Ivane Mkhargrdzeli

Atabegate When his brother Zakare died in 1213, Ivane was offered the title of Amirspasalar, but he declined.

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direction =horizontal image1 = Image Ախթալա 10 (enhanced).jpg caption1 = image2 = Akhtala Monastery, Pontius Pilate and Christ.jpg caption2 = footer=The murals of Akhtala Monastery, in Armenian-Chalcedonian style, were commissioned by Ivane in 1205-1216.

Ivane also founded the Tejharuyk Monastery in 1196–99, the Church of the Mother of God (Surb-Astuacacin) in the Monastery of Haṙič, and renovated Haghartsin Monastery together with his brother Zakare, which he selected as the family's burial ground.

Mongol and Kipchack invasions Zakarid Prince Grigor Khaghbakian on horse, in his khatchkar (1233). He fought against the Kipchacks under the command of Ivane. The 13th century Armenian historian Kirakos Gandzaketsi reports the first 1220 Mongol incursions under Subutai, part of the Mongol invasions of Georgia. This first wave was only composed of 3 tümen (30,000 men), and was actually on a search for the fugitive Khwarizmian ruler Muhammad II of Khwarazm. The Zakarids served under the Georgian king George IV of Georgia to repulse them, with Ivane acting as atabeg (Governor General) and Amirspasalar (Commander-in-chief), their army only half the size of the Mongol one. The Georgians and Armenians were defeated, but the Mongol retreated with heavy losses. The Mongols came back the following year, but were blocked on the road to Tbilissi by an army of 70,000. The Mongols again won, but retreated to Tabriz. A third encounter the same year virtually annihilated the Georgian army, and the Mongols continued north to confront the Kipchaks at far as Soldaia, and the Rus' Principalities at the Battle of the Kalka River. Before dying, George IV made an alliance with the Sultanate of Rum, by marrying his sister Rusudan to Ghias ad-Din, son of the emir of Erzurum.

In 1222, the Kipchaks, fleeing from Mongol devastation, came to the Armenian city of Gandzak, where they encountered the troops of the atabeg Ivane Zakarian, who were again defeated. Although the Georgians ultimately prevailed in 1223, the Zakarian Prince Grigor Khaghbakian was captured and tortured to death by the Kipchak Turks.

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