Shahnshah II Zakarian explained

Shahnshah II Zakarian
Շահնշահ Բ Զաքարյան
Parents:Ivane II Zakarian
Office1:Amirspasalar
Successor1:Qvarqvare I Jaqeli
Office2:Atabeg
Successor2:Sargis II Jaqeli
Predecessor2:Khutlubuga
Termend2:1306
Termstart2:1294
Termend1:1310
Termstart1:1290
Spouse:Kuandze

Shahnshah II Zakarian was a member of the Armenian Zakarid dynasty, and a Court official of the Kingdom of Georgia, holding the office of amirspasalar (Commander-in-Chief) and atabeg (Governor General) of Georgia.

Biography

He was the son of Ivane II Zakarian and grandson of Shahnshah Zakarian, he was one of the active participants in the political events of that time. He was an apostle to Beka I Jaqeli, so that he could send the Prince George (the future George V) to be brought up with him. The chronicler mentions Shahnshah a member of the Mongol punitive expedition against King David VIII. "Atabeg-Amirspasalar Shahansha" is mentioned in one of the Armenian inscriptions of 1310 AD, and only as Atabeg in the Georgian-language epitaph on the tombstone of his brother, Atabeg Vahram.

His wife Kuandze

The wife of Shahnshah II Zakarian was named Kuandze and was the daughter of the Armenian Princes Khoshak and Shams al-Din Juvayni, an Il-Khanid Sahib Divan, "the highest ranking officials in the hierarchical system of the II-khanid state", responsible for finance.[1] [2] Khuandze is known from an inscription at Ani, on the mosque Abul Mā’maran.[1]

Kuandze is also known from an inscription at the Church of the Holy Apostles at Ani:

Notes and References

  1. Eastmond . Antony . Inscriptions and Authority in Ani . Der Doppeladler. Byznanz und die Seldschuken in Anatolien vom späten 11. Bis zum 13. Jahrhundert, eds. Neslihan Austay-Effenberger, Falko Daim . 1 January 2014 . 81 . We are faced with the opposite situation from the Abul Mā’maran inscription, in that this inscription is designed to appeal to the non-Armenian population, but is placed in a relatively private location inside the gavit, and also uses Armenian as its language. Although it does not have an official Ilkhanid seal, it was still issued by a powerful and well-connected figure, Khuandze, wife of the atabeg Shahanshah II, and daughter of the Ilkhanid Sahib Divan..
  2. Margarian . Hayrapet . Ṣāḥib-dīvān Šams ad-dīn Muḥammad Juvainī and Armenia . Iran & the Caucasus . 2006 . 10 . 2 . 167–180 . 10.1163/157338406780346032 . 4030920 . 1609-8498.