{{Short description|Prince of Iberia from 627 to c. 640}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Adarnase I | title = | image = Mcheta Monastery of Cross bas-relief.jpg | caption = A bas-relief from Mtskheta depicting Adarnase I praying before Jesus. | succession = Ruler of Iberia | reign = 627 -637/642 | coronation = | predecessor = Stephen I | successor = Stephen II | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | burial_date = | burial_place = | spouse = | issue = Stephen II of Iberia | full name = | father = | mother = | royal house = | dynasty = Chosroid dynasty }} '''Adarnase I''' ({{lang-ka|ადარნასე I}}) or '''Adrnerse''' (ადრნერსე, also transliterated as Atrnerseh), of the Chosroid dynasty, was a presiding prince of Iberia (Kartli, eastern Georgia) from 627 to 637/642.
The name Adarnase derives from Middle Persian ''Ādurnarsēh'', with the second component of the word (''Nase'') being the Georgian attestation of the Middle Persian name ''Narseh'', which ultimately derives from Avestan ''nairyō.saŋya-''.<ref name="Iranica">{{cite encyclopedia | title = GEORGIA v. LINGUISTIC CONTACTS WITH IRANIAN LANGUAGES | last = Chkeidze | first = Thea | url = https://iranicaonline.org/articles/georgia-v- | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. X, Fasc. 5 | pages = 486–490 | year = 2001 }}</ref> The Middle Persian name ''Narseh'' also exists in Georgian as ''Nerse''.<ref name="Iranica"/> The name ''Ādurnarsēh'' appears in the Armenian language as ''Atrnerseh''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rapp |first1=Stephen H. Jr |title=The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-4724-2552-2 |page=335}}</ref>
He was the son of Bakur III, the last king of Iberia, and a hereditary duke (eristavi) of Kakheti. In 627, he assisted the Byzantine-Khazar army with the siege of Tbilisi and was made ruler of Iberia by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius who had the pro-Sasanid prince Stephanus I executed. Somewhere between 637 and 642 (i.e., after the battle of al-Qādisiyyah and before that of Nihawānd), he joined his forces with the Albanian prince Javanshir in an attack on Iranian garrisons in Albania.<ref name="Martindale">Martindale, John Robert (1992), ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', pp. 13-14. Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|0-521-07233-6}}.</ref> According to the seventh-century historian Movses Daskhurantsi, Adarnase wore three Byzantine titles. He is identified by the art historian Wachtang Djobadze with the honorary consul Adarnase (Adrnerse hypatos) recorded on an inscription from the Jvari Monastery at Mtskheta, Georgia. Cyril Toumanoff argues, however, that this Adrnerse is actually Adarnase II active in the late seventh century.<ref name="Rapp">Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), ''Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts'', p. 344. Peeters Bvba, {{ISBN|90-429-1318-5}}.</ref> His other titles are likely to have been those of ''patrikios'' and perhaps ''stratelates''.<ref name="Martindale"/> He was the father of and was succeeded by Stephen II of Iberia.
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