Qvarqvare I Jaqeli

Qvarqvare I Jaqeli
Fresco of Qvarqvare I Jaqeli from the Zarzma Monastery.
Atabeg of Samtskhe
Reign1334–1361
PredecessorSargis II
SuccessorBeka II
Born1298 (1298)
Died1361 (aged 62–63)
IssueBeka II Jaqeli
Shalva Jaqeli
DynastyJaqeli
FatherSargis II Jaqeli
ReligionOrthodox Christianity

Qvarqvare I Jaqeli (Georgian: ყვარყვარე I ჯაყელი) (1298 – 1361) was a Georgian prince (mtavari) and ruler of Samtskhe during 1334-1361.[1]

His father was Atabeg Sargis II Jaqeli, the son of Beka I Jaqeli. In 1334, after his father's death, Qvarqvare became George V The Brilliant's vassal and was appointed as Atabeg of Samtskhe by the King of Georgia.

The Jaqelis were vassals of the Ilkhanate, paid regular tributes and participated in their campaigns.[2] Qvarqvare appears in a painting of the House of Jaqeli during the period which shows 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

  1. ^ Georgian Soviet encyclopedia, volume 9, page 102, Tbilisi, 1985
  2. ^ Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, Volume 2, page 345-346, Tbilisi, 1977
  3. ^ Eastmond, Antony (1 January 2021). Monumental Painting and the Role of Images in Armenia under the Mongols. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 46.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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