- Babadishvili
Babadishvili ( _ka. ბაბადიშვილი; also Babadishi, ბაბადიში) is a Georgian noble family claimed to have sprung off the royal
Bagrationi dynasty ofKakheti in the 17th century.Prince
Ioann of Georgia (1768-1830) reports that the Babadishvili descend from the Kakhetian ruler Imām Qulī Khān (1678-1722),Bagrationi, Ioane (1768-1830). [http://www.geogen.ge/indexen.php?id_menu=12&id_menu_up=&lang=en&id_let=35&abc=1 Babadishvili (Princes of Kakheti)] . "The Brief Description of the Georgian Noble Houses". Retrieved onJanuary 6 ,2008 .] “corrected” by some modern genealogists to Joseph, a supposed grandson ofTeimuraz I of Kakheti (1589-1663). ProfessorCyril Toumanoff considers the family to be related to the Beburishvili (ბებურიშვილი), possible descendants of the medieval house ofDonauri [Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). "Studies in Christian Caucasian History", p. 269.Georgetown University Press .]The family were entitled as the princes (
tavadi ) of the third rank in Georgia, and confirmed asknyaz of theRussian Empire in 1850. [ru icon [http://www.rulex.ru/01020419.htm Бабадышевы] . Russian Biographic Lexicon. Retrieved onJanuary 6 ,2008 .]References
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