{{Short description|Georgian prince}} {{Infobox monarch | name = Sargis II Jaqeli | title = | image = Portrait Sargis II Jaqeli.jpg | caption = Fresco of Sargis II Jaqeli from the [[Sapara Monastery]]. | reign = 1308–1334 | coronation = | full name = | predecessor = [[Beka I Jaqeli|Beka I]] | successor = [[Qvarqvare I Jaqeli|Qvarqvare I]] | succession = Atabeg of [[Samtskhe-Saatabago|Samtskhe]] | dynasty = [[Jaqeli]] | father = [[Beka I Jaqeli]] | issue = [[Qvarqvare I Jaqeli]] | birth_date = 1271 | birth_place = | death_date = 1334 | death_place = | religion = [[Georgian Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]]| }} '''Sargis II Jaqeli''' ({{lang-ka|სარგის II ჯაყელი}}) (1271{{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} – 1334) was a Georgian [[prince]] (''[[mtavari]]'') and ruler of '''[[Samtskhe atabegate|Principality of Samtskhe]]''' from 1308 to 1334.<ref>[[Georgian Soviet encyclopedia]], volume 9, page 102, Tbilisi, 1985</ref>
== Biography == He was a son of Prince [[Beka I Jaqeli]]. During his father's reign Sargis participated in many campaigns. In 1290s Azat Mousa, leader of the Anatolian Turkoman tribes, attacked [[Samtskhe atabegate|Samtskhe]]. [[Beka I Jaqeli|Beka Jaqeli]] appointed Sargis as a commander of army and ordered him to stop Turks near village Vashlovani. Around 1303, Sargis [[Azat Mousa's invasion of Georgia|defeated Turkoman tribes]] and expelled them from [[Samtskhe|Meskhetian]] lands. In 1308, after his father's death, Sargis ascended the [[Atabeg|Atabeg's]] throne. He was made ''[[Amirspasalar]]'' and ''[[Atabeg]]'' of the [[Kingdom of Georgia]] by his nephew, King [[George V of Georgia|George V]] "the Brilliant".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mikaberidze |first1=Alexander |title=Historical Dictionary of Georgia |date=6 February 2015 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-4146-6 |page=150 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JNNQCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA150 |language=en}}</ref> After Sargis II's death, his son [[Qvarqvare I Jaqeli|Qvarqvare]] became a new Prince of Meskheti, also the vassal of [[Kingdom of Georgia|Georgian kingdom]].
Paintings of the House of Jaqeli during the period show them wearing the ''[[caftan]]'' with ''[[tiraz]]'' bands on the sleeves inscribed with [[Kufic]] letters.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eastmond |first1=Antony |title=Monumental Painting and the Role of Images in Armenia under the Mongols |date=1 January 2021 |location=Metropolitan Museum of Art |page=46 |url=https://www.academia.edu/98438550/Monumental_Painting_and_the_Role_of_Images_in_Armenia_under_the_Mongols}}</ref> Their caftan is decorated with the [[cloud collar]]s made of pearl embroidery, a design of Mongol Ilkhanate origin.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Вулета) |first1=Tatjana Vuleta (Татјана |title=The Cloud Collars from Lesnovo |journal=Patrimonium.MK 12 |date=1 January 2014 |page=181 and Fig.23 |url=https://www.academia.edu/107641992/The_Cloud_Collars_from_Lesnovo?email_work_card=view-paper |quote="the cloud collars decorated with pearl embroidery on the portraits of the Georgian princely family Djakeli from St. Saba in Sapara Monastery, 1285–1306. (fig.23), of Ilkhanate origin."}}</ref> This is also the costume worn at the time by the courtiers at the Mongol court in [[Tabriz]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eastmond |first1=Antony |title=Monumental Painting and the Role of Images in Armenia under the Mongols |date=1 January 2021 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |isbn=978-1588397379 |page=51, Note 12 |url=https://www.academia.edu/98438550/Monumental_Painting_and_the_Role_of_Images_in_Armenia_under_the_Mongols |quote=Many of the courtiers in the [[Great Mongol Shahnameh|Great Mongol Shahnamah]], made in [[Tabriz]] in the 1330s, wear similar dress. Melville 2002, figs 45, 51}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-hou|[[Jaqeli]]}} {{s-bef | before = [[Beka I Jaqeli|Beka I]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[Samtskhe-Saatabago|Prince of Meskheti]] | years = 1308-1334 }} {{s-aft | after = [[Qvarqvare I Jaqeli|Qvarqvare I]] }} {{s-end}}
{{Atabegs of Samtskhe}}
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