Dinar of Hereti explained

Dinar (Georgian: დინარ დედოფალი|tr) was a Georgian princess of the Bagrationi dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and Queen regnant of Hereti in the 11th-century. She is venerated as a saint. The Georgian Orthodox Church commemorates her on June 30.

Life

Dinar was a daughter of hereditary ruler of Tao-Klarjeti, the eristavt-eristavi, "duke of dukes" Adarnase III of Tao by his unknown wife.

According to The Georgian Chronicles, Queen Dinar, during the reign of her son Ishkhanik, converted Hereti to the Georgian Orthodox Church.^[1]

King Ishkhanik and Queen Dinar participated in the ceremony organized on the occasion of the election of the new Catholicos of Albania in 962.^[2]

After 1000 AD Queen Dinar of Hereti had no option but to join a united Georgia under King Bagrat.^[3] When the campaign of Bagrat III to the Kingdom of Hereti, the main representative of the Hereti ruling circles was Queen Dinar. Bagrat III captured her and she must have been over 90 years old.^[4]

In Russia

Queen Dinar’s story is recounted in the Russian Chronicles more closely and The Tale of Tsaritsa Dinara may be about her.

Today, on the north wall of the Throne Hall in the Moscow Kremlin, there's a fresco of Queen Dinar who's mounted on a white horse, victorious over the enemy.

See also

• The Tale of Tsaritsa Dinara

Sources

• "ქართველ წმიდანთა ცხოვრებანი", თბილისი, 2004 წ.
• Marie-Félicité Brosset, Additions et éclaircissements à l'Histoire de la Géorgie, Académie impériale des sciences, Saint-Pétersbourg, 1851, Addition IX, p. 155.
• Cyrille Toumanoff, Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle : Tables généalogiques et chronologiques, Rome, 1990, p. 80 et 130.
• Сперанский М. Н., «Повесть о Динаре в Русской Письменности», Известия Отделения Русского Языка и Словесности Академии Наук СССР», 1926, том XXXI, 53-54.
• Ист.: Повесть о царице Динаре // Русские повести XV-XVI вв. / Сост.: М. О. Скрипиль. М.; Л., 1958. С. 88-91, 416-417
• Вахушти Багратиони. История царства Грузинского / Пер., предисл., слов.
• Н. Т. Накашидзе. Тбилиси, 1976; Матиане Картлиса / Пер., введ., примеч.: М. Д. Лордкипанидзе. Тбилиси, 1976.
• Лебедев-Полянский. М.; Л., 1945. Т. 2. Ч. 1. С. 346-349; Зимин А. А. И. С. Пересветов и его современники: Очерки по истории рус. обществ.-полит. мысли сер. XVI в. М., 1958. С. 81-91, 106-108; История рус. лит-ры / Ред.
• Д. С. Лихачев, Г. П. Макогоненко и др. Л., 1980. Т. 1. С. 263-264; ОИГ. 1988. Т. 2. С. 274-278; Жития груз. святых / Сост З. Мачитадзе и др. Тбилиси, 2002. С. 108

Notes and References

1. Book: Əliyev Şirinbəy Hacıəli oğlu . Şimal-Qərbi Azərbaycan: ingiloylar: I kitab: Ən qədim zamanlardan XIII əsrin ortalarınadək. 2007. Təhsil . 92 . az.
2. Г. М. Григорян. . Новонайденные надписи Ваанаванка . ru . Ист.-филол. журн. . 1972 . 223 .
3. Book: Rayfield, Donald . Donald Rayfield

   . Donald Rayfield. Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia . 2013-02-15 . Reaktion Books . 978-1-78023-070-2 . 61 . en.

4. Book: Əliyev Şirinbəy Hacıəli oğlu . Şimal-Qərbi Azərbaycan: ingiloylar: I kitab: Ən qədim zamanlardan XIII əsrin ortalarınadək. 2007. Təhsil . 97 . az.