Tsitsishvili
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The House of Tsitsishvili (Georgian: ციციშვილი) is a Georgian noble family, with several notable members from the 15th century through the 20th.
History
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The Tsitsishvili family was a continuation of the medieval house of Panaskerteli, known in the province of
In 1442, the king of Georgia,
The Tsitsishvili ranked as fifth among the six "undivided" princely houses of the kingdom of Kartli, a successor state of the already fragmented kingdom of Georgia. They intermarried with the royal dynasty and other nobility of Georgia and held several top hereditary offices at the court. In the 17th century, the house divided into the Upper and Lower branches, which entailed the loss of the family's dynastic status. Upon the Russian annexation of Georgia in 1801, the house of Panaskerteli-Tsitsishvili was received into the princely nobility of the empire under the name of Tsitsianov (Russian: Цицианов).[1] Earlier, in 1724, a branch of this family, also known as Tsitsianov, was established in Russia by the expatriate Georgian nobleman Paata Tsitsishvili.[2]
See also
- Avalishvili, another branch of the Panaskerteli family
References
- ^ Toumanoff, Cyril. "The Fifteenth-Century Bagratids and the Institution of Collegial Sovereignty in Georgia." Traditio 7 (1949–51): 184-185
- ^ (in Russian) Цициановы (Tsitsianov). Russian Biographic Lexicon. Retrieved on 2008-10-10.