Babadishvili
Georgian noble family
The House of Babadishvili (Georgian: ბაბადიშვილი; also Babadishi, ბაბადიში) is a Georgian noble family claimed to have sprung off the royal Bagrationi dynasty of Kakheti in the 17th century.
History
Prince Ioane of Georgia (1768–1830) reports that the Babadishvili descend from the Kakhetian ruler David II of Kakheti (Imam Quli Khan; 1678–1722), “corrected” by some modern genealogists to Joseph, a supposed grandson of King Teimuraz I (1589–1663). Professor Cyril Toumanoff considers the family to be related to the Beburishvili (ბებურიშვილი), possible descendants of the medieval House of Donauri.
Titles
The family were entitled as the princes (tavadi) of the third rank in Georgia, and later incorporated into the Russian nobility and confirmed the title of Knyaz of the Russian Empire in 1850.
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