| Sargis II Jaqeli | |
|---|---|
 Fresco of Sargis II Jaqeli from the Sapara Monastery. | |
| Atabeg of Samtskhe | |
| Reign | 1306–1334 |
| Predecessor | Beka I |
| Successor | Qvarqvare I |
| Born | 1271 |
| Died | 1334 (aged 62–63) |
| Issue | Qvarqvare I Jaqeli |
| Dynasty | Jaqeli |
| Father | Beka I Jaqeli |
| Religion | Orthodox Christianity |
Sargis II Jaqeli (Georgian: სარგის II ჯაყელი) (1271 – 1334) was a Georgian prince (mtavari) and ruler of Principality of Samtskhe from 1306 to 1334.[1]
Biography
[edit]He was a son of Prince Beka I Jaqeli. During his father's reign Sargis participated in many campaigns. In 1290s Azat Mousa, leader of the Anatolian Turkoman tribes, attacked Samtskhe. Beka Jaqeli appointed Sargis as a commander of army and ordered him to stop Turks near village Vashlovani. Around 1303, Sargis defeated Turkoman tribes and expelled them from Meskhetian lands. In 1306, after his father's death, Sargis ascended the Atabeg's throne. He was made Amirspasalar and Atabeg of the Kingdom of Georgia by his nephew, King George V "the Brilliant".[2] After Sargis II's death, his son Qvarqvare became a new Prince of Meskheti, also the vassal of Georgian kingdom.
Paintings of the House of Jaqeli during the period show them wearing the caftan with tiraz bands on the sleeves inscribed with Kufic letters.[3] Their caftan is decorated with the cloud collars made of pearl embroidery, a design of Mongol Ilkhanate origin.[4] This is also the costume worn at the time by the courtiers at the Mongol court in Tabriz.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Georgian Soviet encyclopedia, volume 9, page 102, Tbilisi, 1985
- ^ Mikaberidze, Alexander (6 February 2015). Historical Dictionary of Georgia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-4422-4146-6.
- ^ Eastmond, Antony (1 January 2021). Monumental Painting and the Role of Images in Armenia under the Mongols. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 46.
}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Вулета), Tatjana Vuleta (Татјана (1 January 2014). "The Cloud Collars from Lesnovo". Patrimonium.MK 12: 181 and Fig.23. the cloud collars decorated with pearl embroidery on the portraits of the Georgian princely family Djakeli from St. Saba in Sapara Monastery, 1285–1306. (fig.23), of Ilkhanate origin.
- ^ Eastmond, Antony (1 January 2021). Monumental Painting and the Role of Images in Armenia under the Mongols. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 51, Note 12. ISBN 978-1588397379. Many of the courtiers in the Great Mongol Shahnamah, made in Tabriz in the 1330s, wear similar dress. Melville 2002, figs 45, 51
