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Personal data Vardan I Mamikonian 

• He was born in the year 393.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Vervult een missie voor zijn grootvader patriarch Sahak, naar Constantinopel. In 450 wordt hij samen met andere leidende edelen door de Perzen naar Ctesiphon ontboden. Daar werden ze gedwongen om de Armeense kerk meer aansluiting te laten zoeken bij de Nestoriaanse kerk en de banden met de Katholieke kerk los te laten. Dit omdat de Perzen de Katholieke kerk als een instrument van de Romeinse macht zagen. Bij thuiskomst werden de edelen geconfronteerd met een massaal verzet en brak een opstand uit. Vardan neemt de leiding van de opstand op zich en leidt het leger op 26 mei 451 in de verloren slag bij Vartanantz. Vardan en alle leidende Armeense edelen worden daarbij gedood. Vardan is heilig verklaard en geldt in Armenië als een nationale held, 26 mei is er een feestdag. overleden 26 mei 451

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Vardan Mamikonian (Armenian: ?????? ??????????) (393 AD — 451 AD), also known as Saint Vardan (in Armenian ????? ??????) ( Saint Vartan in Western Armenian transliteration and pronunciation) was an Armenian military leader, a martyr and a saint of the Armenian Church.
  
  Vardan Mamikonian, a member of the Mamikonian family, is revered as one of the greatest military and spiritual leaders of Christian Armenia in the 5th century. Saint Vardan Day, usually in February (rarely at times in first week of March but always falling on a Thursday), is commemorated by churches in Armenia and the Armenian diaspora. Major Christian Armenian churches are named after Saint Vardan. A major equestrian statue representing him is found in the Armenian capital Yerevan.
  Biography
  
  Birth
  
  Vardan Mamikonian was born in 393 AD to Hamazasp Mamikonian (in Armenian ???????? ??????????) and to Sahakanoush (in Armenian ??????????), the daughter of Saint Sahak the Great and descendant of the Arsacid Kings and Saint Gregory the Illuminator.
  
  Life
  
  After Vardan became Sparapet (army leader) in 432, the Persians summoned him to Ctesiphon. Upon his return home in 450, Vardan repudiated the Persian religion and instigated an Armenian rebellion against their Sassanian overlords.
  
  Vardan died in the doomed Battle of Avarayr on the Avarayr Plain in Vaspurakan. The also known as the Battle of Vartanantz, was fought on May 26, 451 AD on the Avarayr Plain in Vaspurakan, between the Armenian Army under Saint Vardan and the Sassanid (Persian) rulers. The Persians were victorious on the battlefield itself, and Vardan was killed in battle.
  
  After death
  
  After his death, the insurrection continued led by Vahan Mamikonian, the son of Vartan's brother, resulting in the restoration of Armenian autonomy with the Nvarsak Treaty (484), thus guaranteeing the survival of Armenian statehood in later centuries.
  
  Family
  
  Vardan Mamikonian is the father of Vardeni Mamikonian (known also as (Armenian: ????????, Georgian: ????????) transliterated as Shushanik or Shoushanig), born around 409 AD. She married Varsken of Georgia. When her husband, a prominent Georgian feudal lord (pitiakhsh) Varsken took a pro-Persian position renouncing Christianity and adopting Zoroastrianism, he tried to force his wife Shushanik to convert, but she refused vehemently to submit to his orders to abandon her Christian faith and was put to death in 475 AD on Varsken's orders. Shushanik has been canonized by the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church and is venerated by the Armenian Apostolic Church. Known as Saint Shushanik, her feast day is celebrated on October 17.
  Veneration
  Saint Vardan
  
  After his death, Vardan Mamikonian was consecrated as a saint of the Armenian Apostolic Church. He is commonly known as Saint Vardan (in Armenian ????? ??????) (in Eastern Armenian transliteration and pronunciation Surb Vardan, in Western Armenian transliteration and pronunciation as Saint Vartan or Sourp Vartan).
  
  He is also reverred by the Armenian Catholic Church as a saint of the church and by Armenian Evangelical Church.
  
  His commemoration day in the official Armenian Church calendar is usually in the month of February and on very rare occasions may fall in the first week of March. The actual Saint Vardan day is a moving day, as it always has to fall on a Thursday.
  
  Major Christian Armenian churches are named after Saint Vardan, including St. Vartan Cathedral in New York City.
  
  Vardan and Western Armenian variant Vartan are both very common given names for Armenian males. Vardanian, Vardanyan and Vartanian are also common Armenian family names.

• He died on May 26, 451, he was 58 years old.
• A child of Hamazasp I Mamikonian and Sahakonoysh van Armenie
• This information was last updated on December 17, 2012.

Household of Vardan I Mamikonian

Child(ren):

1. Vardeni "Saint Shushanik" Mamikonian  440-475 

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