Sanatruk

Sanatruk ( _hy. Սանատրուկ, Latinized as "Sanatruces") was a member of the Arshakuni Dynasty who may have succeeded Tiridates I of Armenia as King of Armenia at the end of the first century. Little or no information is available from either literary or numismatic sources regarding the successor of Tiridates.cite web
title = ii. The Pre-Islamic Period
work = ARMENIA AND IRAN
publisher = Iranica
url = http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v2f4/v2f4a071a.html
accessdate = 2008-01-12] Through the collation of various Classical and Armenian sources, Sanatruk is assumed to have reigned at the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries. Certain scholars proposed that Sanatruk succeeded Tiridates between 75 and 110 but this hypothesis for which there is no explicit evidence has been rejected by others.cite book
last =Hovannisian
first =Richard G.
authorlink=Richard G. Hovannisian
title =The Armenian people from ancient to modern times: from antiquity to the fourteenth century
publisher =Palgrave Macmillan
date =1997
pages =p. 69-70
id =ISBN 0-312-10168-6] His merits are praised by Arrian in his "Parthica" where he is equated with the most illustrious Greeks and Romans. Hagiographic tradition blames him for the martyrdom of the Apostle St. Thaddeus in Armenia. In 110 the throne of Armenia was held by Axidares, the son of the Parthian monarch of Atropatene, Pacorus II who was deposed in 113 by Trajan. A number of sources have named Sanatruk as one of the leaders of the revolt against Trajan's occupation by 117.

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