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Guaram, themampali, (Georgian:გუარამ მამფალი) (died 882) was aGeorgian Bagratid prince and the youngest son ofAshot I, the founder of the Bagratid dynasty ofIberia/Kartli.
Guaram shared the control over the patrimonial holdings ofTao-Klarjeti with his two brothers —Bagrat I the Curopalate andAdarnase — his portion being the territory east of theArsiani Range except forKola (now inTurkey). According to theGeorgian Chronicles, Guaram was married to a sister of theArmenian rulerAshot V. Guaram pursued an aggressive policy of expansion. He seized the Bagratids' traditional foe, the Arabemir of Tbilisi, named Gabulots, and sent him in chains toByzantium. Following the extinction of the ruling house (vitaxae) ofGogarene, which had been in possession of several areas on the Georgian-Armenian frontier, Guaram acquiredJavakheti,Trialeti,Ashots, andArtani. The 10th-century hagiographerGiorgi Merchule praises Guaram's dignities and refers to him as "the great".[citation needed]
Prior to 876, Guaram handed over some of his possessions to his brothers, and gave Ashots to hisArmenian brother-in-law, Ashot V. Liparit, of theLiparitids (Baguashi), took overTrialeti, where he built the strongholdKlde-Karni and placed himself under suzerainty of Guaram's nephewDavid I the Curopalate soon after 876. These rearrangements left Guaram's sonNasra essentially with no inheritance and probably induced him in 881 to murder his cousin David I in a plot of which Guaram is reported by a medieval chronicler to have been ignorant. Guaram's younger son, Ashot, died in his father's lifetime, in 869. Guaram also had a daughter whose name is not recorded. She was married to two successiveAbasgian rulersAdarnase andBagrat I. Guaram spent his last years in retirement at theOpiza convent where he was buried after his death in 882.[1]