daughter of Smbat of Lori

NOTE: Alp Arslan has a cousin of hers (a daughter of her paternal uncle Kyruiké of Lori) listed as a wife. It's possible that sources confuse the two woman and are unclear which king of Lori gave his daughter to Alp Arslan as a wife. For now, both will be listed as his wife until decisive evidence is found.

• from the Wikipedia page of her mother, Gurandukht of Georgia

"According to the Chronicle of Kartli, part of the Georgian Chronicles, Gurandukht was married to Smbat, brother of Kyurik II, an Armenian king of Lori. Their unnamed daughter was intended by Bagrat to marry the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan as part of a peace deal after the sultan's Georgian campaign in 1064, but he failed to obtain consent from his Armenian in-law Kyurik. In the ensuing conflict, Kyurik was captured by Bagrat's agents and forced into submission of the fortress of Samshvilde to the king of Georgia. Gurandukht's daughter was eventually given in marriage to Alp Arslan,[2] but later became the wife of the influential Seljuk vizier and scholar Nizam al-Mulk, with whom she had the son Diya al-Mulk, the future vizier. The circumstances in which she came into Nizam's harem are obscure.[3]"

Source

• Thomson, Robert W. (1996), Rewriting Caucasian History, pp. 296-299. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-826373-2