Gurgenidze (noble family)

Gurgenidze ( _ka. გურგენიძე) was a Georgian noble family known from the 18th century in the province of Kakheti.

The earliest line of the Gurgenidze, lords of Shildi, had been extinct by 1744 when the king Erekle II rewarded the loyal service of a petty noble Solomon Mordlisdze by granting him the surname, titles and estates of the extinct house of Gurgenidze. This Solomon had accompanied the then-crown prince Erekle in an Indian campaign under the Persian banners (1738-1740).Bagrationi, Ioane (1768-1830). [http://www.geogen.ge/indexen.php?id_menu=12&id_menu_up=2&lang=en&id_let=40&abc=1 Gurgenidze (Princes of Kakheti)] . "The Brief Description of the Georgian Noble Houses". Retrieved on December 16, 2007.]

The family features among the Georgian nobility in a special document attached to the Russo-Georgian Treaty of Georgievsk of 1783. After Georgia was annexed by the Russian Empire, the Gurgenidze were confirmed in their princely title of knyaz in 1850. [Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). "Studies in Christian Caucasian History", p. 271. Georgetown University Press.]

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