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Tsotne Dadiani ((グルジア語:ცოტნე დადიანი)) (died ) was a Georgian nobleman of the House of Dadiani and one of the leading political figures in the time of Mongol ascendancy in Georgia. Around 1246, he was part of a failed plot aimed at overthrowing the Mongol hegemony, but survived arrest and torture in captivity that befell upon his fellow conspirators when their designs to stage a rebellion was betrayed to the Mongols. A story from the medieval Georgian annals relating Tsotne's insistence on sharing his accomplices' fate that moved the Mongols to mercy made him a popular historical figure and a saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church. == Sources and family background == Tsotne Dadiani came of the noble family, which was in possession of Odishi, latter-day Mingrelia, in western Georgia. The principal source on his biography is the early 14th-century anonymous ''Chronicle of a Hundred Years'', which is included in the corpus of ''Georgian Chronicles'' and relates the history of Georgia from c. 1213 to c. 1320. Tsotne Dadiani is identified by various modern scholars with several historical persons known from medieval sources. These are: * The boy-nobleman Tsotne depicted with his father Shergil Dadiani and mother Nateli in a fresco in the Dadiani chapel (''eukterion'') in the Khobi Cathedral, with identifying inscriptions. These three persons are also mentioned in an inscription of the icon in which the precious cross pendant of Queen Tamar was encased.〔 * Tsotne Dadiani, ''mandaturt-ukhutsesi'' ("Lord High Steward") and ''eristavt-eristavi'' ("Duke of Dukes"), mentioned in a document from the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem, instituting an ''agape'' for him for 12 June.〔 * Dadian-Bediani, son of Juansher, mentioned in the ''Chronicle of a Hundred Years''. The person with this name, ''Bediani'' being a territorial epithet, and the title of ''mandaturt-ukhutsesi'' is also known from the icon inscriptions from Martvili and Khobi. These inscriptions also identify Dadiani's wife Khuashak, a daughter of Bega, ''eristavi'' of Kartli, and their sons: Giorgi, Ioane, and Erashahr. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tsotne Dadiani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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