Ablgharib

Armenian lord of Birejik

Ablgharib (Armenian: Աբուլ Ղարիբ) was Armenian lord of Birejik and chief of the Pahlavuni clan. He was installed as governor of Birejik by Baldwin I following the crushing of an Armenian conspiracy in 1098.^[1] He joined Baldwin I and Kogh Vasil in their campaign in the north to lift Mawdud's siege on Edessa in 1110.^[2][3] Finally, he was displaced by Baldwin II, following a year of siege, in 1117.^[4][5] Baldwin II gave Birejik to his cousin Waleran of Le Puiset, who married another of Ablgharib's daughters.^[6]

References

1. Runciman 1989a, p. 211.
2. MacEvitt 2010, p. 91.
3. Barber 2012, pp. 99–100.
4. Fink 1969, p. 405.
5. Runciman 1989b, p. 129.
6. Morton 2020, p. 82.

Sources

• Barber, Malcolm (2012). The Crusader States. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11312-9.
• Fink, Harold S. (1969). "The Foundation of the Latin States, 1099–1118". In Setton, Kenneth M.; Baldwin, Marshall W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades, Volume One: The First Hundred Years. The University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 368–409. ISBN 978-1-58684-251-2.
• MacEvitt, Christopher (2010). The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4050-4.
• Morton, Nicholas (April 2020). The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192557988.
• Runciman, Steven (1989) [1951]. A History of the Crusades, Volume I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-06161-2. (registration required)
• Runciman, Steven (1989b). A History of the Crusades, Volume II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-06162-9.