Both branches descend in unbroken, legitimate male line from the medieval kings of Georgia down to Constantine II of Georgia who died in 1505.

Bruun in 1876, who suggested that Prester John might be found among the kings of Georgia, which, at the time of Crusades, experienced military resurgence challenging the Muslim power.

* List of the kings of Georgia

However, Mtskheta continued to serve as the coronation and burial place for most kings of Georgia until the end of the kingdom in the 19th century.

By the early 11th century they formed a unified kingdom which emerged as a dominant regional power until it was weakened by the invasions of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur and by internal divisions following the death of George V the Brilliant, the last of the great kings of Georgia.

One of the chief goals of his corrective was to underscore all-Georgian political and cultural unity despite the fact that Georgia was politically divided among competing kings and princes during Vakhushti ’ s lifetime.

With the fragmentation of the kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century, the kings of Georgia were left with Kartli alone, having Tbilisi as their capital.

Located on the crossroads from Northern Caucasus, Kartli ( central Georgia ), Imereti ( western Georgia ) and Lower Rach ’ a, Oni developed into a typical late medieval commercial town and was contested between the kings of Imereti and the princes of Rach ’ a.

In the past, Georgia ’ s kings had not only accepted formal domination by Turkish and Persian emperors, but had occasionally converted to Islam and sojourned at their capitals.

They point out that the Bagration-Mukhranskys were demoted from dynastic status and incorporated into Russia ’ s ordinary nobility by 1833: Though the princess descended patrilineally from a dynasty that had ruled as kings in Armenia and Georgia since the Middle Ages, it had been reduced to the status of Russian nobility for over a century prior to the Russian Revolution.

Leonida's branch of the Bagratids, although genealogically senior, had not been regnant in the male line as kings of Georgia since 1505.

Nonetheless, it was the agnatic seniority of the Mukhranbatoni ’ s descent from Georgia ’ s former kings, rather than the broken treaty, that Vladimir Kirilovich cited in a 1946 decree recognizing the Bagration-Mukhranskys as dynastic for marital purposes, presumably so as to avoid repudiating the Russian Empire ’ s annexation of Georgia.

Christianity was introduced, in the 6th century, by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, and further enforced under the kings of Georgia in the High Middle Ages.

They also had loftier ancestors: Maria Comnena was from the Byzantine imperial Comnenus dynasty, and was descended from the kings of Georgia, Bulgaria, ancient Armenia, Parthia, Persia and Syria.

Though Leonida's dynasty, the Bagrationi, had been kings in Georgia since the early medieval period, Leonida's branch had not been regnant in the male line as Kings of Georgia since 1505 and had been simply Russian nobility since then.

He was interred among his ancestors the kings of Georgia in the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta on January 20, 2008.

Exploiting the situation, Prince Kwirike II of Kakheti ( 939 – 976 ), which is now the easternmost region of Georgia, raided Kartli, hitherto under the authority of the Abkhazian kings, and laid siege to its rock-hewn stronghold Uplistsikhe.

The kings of Georgia set at Kutaisi in western Georgia whence they run all of what had been the Kingdom of Abkhazia and a greater portion of Iberia / Kartli ; Tao / Tayk had been lost to the Byzantines while a Muslim emir remained in Tbilisi and the kings of Kakheti obstinately defended their autonomy in easternmost Georgia.

Varro may have used the consular list with its mistakes, and called the year of the first consuls " 245 ab urbe condita ", accepting the 244-year interval from Dionysius of Halicarnassus for the kings after the foundation of Rome.

The text does however seem to imply, based on the text from the earlier passage of Revelation 16: 14, that the purpose of this gathering of kings in the " place called Armageddon " might be so that these kings could do battle with one another.

In Hebrew the book is called Divrei Hayyamim ( i. e. " the matters the days "), based on the phrases sefer divrei ha-yamim le-malkhei Yehudah and " sefer divrei ha-yamim le-malkhei Israel " (" book of the days of the kings of Judah " and " book of the days of the kings of Israel "), both of which appear repeatedly in the Books of Kings.

It would appear that Bit Yakin was the chief or capital city of the land ; and the king of Chaldea is also called the king of Bit Yakin, just as the kings of Babylonia are regularly styled simply king of Babylon, the capital city.

" The commonwealth introduced a doctrine of religious tolerance called Warsaw Confederation, had its own parliament Sejm ( although elections were restricted to the nobility and elected kings, who were bound to certain contracts Pacta conventa from the beginning of the reign.

The annal for 577 reads " Here Cuthwine and Ceawlin fought against the Britons, and they killed three kings, Coinmail and Condidan and Farinmail, in the place which is called Dyrham, and took three cities: Gloucester and Cirencester and Bath.

In Tamil culture, before Brahmanism and especially during the Cankam period, emperors were known as இற ை யர ் ( Iraiyer ), or " those who spill ", and kings were called க ோ ( Ko ) or க ோ ன ் ( Kon ).

The last two kings of its Pérez Dynasty were called emperors in a contemporary source.

Typically, in the later Vedic age, a Hindu king ( Maharajah ) was only called Samrāṭ after performing the Vedic Rājasūya sacrifice, enabling him by religious tradition to claim superiority over the other kings and princes.

The lands along the southern coastline of the eastern continent, collectively called the Lands of the Summer Sea, include Slavers Bay and the ruins of Valyria, the former home of Westeros's Targaryen kings.

The Kingdom had no permanent capital city and the kings travelled from residence to residence ( called Kaiserpfalz ) to discharge affairs.

While the French kings were struggling against the Plantagenets, the Church called for the Albigensian Crusade.

From the Rajput Kingdom of Sarsatti, he visited Hansi in India, describing it as " among the most beautiful cities, the best constructed and the most populated ; it is surrounded with a strong wall, and its founder is said to be one of the great infidel kings, called Tara ".

Kalhana's metrical chronicle of the kings of Kashmir, called the Rajatarangini, has been pronounced by Professor H. H. Wilson to be the only Sanskrit composition yet discovered to which the appellation " history " can with any propriety be applied.

Because of the aura of holiness attached to his memory, many kings of France were called Louis, especially in the Bourbon dynasty, which directly descended from one of his younger sons.

At the end of the 11th century, the Franks, as they were called at the time, started to penetrate the Iberian Peninsula through the Ways of St. James via Somport and Roncesvalles, settling on various spots of the Kingdoms of Navarre and Aragon enticed by the privileges granted them by the Navarrese kings.

Gascon-speaking communities were called in for trading purposes by Navarrese kings in the early 12th century to the coastal fringe extending from San Sebastian to the Bidasoa, where they settled down.

In Jewish literature, the leaders of the people, kings and princes were called " sons of God " based on the view of the king as the lieutenant of God.

Between 1540 and 1973, the kings of Sweden were officially called king of the Swedes, the Geats and the Wends ( in Latin translation king of Suiones, Goths and Vandals ) ( Sw. Svears, Götes och Wendes Konung ).

The late 9th-and early 10th-century writer Asser informed us that " there was in Mercia in fairly recent time a certain vigorous king called Offa, who terrified all the neighbouring kings and provinces around him, and who had a great dyke built between Wales and Mercia from sea to sea " ( Asser, Life of Alfred, p.. 14 ).

He spoke of a notation made by Snorri Sturluson, a 13th-century historian-mythographer in Ynglinga Saga which relates that " Odin ( a Scandinavian god who was one of the kings ) came to the North with his people from a country called Aser.

Mahabharata also speaks of Bengali kings called Chitrasena and Sanudrasena who were defeated by Bhima.

This assembly ( or ), of the army in times of war, of the people in times of peace, is called by the king and plays a significant role through the acclamation of the kings and in capital trials ; it can be consulted ( without obligation ) for the foreign politics ( declarations of war, treaties ) and for the appointment of high state officials.