Abgar VIII

Abgar VIII of Edessa, also known as Abgar the Great, was a Syriac king of Osroene. It was maintained also that Abgar the Great should be regarded as Abgar IX, however, according to A. R. Bellinger and C. B. Welles, the assertion is incorrectcite book |last=Segal |first=J.B. |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Edessa: The Blessed City |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=2005 |month= |publisher=Gorgias Press LLC |location= |language= |isbn=1593331932 |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=14 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ] .

Abgar the Great was most remembered for his reputed conversion to Christianity in about 200 ADcite book |last=Ball |first=Warwick |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=2000 |month= |publisher=Routledge |location= |language= |isbn=0415113768 |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=91 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ] cite book |last=Shahid |first=Irfan |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Rome and the Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=1984 |month= |publisher=Dumbarton Oaks |location= |language= |isbn=0884021157 |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=47 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ] .

Upon his death in 212 AD,Abgar the Great was succeeded by his son Abgar IX surnamed Severus in contemporary Roman fashion. Though Abgar Severus was summoned with his son to Rome in 213 AD and murdered at the orders of Caracalla. A year later Caracalla ended the independence of Osroene and incorporated it as a province into Roman Empire.

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