Mushegh II Mamikonian
Մուշեղ Բ Մամիկոնյան
Marzban of Persian Armenia
In office
591–591
MonarchKhosrau II
Preceded byHrartin
Succeeded byVindatakan
Personal details
BornUnknown
Died593

Mushegh II Mamikonian (Armenian: Մուշեղ Բ Մամիկոնյան) was an Armenian nobleman from the Mamikonian family. During his later life he was nominated as Marzban of Persian Armenia, ruling briefly in 591.[1]

Biography

In 590, the Sasanian spahbed Bahram Chobin rebelled against the Sasanian king Hormizd IV. The latter was, however, deposed and killed by the Sasanian nobles before Bahram could confront him. One of the leaders behind the plot against Hormizd was Vistahm and Vinduyih, who made the king's son, Khosrau II, the new king of the Sasanian Empire.

However, shortly after the coronation of the new king, Bahram Chobin marched to Ctesiphon and proclaimed himself king under the name of Bahram VI. Khosrau along with Vistahm, and Vinduyih fled to Byzantine territory, where promised emperor Maurice I to cede territory in exchange for military aid. One later year, Khosrau, along with Mushegh II and other nobles, marched towards Ctesiphon, and defeated Bahram, who then fled to Azerbaijan, and wrote a letter to Mushegh, urging him to betray Khosrau. Mushegh, however, rejected the offer.[2]

At the head of an army, Mushegh joined the Byzantine army and defeated the army of Bahram Chobin in Battle of Blarathon near Ganzak. Bahram then fled to Central Asia and was killed shortly after. Mushegh later resigned from the Marzban office, and retired, dying in 593.[3]

References

  1. ^ Toumanoff, Cyrille (1990). "Vice-rois iraniens (Marzpans) d'Arménie". Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au xixe siècle : Tables généalogiques et chronologiques (in French). Rome. p. 506.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Pourshariati, Parvaneh (2008). Decline and fall of the Sasanian empire: the Sasanian-Parthian confederacy and the Arab conquest of Iran. I.B. Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation. p. 129. ISBN 9781845116453.
  3. ^ Settipani, Christian (2006). Continuité des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obscurs. Les princes caucasiens et l'Empire du vie au ixe siècle (in French). Paris: de Boccard. p. 147. ISBN 978-2-7018-0226-8.
Preceded byHrartin Marzban of Persian Armenia 591 Succeeded byVindatakan
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