Jesse of Kartli
| Jesse | |
|---|---|
Vakhtang VI Teimuraz II | |
| Born | 1680 or 1681 |
| Died | 1727 |
| Issue | Alexander |
| House | Bagrationi dynasty |
| Father | Levan of Kartli |
| Mother | Tinatin Avalishvili |
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Jesse (
) from 1714 to 1716 and from 1724 until his death, respectively.Background
He was a son of Prince
tupchi-bashi (general in charge of artillery
) of the Persian armies (1711–1714).
First reign
In March 1714, he was confirmed a
Husayn
with his brother Vakhtang, who had finally agreed to renounce Christianity.
Prison and conversions
Ali fled to
Muslim and was restored as king of Kartli under the name of Mustapha Pasha. His power, however, was largely nominal and the government was actually run by a Turkish commander. Mustapha remained loyal to the Sublime Porte
when the Georgians staged an abortive uprising in 1724. However, the Ottomans abolished the kingdom of Kartli on his death in 1727, imposing their direct administration.
Family
Jesse was married twice, also keeping more than one concubine. He first married, in 1712, Princess Mariam (fl. 1692–1767), daughter of Prince Erasti
Afanasy Bagration, Jesse's brother and a general in the Russian service, was able to secure for her the right to join her relatives in Moscow.[2]
In 1715, Jesse married his second wife, Princess Elene-Begum (1687 – 27 April 1750), a daughter of King
Erekle I of Kakheti
, who eventually retired to a monastery under the name of Elizabeth.
Jesse fathered eleven children:
- Prince ] and was called Ishaq Beg.
- Prince Alexander, as the firstborn son of his father King Jesse of Kartli, was selected as crown prince and heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Kartli by his father and by the Persians. Because of this, from 1743 to 1744, Prince Alexander worked as the governor of Kartli (1743–1744) and he also served as a lieutenant (janisin) of Napoleon Bonaparteas one of the best Russian generals of his time with the phrase "Russia has no good generals. The only exception is Bagration".
- Prince Archil (Abdullah Beg) (1713–1762), born of a concubine, and jealous of his older brother Prince Alexander, he competed against him as a claimant to the kingship of Kartli in the 1740s, but ultimately lost.
- Prince David (fl. 1716–1738), born of Elene.
- Prince Nikoloz, born of Elene.
- Prince Ioane (died 1717), born of Elene.
- Princess Khoreshan (died 1754), born of Elene.
- Princess Anastasia (died 1731), born of Elene.
- Prince Teimuraz (1720–1788), born of Elene, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia as Anton I (1744–1755, 1764–1788).
- Prince Levan (Husayn Beg) (fl. 1748–1758), born of a concubine.
- An anonymous daughter, born of a concubine.
References
- ^ Mikaberidze 2015, p. 362.
- ^ Dumin, S.V., ed. (1996). Дворянские роды Российской империи. Том 3. Князья [Noble families of the Russian Empire. Volume 3: Princes] (in Russian). Moscow: Linkominvest. p. 44.
- ^ (in Russian) Grebelsky, P. Kh., Dumin, S. V., Lapin, V. V. (1993), Дворянские роды Российской империи (Noble families of Russian Empire), vol. 3, p. 50. IPK Vesti
Sources
- Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- Mikaberidze, Alexander (2015). Historical Dictionary of Georgia (2 ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1442241466.
- ^ Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, Vol. 10 Tb., 1986