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The nobility of Georgia was the social and legal grouping of individuals and families with a special status in the former Kingdom of Georgia (along with its successor states). The Georgian nobility has always been split across two main groups: the princely and ducal Houses, which were in the minority, and the untitled noble Houses which were ...
This is the alphabetic list of the upper class noble houses of Georgia. They were entitled as tavadi ( Georgian : თავადი ), roughly translated in English as " prince " and in Russian as " knyaz ", a title which was eventually conferred upon most of these families under the Imperial Russian rule (1801–1917).
Pages in category "Noble families of Georgia (country)" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
By virtue of their power and the royal weakness, princes and nobles were able to break with their sovereign and became sovereigns in their own provinces. The dependent nobility, the aznauri, split into three groups: vassals of the king, vassals of the tavadi, and vassals of the catholicoi; they stood between the peasantry and the great nobility.
Solomon Lionidze, Chancellor of Georgia The family originated from the province of Kakheti and were elevated to the princely rank by King Heraclius II of Georgia in the mid-18th century. They were confirmed as the princes Lionidaev in Imperial Russia according to the decrees of 1825 and 1850.
George V the Brilliant (Georgian: გიორგი V ბრწყინვალე, romanized: giorgi V brts'q'invale; also translated as the Illustrious, or Magnificent; 1286–1346) of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the king of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1299 to 1302 and again from 1314 until his death in 1346.
The first data about the family dates back to 1046 AD. Presumably, the Dadiani descended from a certain Dadi, of the House of Vardanisdze.Appointed as hereditary eristavi (dukes) of Odishi in reward for their military services, the family had become the most powerful feudal house in western Georgia by the 1280's.
The House of Chikovani (Georgian: ჩიქოვანი; sometimes spelled as Chicovani) is a line of Georgian nobility, once a princely house in monarchical Georgia. Originally, the Dukes of Chikovani ruled the province of Lechkhumi in northwestern Georgia.