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Tamar was the eldest daughter of George III of Georgia (aka Giorgi III, r. 1156-1184 CE). Without any sons of his own, and having blinded and castrated his only nephew after a rebel fomented around him, George had no male heirs. But George made his decision of successor clear, unlike his father Demetrius I of Georgia (aka Demetre I, r. 1125-1156 CE...
In 1188 CE, not only was Yuri sent away but Catholicos Mikel also died. Freed from their control, Tamar chose her own men to fill the top positions in Georgia, including interior minister and commander-in-chief. The Mkhargrdzeli brothers, Zakare and Ivane, became especially important as advisors and military commanders. She next married someone of ...
Georgia was once again secure, and in 1192 CE, Tamar gave birth to the future George IV. To celebrate, David Soslan launched two military campaigns, capturing the city of Bardavi, the old capital of Albania in the eastern Caucasus, and Erzurum. In response, the Caliph in Baghdad declared a jihad of all Muslims against Georgia. Nusrat al-Din Abu Bak...
While Georgia was victorious in the east, Constantinople had been surrounded by and sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 CE. While the Byzantine Empire was occupied with the Crusaders and then disintegrated into a successor land grab when Constantinople was sacked, Tamar was engaged in a new adventure in Byzantineterritory on the Black Sea. Tamar's...
Under Tamar, Georgia reached its greatest territorial and political height. Its armies campaigned from Trebizond to Iran, and Georgia was undisputedly a major power in the region. Tamar is almost certainly the most lauded of Georgia's medieval rulers and was written about and eulogized by Georgians medieval and modern. Contemporary poet Shota Rusta...
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Nov 15, 2023 · Forty-nine-year-old Queen Anne survived until 1st August 1714. That autumn, the British warily accepted Sophia Dorothea's oldest son, Georg Ludwig, as George I, their first House of Hanover monarch. He arrived in Britain with his mistress, his half-sister (who most onlookers thought was another mistress), his son Georg August, the future George ...
May 1, 2014 · Tragically, Sophia died in June 1714 at the age of 83, just two months before her cousin Queen Anne.
Nov 15, 2022 · Anne was crowned Queen at Westminster Abbey. She was suffering from gout so was carried to the Abbey in a sedan chair.
Sep 16, 2022 · Anne was crowned in Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1702; she was 37 years old. She had married Prince George of Denmark (1653-1708), the son of Frederick III of Denmark (r. 1648-70) on 28 July 1683. King William made George the Duke of Cumberland, but he was largely ignored until Anne became queen, and even then his disinterest in political life ...
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