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The sovereigns succeeding David IV had great respect for him and his actions allowed him to maintain an international reputation for several decades: for example, while King Bagrat V (r. 1360–1395) was held captive by Timur, he offered the Turco-Mongol emir a coat of mail of precious work having belonged to David the Builder, following which ...
King of Georgia b.1259–d.1289 r.1270–1289: Vakhtang II King of Georgia r.1289–1292: Constantine I King of Imereti r.1293–1327: Michael King of Imereti r.1327–1329: Kayqubad II Sultan of Rûm r.1249–1257: Prince Lasha: Prince Manuel: Princess Rusudan: Prince Baidu: Prince Iadgar: David VIII King of Georgia b.1273–d.1311 r.1293 ...
David bore the name of the biblical king-prophet, whose 78th descendant he was claimed to be. [1] Through his father, David had ancestors among the most prominent dynasties of the Caucasus. David's grandfather was King Bagrat IV of Georgia and his grandmother was an Alan princess Borena. Besides he had in-law relations in Constantinople.
The family's alleged Hebrew provenance was utilized and elaborated by the Georgian Bagratids to claim the descent from the divinely appointed model biblical king David, himself a descendant, in an unbroken line, of Adam and the ancestor of Jesus Christ, at the same time obscuring the dynasty's true origin and blood-ties with Armenian cousins.
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King David IV of Georgia. 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. [1]
David IV of Georgia, a fresco from the Shio-Mgvime monastery Expansion of Kingdom of Georgia under David IV's reign. George II ceded the crown to his 16-year-old son David IV in 1089. Under the tutelage of his court minister, George of Chqondidi, David IV suppressed the feudal lords and centralized the power. In 1089–1100, he organized ...
Abuleti was a loyal nobleman from Kakheti, [1] the founder of the Abuletisdze family, and a commander under the Georgian King David IV.. In 1110, Abuleti, alongside George of Chqondidi, Theodore, and Ivane I Orbeli, launched a successful retaliation against the Seljuk settlement, recapturing the city of Samshvilde, which was subsequently incorporated into the royal dominions without any ...