List of the Kings of Georgia

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The Coat of Arms of the Bagrationi Kingdom of Georgia, Kartli, and Kakheti.

This is a list of the kings and queens of Georgia, an ancient kingdom in the Caucasus Mountains which lasted until 1801. For more information on ancient Georgia, please see Caucasian Iberia. For information on the medieval and early modern kingdom of Georgia, please see the separate page, history of Georgia.

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[edit] Ancient Iberia

Iberia was a Greek-Roman name of the ancient kingdom of Kartli in what is now Eastern Georgia which began about 302 BC and fell to the Byzantines and Persians in 580. The lists of early Iberian kings are principally based on early medieval Georgian annals and is blended with legend and fact. Beginning with Artag (1st century BC), many of them are also attested by Roman/Byzantine, Armenian and Persian sources. There is also some lack of consistency about the dates of their reigns. The chronology below is given as per Javakhishvili, Toumanoff and other modern scholars.

[edit] Pharnavazians

[edit] Arshakids

[edit] Nimrodids, or Second Pharnavazian dynasty

[edit] Chosroids

[edit] Interregnum

Persian and Byzantine conquest destroyed rule and replaced the hereditary king with a hereditary prince who continued to fight until they finally regained power with the dawn of the Arabs in the seventh century. The following is a list of those princes:

[edit] Prince of Iberia

The eventual winners in Georgia were of the house of Bagrationi, who claimed descent from the earlier dynasty although their true origin is debatable. This family would rule Georgia and three break-away kingdoms until the Russians annexed all of Georgia in the early 1800s.

[edit] House of Bagrationi

[edit] Princes and Kings of Kartli

[edit] King of All Georgia

Mongolian Conquest 1292-1310

[edit] King of Kartli

The Kings of Georgia retained the largest portion of the divided kingdom which reverted to its old name of Kartli. Kingdom of Imereti and Kakheti emerged as the other Bagrationi kingdoms created out of the division.

Annexation to Kakheti 1630-1634

Annexation to Kakheti 1668-1691

  • Giorgi XI (1691-1695)

Annexation to Kakheti 1695-1703

Interregnum 1711-1714

[edit] King of Kartli and Kakheti

Upon Jesse's death and with help from the Persians, the two neighboring kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti were united once more. Imereti remained independent until its annexation by Russia in 1810.

Annexation of Kakheti and Kartli to Russia by Tsar Paul I before coronation, 1801.

[edit] Georgian Monarchy after 1801

Prince David Bagrationi-Mukhrani and Princess Anna Bagrationi-Gruzinski at their marriage in Tbilisi in 2008

After the Russian annexation of Kartli-Kakheti in 1801 and neighbouring Imereti in 1810 the various branches of the Bagrationi Dynasty of Georgian kings endured in Georgia under Russian occupation. However, many members were forced to flee the country and live in exile after the Red Army took control of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1921 and installed the Georgian Communist Party. Since the Republic of Georgia regained independence in 1990 the former royals have been raising their profile and in 2008 the two rival strands of the dynasty were united in marriage (see picture).

For more information about the royal family today see: Bagrationi Dynasty

(The majority of this list came from [1], The Royal Ark.)

[edit] Gallery of Kings of Georgia

Mirian III of Iberia

Bagrat III of Georgia

David IV of Georgia

George III of Georgia

Queen Tamar of Georgia (called King by her people)

George IV of Georgia

David VI of Georgia

Luarsab II of Kartli

Rostom of Kartli

George XI of Kartli

Teimuraz I of Kakheti

Erekle II

Solomon I of Imereti

Vakhtang VI of Kartli

George XII of Georgia

David Bagrationi

[edit] See also

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