- Bagration-Davitashvili
Bagration-Davitashvili ( _ka. ბაგრატიონ-დავითაშვილი) is a Georgian family, a cadet branch of the
Kakheti an line of theBagrationi royal dynasty. Their ancestry traces back to the Kaketian prince Davit whose father, Demetre, was blinded by his brother Giorgi after the latter killed his reigning fatherAlexander I of Kakheti , and usurped the crown in 1511. [ [http://4dw.net/royalark/Georgia/kakhet.htm Royal Ark: Georgia. The Bagration Dynasty: Kakheti] . Accessed onApril 3 ,2007 .] The Bagration-Davitashvili fled Kakheti to the neighboring Georgian kingdom ofKartli where they persisted as a princely family. After the annexation of Georgia byImperial Russia , the family, in the person of Solomon Bagration-Davitashvili, was confirmed in princely dignity ( _ru. Багратионы-Давыдовы, Bagration-Davidov) onDecember 21 ,1849 . [ [http://4dw.net/royalark/Georgia/davit.htm Royal Ark: Georgia. The Bagration Dynasty: Kakheti – Davitashvili] . Accessed onApril 3 ,2007 .]References
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