Katsia I Dadiani ( ka, კაცია I დადიანი; died 1710), of the

House of Dadiani The House of Dadiani ( ka, დადიანი ), later known as the House of Dadiani-Chikovani, was a Georgia (country), Georgian family of nobles, dukes and princes, and a ruling dynasty of the western Georgian province of Principality of Ming ...

, was

Prince of Mingrelia Principalities Princes and dukes of Guria *Kakhaber I Gurieli c. 1385–1410 * Mamia Gurieli c. 1450–1469 * Kakhaber II Gurieli 1469–1483 * Giorgi I Gurieli 1483–1512 * Mamia I Gurieli 1512–1534 * Rostom Gurieli 1534–1564 * Giorgi II Gu ...

from 1704 to 1710. Katsia was the eldest son of

Giorgi IV Dadiani Giorgi IV Dadiani ( ka, გიორგი IV დადიანი; died 1715) was Prince of Mingrelia from 1691 to 1704 and from 1710 to 1715. Giorgi's accession to rulership, following his ouster of the First House of Dadiani, inaugurated Min ...

by his wife, Sevdia Mikeladze, whom Giorgi divorced, in 1701, to marry Tamar, daughter of the powerful prince Giorgi-Malakia Abashidze, sometime King of Imereti. Katsia became Prince of Mingrelia on Giorgi IV Dadiani's abdication and retirement to the fiefdom of

Salipartiano Salipartiano ( ka, სალიპარტიანო) was a fief in the Principality of Mingrelia, in western Georgia, from the middle of the 16th century down to the establishment of the Russian hegemony in 1804, when it became a canton of Ming ...

in 1704, but he remained under his father's influence until 1709, when Katsia and his brother,

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—who never forgave Giorgi for divorcing their mother—forced Giorgi into flight to

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. Giorgi was able to return and reinstate himself as Prince of Mingrelia when Katsia died in 1710. Katisa was not married and had no children.

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{{s-end 1710 deaths House of Dadiani 18th-century people from Georgia (country) Year of birth missing