Bagrationi dynasty

Bagrations ბაგრატიონები Bagrationebi
Coat of Arms
Country	Georgia
Titles	Prince of Iberia King of Iberia King of Tao-Klarjeti King of Abkhazia King of Hereti King of Kartli King of Kakheti King of Imereti King of Kartli-Kakheti King of United Georgia
Founded	600
Final ruler	George XII and Solomon II
Current head	Prince Nugzar Bagrationi[1][2][3] (disputed) Prince David Bagrationi[4][5][6] (disputed)
Ethnicity	Georgian
Cadet branches	House of Imereti

History of Georgia
Prehistoric Georgia Shulaveri-Shomu culture Kura–Araxes culture Trialeti culture Colchian culture Kingdom of Diauehi
Ancient history Colchis Caucasian Iberia Roman Georgia Lazica-Egrisi Christianization
Middle Ages Bagrationi dynasty Principate of Iberia Arab rule in Georgia Emirate of Tbilisi Egrisi-Abkhazia Tao-Klarjeti Duchy of Kldekari Kingdom of Hereti United Kingdom of Georgia Mongol invasions Timur's invasions Turkmen invasions Duchy of Racha Duchy of Ksani Duchy of Aragvi
Early modern history Kingdom of Kartli Kingdom of Kakheti Kingdom of Imereti Guria Svaneti Meskheti Samegrelo Abkhazeti Kingdom of Kartli Kakheti
Modern history Georgia within the Russian Empire Democratic Republic of Georgia Red Army invasion of Georgia Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Georgia since 1991
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The Bagrationi Royal Dynasty (Georgian: ბაგრატიონი, bagrationi) ruled Georgia from the Middle Ages until the early 19th century, being among the oldest extant Christian royal dynasties in the world.^{[7][8][9][10][11]} In modern usage, this royal line is often referred to as the Georgian Bagratids (a Hellenized form of their dynastic name), also known in English as the Bagrations.

The origin of the Bagrationi dynasty is disputed, as well as the time when they first appeared on Georgian soil. The history of the dynasty is inextricably bound with that of Georgia. Their ancestors began their rule, in the early 9th century, as reigning princes in historic southwestern Georgia and the adjacent Georgian marchlands reconquered from Arabs.^[12] Subsequently they restored, in 888, the Georgian kingdom, which prospered from the 11th to the 13th century, bringing several regional polities under its control. This period of time, particularly the reigns of David IV (1089–1125) and his great granddaughter Tamar (1184–1213), is celebrated as a "golden age" in the history of Georgia, the era of empire, military exploits, and remarkable achievements in culture.^[12]

After fragmentation of the unified Kingdom of Georgia in the late 15th century, the branches of the Bagrationi dynasty ruled the three breakaway Georgian kingdoms: Kingdom of Kartli, Kingdom of Kakheti and Kingdom of Imereti until Russian annexation in the early 19th century.^[12] The dynasty persisted in exile as an Imperial Russian noble family until the 1917 February Revolution. The establishment of the Soviet rule in Georgia in 1921 forced some members of the family to accept demoted status and loss of property in Georgia, others relocated to Western Europe,^[12] although some repatriated after Georgian independence in 1991.

Origins

The Bagrationi dynasty is said to be the oldest royal dynasty in Europe,^{[7][9][10][11]} although Walter Curley's Monarchs-in-Waiting attributes that distinction to the Royal House of France,^[13] as does Joseph Valynseele's Les Prétendants aux Trônes d'Europe,^[14] while L. G. Pine contends that the Irish ruler, Niall of the Nine Hostages, fl. in the 5th century CE.^[15]

According to a family legend, taken down by the 11th century Georgian chronicler Sumbat Davitis-Dze,^[16] and supplied much later by Prince Vakhushti Bagrationi (1696–1757) with chronological data, the ancestors of the dynasty traced their descent to the biblical king and prophet David and came from Palestine around 530 AD. Tradition has it that of seven refugee brothers of the Davidic line, three of them settled in Armenia and the other four arrived in Kartli (also known as Iberia), where they intermarried with the local ruling houses and acquired some lands in hereditary possession.^{[citation needed]} One of the four brothers, Guaram (died in 532), allegedly gave an origin to a line subsequently called Bagrationi after his son Bagrat.^[17]

A successor, Guaram, was installed as a presiding prince of Kartli under the Byzantine protectorate, receiving on this occasion the Byzantine court title of Kouropalates^[18] in 575.^[19] Thus, according to this version, began the dynasty of the Bagratids, who ruled until 1801.^[20]

This tradition enjoyed general acceptance until the early 20th century.^[21] While the Jewish origin, let alone the biblical descent, of the Bagratids has been largely discounted by modern scholarship, their origin still remains controversial. Several Soviet-era historians of Georgia developed a view summarized by N. Berdzenishvili et al. in their standard reference book on the history of Georgia:

“	The illustrious dynasty of the Bagrationi originated in the most ancient Georgian district – Speri (today İspir). The Bagrationi achieved great influence from the sixth through eighth centuries.[citation needed] One of their branches moved to Armenia, the other to Iberia, and both won for themselves the dominant position among the other rulers of Transcaucasia.[22]	”

Many modern scholars, however, question the above version, referring to a more complex analysis of primary Armenian and Georgian sources.

Cyril Toumanoff's research concluded that the Georgian Bagratids branched out of the Armenian Bagratid dynasty in the person of Adarnase, whose father Vasak (son of Ashot III the Blind, presiding prince of Armenia from 732 to 748) passed to Kartli following an abortive uprising against Arab rule in 772. Adarnase’s son, Ashot I, acquired the principality of Kartli in 813 and thus founded the last royal house of Georgia. Accordingly, the legend of the Davidic origin of the Georgian Bagratids was a further development of the earlier claim entertained by the Armenian dynasty, as given in the work of the Armenian author Moses of Khorene.^[23] Once the Georgian branch, which had quickly acculturated in the new environment,^[24] assumed royal power, the myth of their biblical origin helped to assert their legitimacy and emerged as a major ideological pillar of the millennium-long Bagrationi rule in Georgia.^[25]

Although certain, the generation-by-generation history of the Bagrationi dynasty begins only in the late 8th century.^[12] Toumanoff claimed that the first Georgian branch of the Bagratids may be traced as far back as the 2nd century AD, when they were said to rule over the princedom of Odzrkhe in what is now southern Georgia.^[26] The Odzrkhe line, known in the medieval annals as the Bivritianis, lasted until the 5th century AD. They cannot be considered the direct ancestors of the later Bagratids who eventually restored Georgian royal authority.^[27]

History

Early dynasty

"In old times all the kings of Georgia were born with the figure of an eagle upon the right shoulder."

Marco Polo[28][29][30]

The Bagrationi family had grown in prominence by the time the Georgian monarchy (Caucasian Iberia) fell to the Sassanid Persian Empire in the 6th century, and the leading local princely families were exhausted by Arab attacks. The rise of the new dynasty was made possible by the extinction of the Guaramids and the near-extinction of the Chosroids,^[31] (the two earlier Georgian dynasties with whom the Bagratids extensively intermarried), and also by the Abbasid preoccupation with their own civil wars and conflict with the Byzantine Empire. Although Arab rule did not allow them a foothold in the ancient capital of Tbilisi and eastern Kartli, the Bagratids successfully maintained their initial domain in Klarjeti and Samtskhe and, under the Byzantine protectorate, extended their possessions southward into the northwestern Armenian marches to form a large polity conventionally known in modern history as Tao-Klarjeti. In 813, the new dynasty acquired, with Ashot I, the hereditary title of presiding prince of Iberia (Kartli), to which the emperor attached the honorific of kourapalates.

Despite the revitalization of the monarchy, Georgian lands remained divided among rival authorities, with Tbilisi remaining in Arab hands. The sons and grandsons of Ashot I established three separate branches – the lines of Kartli, Tao, and Klarjeti – frequently struggling with each other and with neighboring rulers. The Kartli line prevailed; in 888, with Adarnase I, it restored the indigenous Georgian royal authority dormant since 580. His descendant Bagrat III was able to consolidate his inheritance in Tao-Klarjeti and the Abkhazian Kingdom, due largely to the diplomacy and conquests of his energetic foster-father David III of Tao.

Golden Age

Mameluke Sultans of Egypt used to address the Georgian kings as: "the kernel of the religion of the Cross, the great monarch, the hero, the bold, just to his subjects, the successor of the Greek kings, protector of the homeland of the knights, supporter of the faith of Jesus, the anointed leader of Christian heroes, the best of close companions, and the friend of kings and sultans."

Aḥmad b. Faḍl Allāh al-‘Umarī[32]

This unified monarchy maintained its precarious independence from the Byzantine and Seljuk empires throughout the 11th century, flourished under David IV the Builder (1089–1125), who repelled the Seljuk attacks and essentially completed the unification of Georgia with the re-conquest of Tbilisi in 1122.^[12] With the decline of Byzantine power and the dissolution of the Great Seljuk Empire, Georgia became one of the pre-eminent nations of the Christian East, her pan-Caucasian empire^[33] stretching, at its largest extent, from the North Caucasus to northern Iran, and eastwards into Asia Minor.

In spite of repeated incidents of dynastic strife, the kingdom continued to prosper during the reigns of Demetrios I (1125–1156), George III (1156–1184), and especially, his daughter Tamar the Great (1184–1213).^[12] With the death of George III the main male line went extinct and the dynasty continued through the marriage of Queen Tamar with the Alan prince David Soslan, of reputed Bagratid descent.^[34]

Downfall

The invasions by the Khwarezmians in 1225 and the Mongols in 1236 terminated Georgia’s "golden age". The struggle against the Mongol rule created a diarchy, with an ambitious lateral branch of the Bagrationi dynasty holding sway over western Georgia (Imereti). There was a brief period of reunion and revival under George V the Brilliant (1299–1302, 1314–1346), but the eight onslaughts of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur between 1386 and 1403 dealt a great blow to the Georgian kingdom. Its unity was finally shattered and, by 1490/91, the once powerful monarchy fragmented into three independent kingdoms – Kartli (central to eastern Georgia), Kakheti (eastern Georgia), and Imereti (western Georgia) – each led by a rival branch of the Bagrationi dynasty, and into five semi-independent principalities – Odishi, Mingrelia, Guria, Abkhazia, Svaneti, and Samtskhe – dominated by their own feudal clans.

The Georgian rulers maintained their perilous autonomy during the three subsequent centuries of the Ottoman and Persian domination, although sometimes serving as little more than puppets in the hands of their powerful suzerains.^[12]

The line of Imereti, incessantly embroiled in civil war, continued with many breaks in succession, and the kingdom was only relatively spared from the encroachments of its Ottoman overlords, while Kartli and Kakheti were subjected to numerous invasions by the Persians, whose efforts to annihilate the fractious vassal kingdoms were in vain, and the two eastern Georgian monarchies, though occasionally losing independence in the course of their history, survived to be reunified in 1762 under King Erekle II, who united in his person both the Kakhetian and Kartlian lines, the latter represented by its junior branch of Mukhraneli since 1658.^{[citation needed]}

Last monarchs

"If the dynasty of the Moscovites should be extinguished the Princes of Georgia would succeed"

Evliya Çelebi[35]

Having gained de facto independence from Persia, Erekle II (Hercules) achieved a degree of stability in the country and established his political hegemony in eastern Transcaucasia. In the 1783 Treaty of Georgievsk, he placed his kingdom under the protection of Imperial Russia.^[12] The latter failed, however, to provide timely help when the Persian ruler Agha Muhammad Khan Qajar attacked Tbilisi in 1795 to compel severance of Georgian ties to Russia.^[12]

After the death of Erekle in 1798, his son and successor, King George XII, renewed a request for protection from Emperor Paul I of Russia,^[12] and urged him to intervene in the bitter dynastic feud among the numerous sons and grandsons of the late Erekle. Paul offered to incorporate the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti into the Russian Empire, while reserving to its native dynasty a degree of internal autonomy – essentially, mediatisation.^[12] Negotiations of terms were still in process,^[36] when Paul signed a manifesto on December 18, 1800, unilaterally declaring the annexation of Kartli-Kakheti to the Russian Empire.^[12][37] This proclamation was kept secret until the death of King George on December 28. His eldest son, the Tsarevich Davit, had been formally acknowledged as heir apparent by Emperor Paul on 18 April 1799, but his accession as king after his father's death was not recognized.

On September 12, 1801, Emperor Alexander I of Russia formally re-affirmed Paul’s determination, deposing the Bagrationi dynasty from the Georgian throne.^[12][37] Although divided among themselves, some of the Bagrationi princes resisted Russian annexation, trying to instigate rebellion. Most of them were subsequently arrested and deported from Georgia.^[38]

The reign of the House of Imereti came to an end less than a decade later. On April 25, 1804, the Imeretian king Solomon II, nominally an Ottoman vassal, was persuaded to conclude the Convention of Elaznauri with Russia, on terms similar to those of the Treaty of Georgievsk. Yet the Russian forces dethroned Solomon on February 20, 1810. Defeated during a subsequent rebellion to regain power, he died in exile in Trabzon, Ottoman Turkey, in 1815.^[39]

Bagrationi in Russia

"Russia has no good generals. The only exception is Bagration"

Napoleon on Prince Pyotr Bagration[40][41][42][43]

In the Russian Empire the Bagrationis became a prominent family of aristocrats. The most famous was Prince Pyotr Bagration, a great-grandson of King Jesse of Kartli who became a Russian general and hero of the Patriotic War of 1812.^[12] His brother Prince Roman Bagration also became a Russian general, distinguishing himself in the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), and was the first to enter Yerevan in 1827. Roman Bagration was also known for his patronage of the arts, literature and theatre. His home theater in Tbilisi was regarded as one of the finest in the Caucasus. His son Prince Pyotr Romanovich Bagration became governor of the Tver region and later governor-general of the Baltic provinces. He was also a metallurgic engineer known for the development of gold cyanidation in Russia. Prince Dmitry Petrovich Bagration was a Russian general who fought in World War I in the Brusilov Offensive and later joined the Red Army.

Bagrationi today

The majority of the Bagrationi family left Georgia after the Red Army took over Tbilisi in 1921.^[12]

Mukhrani branch

Whereas the Bagration-Mukhraneli were a cadet branch of the former Royal House of Kartli, they became the genealogically seniormost line of the Bagrationi family in the early 20th century: yet this elder branch had lost the rule of Kartli by 1724,^[12] retaining that of the Principality of Mukhrani until its annexation by Russia along with Kartli-Kakheti in 1800.^[12]

A member of this branch, Princess Leonida Georgievna Bagration-Moukhransky, married Vladimir Cyrillovich, Grand Duke of Russia, and became the mother of one of the claimants to the Romanov legacy, Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia.^[12]

In 1942 Prince Irakli (Erekle) Bagrationi-Mukhraneli, of the genealogically senior branch of the dynasty, proclaimed himself head of the Royal House of Georgia,^[44] in the absence of evidence that Bagrationis of the Kakhetian branch (which had reigned until 1801) still survived behind the Iron Curtain.^[12] He founded the Union of Georgian Traditionalists in exile. His second wife, Maria Antonietta Pasquini, daughter of Ugo, Count di Costafiorita, bore him a son and heir, but died in childbirth in February 1944.^[12] In August 1946 the widower married Princess María Mercedes de Baviera y Borbón, a granddaughter of King Alfonso XII, and daughter of Don Fernando de Baviera y Borbón, who had renounced his royal rights in Bavaria to become a naturalised infante in Spain.

Beginning in the 1990s, senior members of the Bagrationi-Mukhraneli descendants began re-patriating to Georgia from Spain, ending generations of exile. Irakli's elder son, Prince Georgi Bagrationi-Mukhraneli, was officially recognized by government and church leaders when he brought his father's remains from Spain to rest with those of his ancestors in Svetitskhoveli Cathedral at Mtskheta in 1995,^[45] and took up residence in Tbilisi in 2005, where he died.^[45] His eldest son, Prince Irakli (Erekle), born 1972), moved to Georgia in 1999 and, although previously embraced as a future pretender to the throne by some Georgian monarchists,^[45] has moved back to Spain and deferred his own dynastic claim, since the death of his father in 2008, to that of his younger brother, Prince Davit (born 1976).^[44] Davit took up residence in Tbilisi, obtained Georgian citizenship, claimed the Mukhraneli dynastic titles, and became Head of the Family Council.^[44] The Bagration Mukhraneli is the senior surviving legitimate branch of the Bagration patrilineage,^[12] descending directly from King Constantine II of Georgia. Nonetheless, mitigating the claim of Prince Davit Bagrationi-Mukhraneli to the Georgian throne is the fact that the Mukhraneli branch has not reigned as kings in Georgia since the 18th century,^[45]

Gruzinsky branch

The Bagration-Gruzinsky line, although junior to the Princes of Mukhrani genealogically, reigned over the kingdom of Kakheti, re-united the two realms in the kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti in 1762, and did not lose sovereignty until Russian annexation in 1800.^[46]

Prince Nugzar Petrovich Bagration-Gruzinski (born 1950) is the most senior, known patrilineal descendant of Kartli-Kakheti's last king, George XII and is, as such, head of the Kakhetian branch of the dynasty which, although genealogically junior to the Mukhranelis, has reigned more recently, not having lost the throne of a Georgian kingdom until 1800.^[44][47]

Nugzar is well known in Georgia because he has lived his entire life in Tbilisi, and experienced with other Georgians both the country's subordination to the Soviet regime and its liberation since 1991. A theatrical and cinema director, his father, Prince Petre Bagration-Gruzinski (1920–1984), was a poet, and authored lyrics to the anthem, "Song of Tiflis".^[47]

As Nugzar has no male issue, Prince Evgeny Petrovich Gruzinsky (born 1947), the great-great grandson of Bagrat's younger brother Ilia (1791–1854), who lives in the Russian Federation, is considered to be an heir presumptive within the same primogeniture principle.^[48] Nugzar himself argues in favor of having his eldest daughter, Anna, designated as his heir.^[49]

Imereti branch

Various sources present three different lines as the head of the House of Imereti, potential claimants to the long defunct Kingdom of Imereti, the last of the three Georgian kingdoms to lose its independence in 1810.

The male line descending from the deposed David II of Imereti became extinct in 1978 when Prince Constantine Imeretinski died. He was survived by three daughters of his older brother.^[50]

However, Prince Nugzar Petrovich Bagration-Gruzinski claims that the headship of the Imereti branch had - for one reason or another - transferred in the early 20th century to a cadet branch descending from an older son of Prince Bagrat of Imereti. This branch died out in the male line in 1937 and in the female line in 2009.^[49][51]

The third claim names another branch descending from Prince Bagrat's younger natural son as heir to headship of the house. This line survives in the male line and is headed by Prince David Bagrationi (born 1948) (not to be confused with his younger namesake from the Mukhrani branch).^[52][53]

Union of Bagrationi branches

Prince Nugzar's daughter, Princess Ana, a divorced teacher and journalist with two daughters, married Prince David Bagrationi-Mukhraneli, on 8 February 2009 at the Tbilisi Sameba Cathedral.^[54] The marriage united the Gruzinsky and Mukhrani branches of the Georgian royal family, and drew a crowd of 3,000 spectators, officials, and foreign diplomats, as well as extensive coverage by the Georgian media.^[6]

The dynastic significance of the wedding lay in the fact that, amidst the turmoil in political partisanship that has roiled Georgia since its independence in 1991, Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia publicly called for restoration of the monarchy as a path toward national unity in October 2007.^[55] Although this led some politicians and parties to entertain the notion of a Georgian constitutional monarchy, competition arose among the old dynasty's princes and supporters, as historians and jurists debated which Bagrationi has the strongest hereditary right to a throne that has been vacant for two centuries.^[6]

Although some Georgian monarchists support the Gruzinsky branch's claim, others support that of the re-patriated Mukhraneli branch.^[55] Both branches descend from the medieval kings of Georgia down to Constantine II of Georgia who died in 1505,^[12] and continue in unbroken, legitimate male line into the 21st century.

The bridegroom is the only member of his branch who retains Georgian citizenship and residence since the death of his father, Prince George Bagration-Mukhraneli in 2008.^[46] Aside from his unmarried elder brother Irakli, Prince Davit is the heir male of the Bagrationi family, while the bride's father is the most senior descendant of the last Bagrationi to reign over the united kingdom of eastern Georgia. The marriage between Nugzar Gruzinsky's heiress and the Mukhrani heir may resolve their rivalry for the claim to the throne.^[46]

Prince David and Princess Anna became the parents of a baby boy on September 27, 2011, Prince Giorgi Bagration Bagrationi who, in his person, potentially unites the Mukhraneli and Gruzinsky claims. If no other Bagrationi prince is born in either the Gruzinsky or Mukhraneli branch who is of senior descent by primogeniture, and he survives those now living, Prince Giorgi will become the heir male of the House of Bagrationi and the heir general of George XIII of Georgia.^[56]

Gallery of some Georgian monarchs of Bagrationi dynasty

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  Bagrat III of Georgia

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  David IV of Georgia

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  George III of Georgia

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  Queen Tamar of Georgia

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  George IV of Georgia

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  David VI of Georgia

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  Luarsab II of Kartli

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  Vakhtang VI of Kartli

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  Teimuraz I of Kakheti

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  Solomon I of Imereti

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  George XII

See also

• Line of succession to the former Georgian throne
• Georgian monarchs family tree of Bagrationi dynasty
• Georgian monarchs family tree of Bagrationi dynasty of Kartli
• Georgian monarchs family tree of Bagrationi dynasty of Kakheti
• Georgian monarchs family tree of Bagrationi dynasty of Imereti
• Monarchism in Georgia

Notes

References

Further reading

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