Shaburidze
The Shaburidze family (
Persia and to which belonged the Duchy of Aragvi
from the 13th century to the 15th.
History
According to traditional accounts, the family descended from a high-ranking captive
Shaddadid house, brought in Georgia by King George III in the 1060s. The family, in the person of Mihai Shaburisdze, is first mentioned in a document of 1380.[1]
The Shaburidze were enfeoffed by the Georgian crown with a duchy in the upper
Byzantine emperor, who perished in the fall of Constantinople, subsequently married Giorgi Shaburidze, son of Vameq, Duke of Aragvi, as is revealed by the latter's charter of 1465. By the late 15th century, however, the family had twice lost their duchy, the last time permanently and to the House of Tumanidze, for in his charter of June 28, 1474, granted to the church of the Nativity of Our Lady at Bodorna, Vameq Shaburidze refers to himself as "duke in name only."[2] Their descendants appear as the Baron (Aznauri) Shaburishvili (შაბურიშვილი), and Shaburov (Russian: Шабуров), a branch established in the Russian Empire
in the 18th century.
References
- Allen, W.E.D. (1964), Trivia Historiae Ibericae, 2-4. Bedi Kartlisa, 17-18; 45-46: p. 166.
- Toumanoff, Cyril(1949–51). The Fifteenth-Century Bagratids and the Institution of Collegial Sovereignty in Georgia. Traditio 7: 201-2.