Prince Archil of Imereti

Archil (Georgian: არჩილი) (died 6 October 1775) was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty of Imereti.[1]

Prince Archil was a younger son of King Alexander V of Imereti by his wife, Tamar Abashidze and a brother of King Solomon I of Imereti. From 1769 to 1770, he commanded an Imeretian force against the Mingrelians around Khoni and, in July 1775, raided Atskuri in the Pashalik of Akhaltsikhe. In 1772 Archil married Princess Elene of Georgia, a daughter of King Heraclius II of Georgia.[1] The marriage was political, forced upon Elene, who was in love with Prince Zakaria Andronikashvili. Archil died at Kaskhi in 1775.[2]

Children

Archil and Elene had three children: Barbare, David, and Mariam. By an unknown concubine, Archil also had a natural son, Mamuka.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dumin, S.V., ed. (1996). Дворянские роды Российской империи. Том 3. Князья [Noble families of the Russian Empire. Volume 3: Princes] (in Russian). Moscow: Linkominvest. p. 90.
  2. Tukhashvili, Lovard (1975). "ზაქარია ანდრონიკაშვილი [Zakaria Andronikashvili]" [Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia]. ქართული საბჭოთა ენცილოპედია (in Georgian). 1. Tbilisi. p. 450.
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