The House of Bagration-Davitashvili ( ka, ბაგრატიონ-დავითიშვილი) is a
Georgian noble family, a
cadet
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branch of the
Kakheti
Kakheti (; ) is a region of Georgia. Telavi is its administrative center. The region comprises eight administrative districts: Telavi, Gurjaani, Qvareli, Sagarejo, Dedoplistsqaro, Signagi, Lagodekhi and Akhmeta.
Kakhetians speak the ...
an line of the royal
Bagration dynasty. In turn, Kakhetian line descends from
George VIII, last king of the united Georgian kingdom and first king of Kakheti.
History
Their ancestry of this line of the family traces back to the Kakhetian prince Davit whose father, Demetre, was blinded by his brother
George II the Wicked after the latter killed his reigning father
Alexander I Alexander I may refer to:
* Alexander I of Macedon, king of Macedon from 495 to 454 BC
* Alexander I of Epirus (370–331 BC), king of Epirus
* Alexander I Theopator Euergetes, surnamed Balas, ruler of the Seleucid Empire 150-145 BC
* Pope Alex ...
, and usurped the crown in 1511.
His descendants, now named Bagration-Davitashvili, fled
Kingdom of Kakheti
The Kingdom of Kakheti ( ka, კახეთის სამეფო, tr; also spelled ''Kaxet'i'' or ''Kakhetia'') was a late medieval and early modern monarchy in eastern Georgia, centered at the province of Kakheti, with its capital first at ...
to the neighboring Georgian
Kingdom of Kartli
The Kingdom of Kartli ( ka, ქართლის სამეფო, tr) was a late medieval and early modern monarchy in eastern Georgia, centred on the province of Kartli, with its capital at Tbilisi. It emerged in the process of a tripar ...
, where they persisted as a
princely family.
After the annexation of Georgia by
Imperial Russia
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, the family, in the person of Prince Solomon Bagration-Davitashvili (1796-1859), was confirmed in princely dignity in the
Russian Empire
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(, Bagration-Davidov or Bagration-Davidoff) on December 21, 1849.
[Князья Давыдовы // ''Сост: А. В. Антонов''. Родословные росписи конца XVII века. — Вып. 6. — Москва: Изд. Российского государственного архива древних актов. Археографический центр, 1996. — С. 141—143. — ISBN 5-01-186169-1 (Т.6). ISBN 5-02-886169-6.]
See also
References
Branches of the Bagrationi dynasty
Noble families of Georgia (country)
Russian noble families
Georgian-language surnames
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