Bagration-Davitashvili
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Bagration-Davitashvili (Georgian: ბაგრატიონ-დავითაშვილი) is a Georgian family, a cadet branch of the Kakhetian line of the Bagrationi royal dynasty. Their ancestry traces back to the Kaketian prince Davit whose father, Demetre, was blinded by his brother Giorgi after the latter killed his reigning father Alexander I of Kakheti, and usurped the crown in 1511.[1] The Bagration-Davitashvili fled Kakheti to the neighboring Georgian kingdom of Kartli where they persisted as a princely family. After the annexation of Georgia by Imperial Russia, the family, in the person of Solomon Bagration-Davitashvili, was confirmed in princely dignity (Russian: Багратионы-Давыдовы, Bagration-Davidov) on December 21, 1849.[2]
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- ^ Royal Ark: Georgia. The Bagration Dynasty: Kakheti. Accessed on April 3, 2007.
- ^ Royal Ark: Georgia. The Bagration Dynasty: Kakheti – Davitashvili. Accessed on April 3, 2007.
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