It Was (They Say) From His Being Fired By The Example Of His
Fathers, Who Came To Adore Christ In The Cradle, That He Was Proposing To
Go To Jerusalem, When He Was Prevented By The Cause Already Alleged."
Professor Bruun will not accept Oppert's explanation, which identifies
this King and Priest with the Gur-Khan of Karacathay, for
Whose profession
of Christianity there is indeed (as has been indicated - supra) no real
evidence; who could not be said to have made an attack upon any pair of
brother Kings of the Persians and the Medes, nor to have captured Ecbatana
(a city, whatever its identity, of Media); who could never have had any
intention of coming to Jerusalem; and whose geographical position in no
way suggested the mention of Armenia.
Professor Bruun thinks he finds a warrior much better answering to the
indications in the Georgian prince John Orbelian, the general-in-chief
under several successive Kings of Georgia in that age.
At the time when the Gur-Khan defeated Sanjar the real brothers of the
latter had been long dead; Sanjar had withdrawn from interference with the
affairs of Western Persia; and Hamadan (if this is to be regarded as
Ecbatana) was no residence of his. But it was the residence of Sanjar's
nephew Mas'ud, in whose hands was now the dominion of Western Persia;
whilst Mas'ud's nephew, Daud, held Media, i.e. Azerbeijan, Arran, and
Armenia. It is in these two princes that Professor Bruun sees the
Samiardi fratres of the German chronicler.
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