List of the Kings of Georgia

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

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

[edit] See also