Mithridates ben Kartham, King of Armenia

• Preferred Name: Mithridates ben Kartham, King of Armenia
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Armenia - under the protection of the Roman EmpireBET 35 AND 37
  
• MilitaryService: invaded and overthrown - by nephew Rhadamistus, son of Pharasmanes I, King of Iberia51
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Armenia - restored to the Armenian throne by Claudius 4th Roman EmperorBET 42 AND 51
  
• FSID: LVSV-SNW
  
• MilitaryService: Rhadamistus smothered his uncle Mithridates to death, under a mass of heavy clothes and featherbeds51
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Pharnavazid prince of the Kingdom of Iberia
  
• Death: 1 in Roma, Lazio, Italy at LATI: N1.903 LONG: E2.4963 with note: calculated
  
• Birth: um 0051 v. Chr. with note: bisher todesjahr
  
• MilitaryService: New emperor Caligula had Mithridates arrested37
  
• MilitaryService: defeated Orodes, son of Artabanus II of Parthia - who attempted to dispossess Mithridates of his newly acquired kingdomABT 35 BC with note:
  
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  === Life Sketch ===
  Mithridates of Armenia (Georgian: მითრიდატე; Armenian: Միհրդատ Իբերացի, fl. 1st century) was a Pharnavazid prince of the Kingdom of Iberia who served as a King of Armenia under the protection of the Roman Empire.
  
  Mithridates was installed by Roman emperor Tiberius, who invaded Armenia in AD 35. When the Parthian prince Orodes, son of Artabanus II of Parthia, attempted to dispossess Mithridates of his newly acquired kingdom, Mithridates led a large Armenian and Iberian army and defeated the Parthians in a pitched battle (Tacitus, Annals. vi. 32–35).
  
  Around AD 37, the new emperor Caligula had Mithridates arrested, but Claudius restored him on the Armenian throne in AD 42. Subsequently, Mithridates' relations with his brother Pharasmanes I deteriorated to the point where the Iberian king instructed his son, Rhadamistus, to invade Armenia and overthrow Mithridates in AD 51.
  Betrayed by his Roman commanders, Mithridates surrendered. Roman historian Cassius Dio reports a likely apocryphal confrontation of Mithridates and Claudius in Rome.
  
  Mithridates, king of the Iberians, having been defeated in a conflict with a Roman army and despairing of his life, begged that a hearing should be granted him in order that he might not be summarily executed or led in the triumphal procession. When his request had been granted, Claudius received him in Rome, seated on a tribunal, and addressed threatening words to him. But Mithridates answered boldly, and ended by saying: "I was not brought to you; I came. If you doubt it, release me and try to find me."
  Mithridates was put to death by his nephew Rhadamistus, who usurped the crown and married his cousin Zenobia, Mithridates' daughter.

1. Aderk of Koudjide, b. um 0015 v. Chr.