[3] According to Constantin Zuckerman, however, his Zoroastrian name may have been Gadvšnasp prior to his conversion to Christianity, and he used the opportunity to become the ruler of the kingdom.
[4] He rose to prominence during Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, gaining the trust of Byzantine emperor Heraclius and being crowned king of Caucasian Albania in 628, following Sassanid marzban Gayšak's departure from Partav.
[5] He sent his second son Javanshir to Rostam Farrokhzad, who would take him to Ctesiphon before Yazdegerd III and fight at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah in 636.
Varaz Grigor, following Theodore Rshtuni, submitted to Muawiyah in 651,[1] however Javanshir preferred an alliance with Constans II and joined forces with Mousegh IV Mamikonien instead, in 654.
Varaz Grigor disappears from the sources after this, only to be mentioned in Chapter 25 of Book Two in The History of the Country of Albania, as a part of Javanshir's prayer in 663-664.