Ashot IV Msaker, Prince of Armenia

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• Name	Ashot IV Msaker   [1]
  Suffix	Prince of Armenia
  Gender	Male
  Death	826  [2]
  Person ID	I383	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	26 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	Smbat VII Bagratuni, Prince of Armenia   d. 772
  Mother	(Unknown sister or daughter of Samuel Mamikonian)
  Family ID	F269	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Bagrat Bagratuni   d. 852
  Family ID	F178	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Prince of Armenia. Also called Ashot Masker, meaning "meat-eater" or "the carnivorous", reputedly for his refusal to refrain from eating meat during Lent. Also called Ashot the Brave. "[A]n Armenian prince from the Bagratid family. A fugitive from the failed uprising in 775 against Arab rule in Armenia, where his father was killed, over the next decades he gradually expanded his domains and established a predominant role for himself in the country's affairs, becoming recognized by the Abbasid Caliphate as presiding prince of Armenia from 806 until his death in 826." [Wikipedia]

  
  

• Sources

  [S379] "[Eirene?], First Wife of Emperor Isaakios II Angelos, Is a Probable Tornikina and Gateway to Antiquity," by Don C. Stone and Charles R. Owens. Foundations, journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 3, number 5, 2011. [S2158] Pedigree and Progress: Essays in the Genealogical Interpretation of History by Anthony Wagner. London: Phillimore & Co., 1975.