George VI of Georgia

Giorgi VI redirects here. It can also refer to George VI of Imereti.

Giorgi VI the Minor (Georgian: გიორგი VI მცირე Giorgi VI Mtsire) (died 1313), from the Bagrationi dynasty was King of Georgia in 1311–1313.

Son of King David VIII, he was appointed as King of Georgia (actually, only the eastern part of the country) by the Il-khan Öljeitü upon the death of his father in 1311. He reigned under the regency of his uncle Giorgi V and died underage in 1313.

Ancestry

Family of George VI of Georgia

16. George IV of Georgia               8. David VII of Georgia                       4. Demetre II of Georgia                             18. Kakhaber V Kakhaberidze               9. Gvantsa Kakhaberidze                       2. David VIII of Georgia                                   20. Alexios I of Trebizond               10. Manuel I of Trebizond                       21. Theodora Axouchina               5. Theodora Megale Komnena                             11. Irene Syrikaina                       1. Giorgi VI of Georgia                                         Grigol Surameli               12. Bega II Surameli                       6. Hamada Surameli                             3. N. daughter

References

• Cyrille Toumanoff, Les dynasties de la Caucasie chrétienne de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle : Tables généalogiques et chronologiques, Rome, 1990, p. 138.

Preceded by David VIII

King of Georgia 1311–1313

Succeeded by George V