Giorgi of Kakheti

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About Giorgi of Kakheti

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George_of_Kakheti_(died_1561)

George (Georgian: გიორგი, Giorgi; c. 1529 – 6 April 1561) was a Georgian prince (batonishvili) of the royal house of Kakheti, a son of King Levan of Kakheti by his second wife, a daughter of Kamal Kara-Musel, Shamkhal of Tarki. He was killed in 1561 in a battle with the Safavid Iranian army, fighting on the side of his brother-in-law, King Simon I of Kartli.

George was born of Levan of Kakheti's second marriage to a daughter of Kamal Kara-Musel, the shamkhal of Tarku in Dagestan. He was the eldest of the fourteen children born of this union. According to the 18th-century Georgian historian Prince Vakhushti, Georgewas intended by his father as heir to the throne (Levan had disowned his children by his first marriage to Tinatin Gurieli). In 1561, Simon I of Kartli, ruler of a neighboring Georgian polity, offered Levan—his father-in-law—an alliance against the Safavid Iranian hegemony. Levan, anxious to preserve peace at home, was reluctant, but his son George volunteered with the Kakhetian army for Simon's cause. Arriving at Dzegvi to join the Kartlians, George's troops were attacked and annihilated, on the Easter Day on 6 April 1561, by the Safavid army under Shahverdi Sultan [Shahverdi Sultan belonged to the Ziyadoghlu family, a family which belonged to Qajar tribe, and thus part of the Qizilbash] ... [Shahverdi Sultan, along with king (shah) Tahmasp I's brother-in-law, Abdollah Khan Ustajlu, organized an expedition against Burhan Ali, a nephew of Tahmasp I and pretender to the Shirvanshah crown], a Qajar beylerbey of Karabakh, at the battle of Tsikhedidi. George himself was killed in action.

Family Prince George was married to an anonymous daughter of King Luarsab I of Kartli. He had three sons, George, Vakhtang, and Khosro. Not much is known about them. Khosro was married to the certain Mariam.