Japaridze (noble family)

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Jap'aridze (Georgian: ჯაფარიძე) was a Georgian noble family known from c. 1400.[1]

A family legend recorded by Prince Ioann of Georgia in his genealogical treatise holds it that the Jap'aridze descended from the Mongol ("Chingisid") officer in Racha called Jap'ar whose scions later converted to Georgian Orthodox Christianity and were ennobled by the kings of Georgia. The Jap'aridze formed several lines: a princely one in the Kingdom of Imereti, and a petite noble branches in the kingdoms of Kartli, Kakheti, and Imereti.[2]

Under the Russian rule, the family was received among the princely nobility in 1850.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). Studies in Christian Caucasian History, p. 272. Georgetown University Press.
  2. ^ Bagrationi, Ioane (1768-1830). Japaridze (Princes of Imereti). The Brief Description of the Georgian Noble Houses. Retrieved on December 19, 2007.
  3. ^ (Russian) Джапаридзе. Russian Biographic Lexicon. Retrieved on December 19, 2007.
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