# Sagdukht

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'''Sagdukht''' ({{lang-ka|საგდუხტი}}) was a 5th-century [queen consort](/source/Queen_consort_of_Iberia) of [Iberia](/source/Kingdom_of_Iberia), natively known as [Kartli](/source/Kartli) in eastern [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(country)), as wife of King [Mirdat V](/source/Mihrdat_V_of_Iberia). She was a daughter of [Barzabod](/source/Barzabod), a [Mihranid](/source/Mihranids) ruler of [Gardman](/source/Gardman).<ref>{{cite book|last=Toumanoff|first=Cyril|title=The Chronology of the Early Kings of Iberia|year=1969|publisher=Fordham University Press|url=https://archive.org/details/Toum1969EarlyIberianKings| page = [https://archive.org/details/Toum1969EarlyIberianKings/page/n28 28], n. 31}}</ref>

Sagdukht is primarily known from the Georgian chronicle, written by [Juansher](/source/Juansheriani) c. 800, relating life of King [Vakhtang I](/source/Vakhtang_I_of_Iberia), the son of Mirdat and Sagdukht. She is also mentioned as Sahakdukht in the works of the 13th-century Armenian historian [Vardan](/source/Vardan_Areveltsi). Modern historians such as [Ivane Javakhishvili](/source/Ivane_Javakhishvili), [Simon Janashia](/source/Simon_Janashia), and [Cyril Toumanoff](/source/Cyril_Toumanoff) identify her with the Sahakdukht recorded in a Georgian inscription on an icon from the Jvarisa church in the village of [Znakva](/source/Znakva).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Danelia|first1=Korneli|last2=Sarjveladze|first2=Zurab|title=ქართული პალეოგრაფია |trans-title=Georgian Paleography|year=1997|location=Tbilisi|page = 24}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Toumanoff|first=Cyril|title=Studies in Christian Caucasian history|year=1963|publisher=Georgetown University Press|location=Washington, DC | page = 400, n. 186}}</ref>

According to Juansher's chronicle, Sagdukht's hand was sought and obtained by Mirdat—then heir apparent to his reigning father [King Archil](/source/Archil_of_Iberia)—who was captivated by Sagdukht's beauty and also sought to ensure the peace between Iberia and Gardman, the Rani ([Arran](/source/Arran_(Caucasus))) of the Georgian source. The couple settled at Mirdat's appanage of [Samshvilde](/source/Samshvilde), where Sagdukht converted to Christianity and built the [church of Sioni](/source/Samshvilde_Sioni_church). Sagdukht gave birth to two daughters, Khvarandze and Mirandukht, and one son, Vakhtang. After Mirdat's death, Sagdukht assumed regency for her underage son under the protection of her father. Later, according to Juansher, Sagdukht and Khvarandze were temporarily left in government of Kartli during Vakhtang's absence on a military expedition against the [Alans](/source/Alans) in the [Caucasus Mountains](/source/Caucasus_Mountains).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gamq’relidze|first1=Dmitri|editor1-last=Jones|editor1-first=Stephen|title=Kartlis Tskhovreba. A History of Georgia|date=2014|publisher=Artanuji|location=Tbilisi|isbn=978-9941-445-52-1|pages=78–82|url=http://www.science.org.ge/books/Kartlis%20cxovreba/Kartlis%20Cxovreba%202012%20Eng.pdf|chapter=Juansher Juansheriani, The Life of Vakht'ang Gorgasali|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713213859/http://www.science.org.ge/books/Kartlis%20cxovreba/Kartlis%20Cxovreba%202012%20Eng.pdf|archive-date=2015-07-13}}</ref>

== References ==
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Category:5th-century queens consort
Category:Queens consort from Georgia (country)
Category:Converts to Christianity from Zoroastrianism
Category:Mihranids
Category:5th-century Iranian people
Category:Regents of Georgia
Category:Mothers of Georgian monarchs

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