined army of the Imeretian and Kartlian kings were crushed by the Ottomans at the Battle of Sokhoista and expelled from Samtskhe. From 1547 to 1554, Kartli suffered three more invasions by Tahmasp of Persia, who overran the country, but failed to force the king into submission. The Treaty of Amasya, 1555, between the Safavids and Ottomans left Georgia divided between these empires, with the east under Persian domination and the west under Turkish control. Luarsab, however, did not recognise the treaty, and continued desperate guerilla war against the Persian occupation forces virtually holding them under siege. In order to subdue the stubborn Georgian monarch, Shah Tahmasp sent Shahverdi Sultan, beglarbeg of Ganja and Karabakh, with a large army. Luarsab and his son, Simon, met the invaders at the Battle of Garisi. A heavy fight resulted in a Georgian victory, but Luarsab was mortally wounded.

Luarsab was buried at the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral at Mtskheta.

Family and children

Luarsab I married on March 25, 1526 Tamar of Imereti, daughter of king Bagrat III of Imereti. They had eight children:

1. A son, who died in 1536 and was buried at Mtskheta
2. Simon I, King of Kartli
3. David XI, King of Kartli
4. Vakhtang (c. 1546–1605), sometime governor of Akhaldaba and Dirbi. He was married to the certain Tinatin and had had a son, Teimuraz-Mirza, and a daughter, Tamar. Teimuraz-Mirza's son, Luarsab, (died in 1650), was adopted by King Rostom of Kartli as his heir in 1639. Tamar was married to Prince Paremuz Amilakhvari.
5. Alexander (fl. 1546–1573)
6. Levan
7. A daughter, married Kekaoz Chkheidze (fl. 1570–1590). Their son Gorgasal Chkheidze (fl. 1590–1629) was married to a daughter of Giorgi Saakadze.
8. A daughter, married Giorgi, son of Levan of Kakheti.

References

1. Maeda, Hirotake (2006). "The forced migrations and reorganisation of the regional order in the Caucasus by Safavid Iran: Preconditions and developments described by Fazli Khuzani". In Ieda, Osamu; Uyama, Tomohiko. Reconstruction and interaction of Slavic Eurasia and its neighbouring worlds (PDF). Slavic Eurasian Studies, No.10. Sapporo: Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University. p. 241. ISBN 4938637391.

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jun 14 2017, 22:49:54 UTC
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jun 14 2017, 22:52:34 UTC

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Великий 1527-56, царь Картли. "Воевал все дни свои с мусульманами, чтобы не оставили грузины Христа". Причислен к лику святых

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luarsab_I_of_Kartli

Luarsab I (Georgian: ლუარსაბ I) (born between 1502-1509 – died 1556 or 1558), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king of the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli from 1527 to 1556 or from 1534 to 1558. Persistent in his resistance against Safavid Persian aggression, namely Shahverdi Khan Ziyadoglu Qajar who was supposedly the firdst beglarbeg of Qarabagh. Luarsab I king of Kartli of Georgia he was killed in the Battle of Garisi by Shahverdi Khan in 1556=1557.

The eldest son of David X, he succeeded on the abdication of his uncle, George IX, in 1527 (more accepted date) or 1534.

When young, he distinguished himself as a commander in his father’s army, particularly at the Battle of Teleti (1522), won by a Persian invasion army in spite of heavy losses. He established close contacts with Bagrat III of Imereti, king of Imereti (western Georgia) and married in 1526 his daughter. A year later, he was crowned king of Kartli and launched a series of measures to strengthen the kingdom’s defence capacity amid the ongoing war between Safavid Persia and Ottoman Turkey (1514-1555). In alliance with Bagrat of Imereti, Luarsab fought both empires trying to preserve his independence and reestablish close cooperation between various Georgian polities. In 1435, Bagrat conquered a pro-Ottoman southern Georgian principality of Samtskhe, granting its province Javakheti to Kartli. The Kartlian-Imeretian alliance was soon joined by another Georgian monarch, Levan I of Kakheti. However, the 1541 invasion by the Persian shah Tahmasp I forced Levan out of a Georgian coalition, it left most of Kartli in ruins, and the capital Tbilisi garrisoned by a Persian force. The year 1545 brought another misfortune: a combined army of the Imeretian and Kartlian kings were crushed by the Ottomans at the Battle of Sokhoista and expelled from Samtskhe. From 1547 to 1554, Kartli suffered three more invasions by Tahmasp of Persia, who overran the country, but failed to force the king into submission. The Treaty of Amasya, 1555, between the Safavids and Ottomans left Georgia divided between these empires, with the east under Persian domination and the west under Turkish control. Luarsab, however, did not recognise the treaty, and continued desperate guerilla war against the Persian occupation forces virtually holding them under siege. In order to subdue the stubborn Georgian monarch, Shah Tahmasp sent Shahverdi Sultan, beglarbeg of Ganja and Karabakh, with a large army. Luarsab and his son, Simon, met the invaders at the Battle of Garisi. A heavy fight resulted in a Georgian victory, but Luarsab was mortally wounded.

Luarsab was buried at the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral at Mtskheta.

The battle of Garisi was fought between the Georgian and Safavid Iranian armies at the village of Garisi (present-day Tetritsq'aro) in 1556 or 1558, and resulted in a pyrrhic victory of the Georgians.

This conflict was an immediate consequence of the Treaty of Amasya signed between the Ottoman and Safavid empires in 1555. This peace deal left a fragmentized Kingdom of Georgia divided into spheres of influence. The kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti, and the eastern part of the principality of Samtskhe were allotted to the Safavids which had already garrisoned the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.

Luarsab I, the indomitable king of Kartli, refused to recognize the terms of the Amasya treaty and continued to worry Tbilisi. This provoked another Iranian expedition, the fourth in Luarsab’s reign. The Safavid forces, the Qizilbash, placed by Shah Tahmasp I under the command of Shāhverdī Khān Ziyādoghlū Qājār, beylerbey of Karabakh,[1] crossed into Kartli in 1556 or 1558. Lursab and his son Svimon met the invaders at Garisi. In a pitched battle, the Georgians managed to beat off the Qizilbash, but Luarsab was killed in action.

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Luarsab was a son of Prince Teimuraz-Mirza of Kartli (fl. 1600) and his wife, an anonymous daughter of Prince David Bagration-Davitishvili. He had a brother, Vakhtang (Rostom-Mirza; died 1655). He was a scion of all three royal branches of the Bagrationi dynasty; through his father, Luarsab was a great-grandson of King Luarsab I of Kartli and, through his mother, he descended from the Kakhetian and Imeretian royal families. The 18th-century Georgian chronicler Prince Vakhushti erroneously identifies Luarsab as "son of Vakhtang, son of King Simon", who was Luarsab I's son.[1] This genealogy has been accepted by some modern scholars such as Cyril Toumanoff.

Luarsab was Muslim, living in Isfahan, the capital of the Iranian Safavids. In 1639, he was adopted and designated as heir apparent to the throne of Kartli by his father’s first cousin, the seasoned king Rostom, who had no children of his own. With the shah's approval, Luarsab was brought in Kartli, but the local nobility resented yet another Persian-educated Bagratid.[3] Luarsab was mortally wounded by a bullet while on a hunt in the Karaia grove and died in the presence of the mourning Rostom. The prince's remains were interred at Ardabil.[1]

Prince Luarsab was married to Tamar, daughter of Prince Adam-Sultan Andronikashvili, member of the shah's elite ghulam guard, by an anonymous princess, half-sister of King Rostom. Although Prince Vakhushti claims that with Luarsab's death "the line of the great king Luarsab became extinct", the prince had a son, Giorgi (fl. 1652) and a grandson, Khosro.

Rostom suspected his heir's death was not an accident and requested an inquiry from Isfahan, but nothing came of this as the shah's government was preoccupied with the war in Kandahar. In the meantime, Prince Shiosh Baratashvili denounced Prince Baindur Tumanishvili as a possible murderer and had him publicly tried by single combat in Tbilisi. Tumanishvili was wounded, but won the duel and was thus acquitted. Baratashvili, also wounded and defeated, was cast in prison by Rostom, but was later pardoned and, the 18th-century Georgian Paris Chronicle says, Prince Luarsab "remained unavenged".

After the loss of his heir, Rostom intended to adopt the late Prince Luarsab's brother Vakhtang and, to the chagrin of many Georgians, give him Luarsab's widow in marriage. Vakhtang, serving to the shah as a prefect of Qazvin and having the example of his brother before him, was reluctant. Arriving in Isfahan in 1655, Rostom's envoy, Bakhuta, Prince of Mukhrani, found Prince Vakhtang already dead of illness. Within three years, the Prince of Mukhrani would become Rostom's new choice as heir apparent and would succeed him on the throne of Kartli as Vakhtang V.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Luarsab_of_Kartli

Царь Картли с 1527 года по 1556 год. Основными событиями его правления стали нашествия Шаха Тамаза.
В 1536 году, когда царь находился в Мцхете, пришла иранская армия шаха Тамаза, сожгла Тбилиси и в крепости оставили персидский гарнизон. Луарсаб смог отбить Тбилиси только в 1539 году.
В 1548 году шах Тамаз снова захватывает Тбилиси. С этого момента Луарсаб I ведет, фактически, партизанскую войну против персов.
В 1556 году в Картли вторгся карабахский беглербег. Луарсаб I был уже стар и грузинской армией командовал его сын Симон. Сражение произошло у села Гариси. Карабахцы были разбиты, но один из карабахских отрядов оказался на возвышенности, откуда царь наблюдал за ходом битвы.
Тогда встретился с царем Шаверди-хан и у царя были сломаны сабля и копье в битве, толкнул [%D1%86%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C] конём Шаверди-хана и переехал через него. И погнавшись за другим, провалился у него конь в трещину и упал конь вместе с царем на землю. Подскочил персиянин именем Зирак и вонзил меч в царя сильно. А воины царя истребили кизылбашей полностью и не ведая об этом, возвратился царевич Симон с победой и добычей, и увидев царя в таком состоянии, опечалился сильно.
В 1556 году царь Луарсаб I умер от полученных в бою смертельных ран. Был причислен к лику святых «Ибо царь сей воевал все дни свои с мусульманами, чтобы не оставили грузины Христа»