Surf Wiki
Save to docs
general/8th-century-kings-of-abkhazia

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Leon II of Abkhazia

King of Abkhazia (r. 767–828)

King of Abkhazia (r. 767–828)

FieldValue
nameLeon II
imageLeon II of Abkhazia.jpg
successionKing of Abkhazia
reign778–828
successorTheodosius II
succession1Archon of Abasgia
reign1767–778
predecessor1Leon I
houseAnchabadze

Leon II of the Anchabadze dynasty, was the hereditary prince (Eristavi) from 767 to 778 and king (mepe) of the Kingdom of Abkhazia from 778 to 828. He was the nephew and successor of Leon I and from maternal side grandson of the reigning Khagan of the Khazars (possibly Bihar or Baghatur).

Life

Leon II exploited an existing dynastic union to acquire Lazica in the 770s, as John was dead and Juansher grew old. Towards circa 778, Leon II won his full independence with the help of the Khazars to assumed the title of "King of the Abkhazians*"* and transferred his capital from Anacopia to the western Georgian city of Kutaisi. According to Georgian annals, Leon subdivided his kingdom into eight duchies: Abkhazia proper, Tskhumi, Bedia, Guria, Racha and Takveri, Svaneti, Argveti, and Kutatisi. Leon II during his life strengthened the contacts with the political circles of Tao-Klarjeti by means of the dynasty marriages.

During his reign Abkhazian kingdom was the stage of the state building and was less active in the matter of spreading the borders of the kingdom to the East. After obtaining of the state independence, the matter of the church independence became the main problem. Leon II was not able to conduct the independent church policy till it was dependent on Constantinople. Besides, the empire tried, with the help of the church to influence the inner and foreign policy of the kingdom. Church split of Abkhazia from Constantinople in Vakhushti Bagrationi's opinion had place during Leon II reign.

Family

Leon married an unknown princess:

Issue

  • Theodosius II, king of the Abkhazia from 828 until 855.
  • Demetrius II, king of the Abkhazia from 855 until 864.
  • George I, king of the Abkhazia from 864 until 871.

Genealogy

References

Sources

  • Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 3rd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2018.
  • Peter B. Golden. Khazar Studies: An Historio-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980.

References

  1. [[Vakhushti Bagrationi]], ''The History of Egrisi, Abkhazeti or Imereti'', part 1.
Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

8th-century-kings-of-abkhazia khazar-people 9th-century-kings-of-abkhazia
Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Leon II of Abkhazia — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report