* date unknown – Bagrat I of Imereti, King of Georgia

* Bagrat I of Iberia

* Bagrat I Kuropalates ( 826-876 ), co-rulers: Adarnase ( 830-c. 870 ) and Guaram Mampali ( d. 882 )

* Bagrat I ( 889-900 )

Giorgi I was married twice – first to the Armenian princess Mariam of Vaspurakan with whom he had a son called Bagrat and daughters: Guarandukht, Marta, and Kata ; and second to Alde of Alania, who gave birth to a son, Demetre.

This formidable acquisition brought Bagrat ’ s realm to the neighbourhood of the Shaddadid emirate of Arran in what is now Azerbaijan, whose ruler al-Fadl I b. Muhammad ( 986 – 1031 ) raided Kakheti following its incorporation into Georgia.

Bagrat drove back this incursion and, in alliance with the Armenian king Gagik I ( 989 – 1020 ), successfully campaigned against the Shaddadid city of Shamkir, levying a tribute upon it.

He considered David Soslan a descendant of George I of Georgia ( 1014 – 1027 ) and his Alan wife Alde who were the parents of Demetrius ( Demetre ), an unfortunate pretender to the Georgian crown whose son, David, was forced by Bagrat IV of Georgia to flee to Alania.

After George I died in 1027, Bagrat, aged eight, succeeded to the throne.

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* Bagrat I ( 1329 – 1330 )

* Mariam of Vaspurakan, first wife of King George I of Georgia and regent for her son, Bagrat IV, in the 11th century

* 1386 – Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, taking King Bagrat V of Georgia captive.

Tamar owned her accomplishments most immediately to the reforms of her great-grandfather David IV ( r. 1089 – 1125 ) and, more remotely, to the unifying efforts of David III and Bagrat III who became architects of a political unity of Georgian kingdoms and principalities in the opening decade of the 11th century.

His descendant Bagrat III ( 975-1014 ), brought the various principalities together to form a united Georgian state.

The Bichvinta Cathedral is one of oldest monuments of the Georgian Christian architecture constructed by the Georgian King Bagrat III of the Bagrationi Royal House in the late 10th century.

It was under Bagrat III, that Lazica unified with the eastern Georgian lands of Iberia-Kartli to form a united Kingdom of Georgia.

The monastery was built in the 11th century, during the reign of King Bagrat IV by the Georgian Giorgi-Prokhore of Shavsheti.

With the strong intention to unite all Georgian lands, he adopted Prince Bagrat ( the future king Bagrat III ), a grandchild of Bagrat Regueni, also being an Abkhazian heir apparent.

David installed him as a residing prince in Kartli ( 975 ) and as king of Abkhazia ( 978 ), and helped Bagrat ’ s natural father Gurgen to be crowned as King of Kings of the Kartvelians on the death of Bagrat the Simple ( 994 ), thus making Bagrat a ruler of the two and a heir apparent of another two Georgian states.

Despite this reverse, Bagrat was able to become the first ruler of the unified Georgian kingdom ( officially called the Kingdom of the Georgians and Abkhazians ) on his father ’ s death in 1008.

Giorgi was born in 998 or, according to a later version of the Georgian chronicles, in 1002, to King Bagrat III.

Bagrat III () ( c. 960 – 7 May 1014 ), of the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty, was King of the Abkhazians from 978 on ( as Bagrat II ) and King of Georgia from 1008 on.

This was done by the emperor, as the Georgian chronicles relate, to turn Gurgen against Bagrat, but he seriously miscalculated:

Bedia Cup of King Bagrat III of Georgia is an important example of Georgian religious art.

After he had secured his patrimony, Bagrat proceeded to press a claim to the easternmost Georgian principality of Kakheti and annexed it in or around 1010, after two years of fighting and aggressive diplomacy.

Bagrat ’ s reign, a period of uttermost importance in the history of Georgia, brought about the final victory of the Georgian Bagratids in the centuries-long power struggles.

Bagrat was also known as a great promoter of Georgian Orthodox culture.

The area then was contested between his successor, David ( 976-1010 ), and the Georgian king Bagrat III who sought to bring all Georgian lands into a single monarchy.

A feud between Bagrat IV and his former general, Liparit Baghvashi, a powerful duke of Kldekari, erupted during their campaign against the Georgian city of Tbilisi ( 1037 – 1040 ), which was ruled by Arab emirs.

On 24 November 1072, Bagrat the IV died and George the II came to the throne.

She died on December 4, 1683, and was survived by a son Bagrat and a daughter Maryam.

In 1008, Gurgen died, and Bagrat succeeded him as King of Kings of the Georgians, becoming thus the first king of a unified realm of Abkhazia and Kartli ( in their broadest sense these two included Abkhazia proper / Abasgia, Egrisi / Samegrelo, Imereti, Svaneti, Racha-Lechkhumi, Guria, Ajaria, Kartli proper, Hither Tao, Klarjeti, Shavsheti, Meskheti, and Javakheti ) what was to be henceforth known as Sakartvelo – " all-Georgia ".

Bagrat III died in 1014 in the Panaskerti Castle in Tao.

Bagrat IV died the following year, on 24 November 1072, and was buried at the Chkondidi Monastery.

He died, to be succeeded by his son, Bagrat V the Great in 1360.

* Bagrat III ( d. 1014 ), king of Abkhazians and Georgians

The epithet aghmashenebeli ( აღმაშენებელი ), which is translated as " the Builder " ( in the sense of " built completely "), " the Rebuilder ", or " the Restorer ", first appears as the sobriquet of David in the charter issued in the name of " King of Kings Bagrat " in 1452 and becomes firmly affixed to him in the works of the 17th-and 18th-century historians such as Parsadan Gorgijanidze, Beri Egnatashvili and Prince Vakhushti.

In 958, Bagrat II Regueni, " the Simple " ( 958 – 994 ) was crowned King of the Georgians and inherited Northern Tao ( also known as Amier-Tao ), while David III ( 961 – 1001 ) received a title of Kuropalates and got Southern Tao ( also known as Imier-Tao ) in possession.

Around the same year, the easternmost provinces of Kakheti and Hereti, not easily acquired by Bagrat, staged a revolt and reinstated their own government under Kvirike III ( 1010 / 1014 – 1029 ), who also incorporated a portion of the neighbouring Arran ( Ran ), allowing him to claim the title of King of the Kakhetians and Ranians.

Being still in his minority, Bagrat was adopted by his childless kinsman David III Kuropalates ( 990 – 1000 ), presiding prince of Tao / Tayk and the most powerful ruler in the Caucasus.

Bagrat and Gurgen, this latter now reigning as King of Kings of the Georgians in parts of the southwestern Kartlian lands ( 994 – 1008 ), met with Basil but, unable to prevent the annexation of David ’ s realm, were forced to recognize the new borders.

George ’ s childhood coincided with the civil war between his father, Bagrat IV ( r. 1027 – 1072 ), and the rebellious Georgian feudal lord Liparit, who succeeded in temporary driving Bagrat into the Byzantine Empire, crowned George as king at the Ruisi Cathedral between 1050 and 1053, under the regency of Bagrat's sister Gurandukht.