Tiridates III of Armenia Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Kingship== In 270, the [[Roman emperor]] [[Aurelian]] engaged the [[Sassanid Empire|Sassanids]] on the eastern front and he was able to drive them back. Tiridates, as the true heir to the now Persian-occupied [[Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Armenian]] throne, came to Armenia and quickly raised an army and drove the enemy out in 298. For a while, fortune appeared to favour Tiridates. He not only expelled his enemies, but he carried his arms into Assyria. At the time the Persian Empire was in a distracted state. The throne was disputed by the ambition of two contending brothers, Hormuz and Narses.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}} The civil war was, however, soon terminated and Narses was universally acknowledged as King of Persia. Narses then directed his whole force against the foreign enemy. The contest then became too unequal. Tiridates once more took refuge with the Romans. The Roman-Armenian alliance grew stronger, especially while [[Diocletian]] ruled the empire. This can be attributed to the upbringing of Tiridates, the consistent Persian aggressions and the murder of his father by Anak. With Diocletian's help, Tiridates pushed the Persians out of Armenia.{{Sfn|Grigoryan|1987}} In 299, Diocletian left the Armenian state in a quasi-independent and [[protectorate]] status possibly to use it as a buffer in case of a Persian attack.{{Sfn|Barnes|1981|p=18}} In 297, Tiridates married an [[Alans|Alanian]] princess called [[Ashkhen]], by whom he had three children: a son called [[Khosrov III the Small|Khosrov III]], a daughter called [[Salome of Ujarma|Salome]], and another daughter who married [[St. Husik I]], one of the earlier [[Catholicos|Catholicoi]] of the [[Armenian Apostolic Church]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page