Ashot II of Tao

Ashot II ( * after 897, † 954) was 941-954 Kuropalates of Kartli - Iberia (modern eastern Georgia ).

Life

Ashot was the second son of King Adarnases IV. As with Gurgen II († 941), the Bagratidenlinie of Upper Tao had died, his lands were divided among the other Bagratidenlinien and the King of Abkhazia. The Upper Tao, Javakheti, Kola, Artani and Schawscheti received Ashot II and around 952 the Byzantine emperor granted him the Armenian neighboring territory Phasiane. Atschara and Nigali fell to the king of Abkhazia. Sumbat II of Atschara - Nigali was compensated with Artanudj - Cholarzene. After Aschots death, who died without descendants, not only his lands and titles were shared, but. The nephew Aschots, Adarnase V. Magistros, received all the lands and the 958 Kuropalatentitel. He founded the second line of the Tao that. David III extinct in 1000. His brother Sumbat I. Kuropalat remained the Lower Tao and the royal dignity.

Ashot II donated along with his brother David II the church Opiza where the two founders are shown in a relief.