Tigranes, the son or brother of Artavasdos…

Tigranes, the son or brother of Artavasdos I of Armenia and a member of the dynasty founded in the early second century BCE by Artaxias, had been given as a hostage to the Parthian king Mithridates II.

He eventually purchases his freedom by ceding seventy valleys bordering on Media, in northwestern Iran, and in his mid-forties becomes king of Armenia in 95.