Rev I 'the Just' King of Caucasian Iberia

• Preferred Name: Rev I 'the Just' King of Caucasian Iberia^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• MilitaryService: enthroned by the rebellious Iberian nobles who deposed his maternal uncle, Amazasp II, last of the Pharnavazids.189
  
• Death: 216 in Mtskheta, Kartli, Caucasian Iberia at LATI: N0.43 LONG: E4
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of IberiaBET 189 AND 216
  
• Birth: ABT 170 in Mtskheta, Kartli, Caucasian Iberia at LATI: N0.43 LONG: E4
  
• FSID: LK3X-W4P
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: Arsacid dynasty
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Wikipedia -
  Rev I the Just (Georgian: რევ I მართალი, Rev Mart'ali) was a king of Iberia (natively known as Kartli, i.e., eastern Georgia) from 189 to 216 AD. His reign inaugurated the local Arsacid dynasty.
  The name "Rev" derives from Middle Iranian Rēw, itself from the Avestan adjective raēva, meaning "rich, splendid, opulent".
  
  He is known exclusively from the medieval Georgian annals which make him a son of the king of Armenia, whom Professor Cyril Toumanoff identifies with the Arsacid, Vologases II (r. 186-198). Rev was enthroned by the rebellious Iberian nobles who deposed his maternal uncle, Amazasp II, last of the Pharnabazids. Rev is reported to have married a "Greek" princess Sephelia who is said to have brought an idol of Aphrodite to Iberia, but there is no indication of a local cult of this Greek goddess having ever existing.
  
  The Georgian chronicle Life of the Kings says that Rev, albeit pagan, was sympathetic to the doctrines of Christianity and came to be known as mart'ali, or "the Just" for his patronage of a local embryonic Christian community.The Georgian historian Toumanoff illustrated that this sobriquet is a direct translation of dikaios, an epithet frequently used in the titulature of the Arsacid kings of Parthia
  
  Arsacid kings of Iberia
  Ruler Year
  Rev I .... 189 to 216
  Vache 216 to 234
  Bacurius I 234 to 249
  Mithridates II 249 to 265
  Amazaspus III 260 to 265
  Aspacures I 265 to 284

1. Vache King of Iberia, b. ABT 190 in Mtskheta, Kartli, Caucasian Iberia     d. 234 in Mtskheta, Kartli, Caucasian Iberia
2. Amazaspus Iberia II, b. 201 in Spain     d. ABT 270 in Spain

1. Title: Wikipedia - Rev I "the Just" King of Iberia
   Author: Rapp, Stephen H. (2003). Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts and Eurasian Contexts. Peeters. ISBN 978-2-87723-723-9. Rapp, Stephen H. (2014). The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4724-2552-2. Russell, James R. (2004). Armenian and Iranian studies. Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies. Vol. 9. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0935411195. Toumanoff, Cyril (1969). "Chronology of the early kings of Iberia". Traditio. Cambridge University Press. 25: 1–33. doi:10.1017/S0362152900010898. JSTOR 27830864. (registration required)
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev_I_of_Iberia;
   Note: Rev I King of Iberia (more...) Reign 189–216 Predecessor Amazasp II Successor Vache Spouse Sephelia Dynasty Arsacid dynasty Father Vologases II Mother daughter of Pharasmanes III Rev I the Just (Georgian: რევ I მართალი, romanized: rev I martali) was a king of Iberia (natively known as Kartli, i.e., eastern Georgia) from 189 to 216. His reign inaugurated the local Arsacid dynasty.[1] The name "Rev" derives from Middle Iranian Rēw, itself from the Avestan adjective raēva, meaning "rich, splendid, opulent".[2] He is known exclusively from the medieval Georgian annals which make him a son of the king of Armenia,[1] whom the historians Cyril Toumanoff and Stephen H. Rapp identifies with the Arsacid, Vologases II (r. 180–191).[3][4] Rev was enthroned by the rebellious Iberian nobles who deposed his maternal uncle, Amazasp II, last of the Pharnabazids. Rev is reported to have married a "Greek" princess Sephelia who is said to have brought an idol of Aphrodite to Iberia, but there is no indication of a local cult of this Greek goddess having ever existing.[1] The Georgian chronicle Life of the Kings says that Rev, albeit pagan, was sympathetic to the doctrines of Christianity and came to be known as martali, or "the Just" for his patronage of a local embryonic Christian community. Toumanoff illustrated that this sobriquet is a direct translation of dikaios, an epithet frequently used in the titulature of the Arsacid kings of Parthia.[1]