Tigranes VII redirects here. Not to be confused with the famous king Tigranes II the Great.
Tiran (Armenian: Տիրան), was the king of Armenia from 339 AD to 350 AD. His reign was blemished by both internal and external conflict. Tiran had many disagreements with the reigning Catholicos St. Husik, so much that he ordered the execution of Husik in 347 AD. The Persians, under Shapur II, invaded Armenia and took the king as a hostage. They blinded and imprisoned him.
However, the Armenian nobility, assisted by the Romans, fought against the invaders and successfully drove them out. The Persians, defeated, signed a treaty and agreed to release Tiran. The king, depressed and blind, abdicated and handed the crown to Arshak II in 350 AD.
Translated from the Armenian: Mihran Kurdoghlian, Badmoutioun Hayots, A. hador [Armenian History, volume I], Athens, Greece, 1994, pg. 108
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