Tigranes VI of Armenia
Tigranes VI. , Tigran VI. or Latinized Gaius Julius Tigranes (Greek Γαίος Ιούλιος Τιγράνης, Armenian: Տիգրան; * before 25; † after 68 ) was a prince of the herodianschen Dynasty and Roman client king of Armenia during the 1st century AD The name Tigranes symbolizes the connection of Armenian and Hellenistic traditions and lineages.
Tigranes was of Jewish, Nabataean, Edomite, Greek, Armenian and Persian descent. He was a son of Alexander Herodianers from the marriage with a unidentified nobleman. It was named after his paternal uncle Tigranes V.. Tigranes V was King of Armenia during the reign of Augustus. Paternal His grandparents were Alexander and Glaphyra. His grandfather Alexander was a son of the Judean king Herod the Great and his wife Mariamne. His grandmother Glaphyra was the daughter of King Archelaus of Cappadocia. Their mother was an unknown Armenian princess who possibly had family ties to artaxidischen dynasty.
About the childhood and youth of Tigranes almost nothing is known. Tigranes was educated in Rome. His long stay in Rome earned him the accusation to have a characteristically adopted a slavish subservience. Tigranes married a Phrygian nobleman from central Anatolia called Opgalli. It is believed the Opgalli a Hellenized Jew was. Opgalli is only through numismatic sources known (Greek ΒΑΣ [- ΊΛΙΣΣΑ or ΙΛΕΙΑ ] ΟΠΓΑΛΛΥ "Queen Opgalli "). The marriage produced two children, the son of Gaius Julius Alexander and the daughter Iulia forth. These were the last descendants of the Cappadocian king's house.
In 58 Armenia was conquered by the Romans and allied troops ( Roman- Parthian War ( 58-63 ) ). Emperor Nero put a Tigranes as king of Armenia and gave him command of 1000 Legion soldiers, three Auxiliarkohorten and two Alen cavalry for the defense of Armenia. At the same time married his son Alexander in Rome kommagenische Princess Iotapa Iulia, the daughter of King Antiochus IV Nero sat the couple as clientele monarchy of Ketis, a region of Cilicia, a. Coins mention the title of King of Tigranes as ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΤΙΓΡΑΝΟΥ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ, "The Great King Tigranes ". The tigranische emission points to the reference and the merging of its Hellenistic and Armenian lineages and is regarded as evidence of the deliberate elimination of the Jewish line.
Tigranes later fell in Adiabene, a vassal kingdom of the Parthian, and deposed the local king Monobazes. The Partherherrscher Vologaeses I took the incident as aggression on the part of Rome's true and fell in turn into Armenia, where he besieged Tigranakert. In the peace treaty, it was agreed Trdat I use as king of Armenia, and to let this crown then in Rome. This clause of the peace treaty Tigranes was forced to resignation in the year 63.
Show written and numismatic sources that Nero planned to deliver Tigranes the throne again. However, the outbreak of the First Jewish- Roman War in 66 prevented the implementation.