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Revision as of 14:59, 9 January 2011

"Queen of Georgia" redirects here. For the consorts of Georgia, see List of Georgian consorts.
King of Georgia
File:Combined Bagrationi Coat of Arms.jpg
The Coat of Arms of the Bagrationi Kingdom of Georgia
George XII
Details
First monarchBagrat III
Last monarchGeorge XII
Formation1008
Abolition1800
Pretender(s)Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky
(Gruzinsky branch)
David Bagration
(Mukhrani branch)

This is a list of the kings and queens of the various kingdoms and principalities of Georgia until Russian annexation in 1801.

For the unified kingdom of Georgia (10th to 15th centuries), ruled by the Bagrationi dynasty, see List of Bagrationi rulers of Georgia.

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.

Pharnavazids

Artaxiads

Nimrodids, or Second Pharnavazid dynasty

Arsacids

Chosroids

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 7th century. The following is a list of those princes:

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 19th century.

House of Bagrationi

Princes and Kings of Kartli

King of All Georgia

Mongolian Conquest 1292-1310

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

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.

Georgian Monarchy after 1801

File:David and Anna Bagrationi.JPG
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.)

Gallery of Monarchs of Georgia

See also

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