Dinar of Hereti

Dinar (Georgian: დინარ დედოფალი, romanized: dinar dedopali) was a Georgian princess of the Bagrationi dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and Queen regnant of Hereti in the 11th century. She is venerated as a saint. The Georgian Orthodox Church commemorates her on June 30.

Queen Dinar
Fresco of Dinar at the Tsarina's Golden Chamber of Moscow Kremlin
Queen of Hereti
Reign	c. 1010s
Predecessor	John
Successor	Monarchy abolished
Queen mother of Hereti
Tenure	c. mid-10th century
Monarch	Ishkhanik
Spouse	Adarnase
Issue	Ishkhanik
Dynasty	Bagrationi dynasty
Father	Adarnase III
Religion	Georgian Orthodox Church

Life

Dinar was a daughter of hereditary ruler of Tao-Klarjeti, the eristavt-eristavi, "duke of dukes" Adarnase III of Tao by his unknown wife.

According to The Georgian Chronicles, Queen Dinar, during the reign of her son Ishkhanik, converted Hereti to the Georgian Orthodox Church.^[1]

King Ishkhanik and Queen Dinar participated in the ceremony organized on the occasion of the election of the new Catholicos of Albania in 962.^[2]

After 1000, Queen Dinar of Hereti had no option but to join a united Georgia under King Bagrat.^[3] When the campaign of Bagrat III to the Kingdom of Hereti, the main representative of the Hereti ruling circles was Queen Dinar. Bagrat III captured her and she must have been over 90 years old.^[4]

In Russia

Queen Dinar’s story is recounted in Russian chronicles more closely and The Tale of Tsaritsa Dinara may be about her.

On the north wall of the Throne Hall in the Moscow Kremlin, there is a fresco of Queen Dinar who is depicted as being mounted on a white horse, victorious over the enemy.