Prince ''Don'' Bagrat de Bagration y de Baviera, also Prince Bagrat Bagrationi-Mukhraneli'' and ''Prince Bagrat Bagration-Moukhransky (12 January 1949 – 20 March 2017) was a member of the
Bagration dynasty
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which once ruled the
Kingdom of Georgia and a relative of the
royal family of Spain
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[ Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke’s Royal Families of the World: ''Volume II''. Burke's Peerage. 1980. pp. 62, 65. ]
Background
He was born in
Madrid, Spain on 12 January 1949 and named ''Bagrat Juan María de Fátima de Todos los Santos'', the third child of
Prince Irakli Bagration-Mukhrani (1909-1977) by his third wife,
Infanta ''Doña'' María de las Mercedes de Baviera y Borbón (1911-1953),
a niece of King
Alphonso XIII of Spain
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[ Almanach de Gotha, ''Bayern (Bavière)'', (Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1942), p. 22, 46, (French).] His godparents were
''Don'' Juan and
Princess ''Doña'' Mercedes de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Orléans, Count and Countess of Barcelona. His maternal great-grandfather was
King Alfonso XII.
Prince Jorge de Bagration, a Spanish race car driver and pretender to the throne of Georgia, was his elder half brother.
Although born in
Tbilisi, his father left Georgia after completing his studies there, lived briefly in Italy and France,
but acquired Spanish citizenship in 1947.
[Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser III. "Bagration-Muchransky". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1955, pp. 247, 249. (German).] His mother had been born in Madrid, and although part of her youth was spent in exile in the
Basses Pyrenees
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of France,
Bagrat was raised, along with Jorge and his elder sister Princess Mariam (born 1947), by his widowed father in Madrid and at the ''Palacio de Santillana del Mar'' in
Santander.
[
He was a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (Spanish association, No. 21658 as decreed in the Magisterial Palace of Rome on 31 January 1980).
]
Life
Bagrat married ''Doña'' María del Carmen de Ulloa y Suelves (b. 6 May 1953) on 12 November 1976 at San Jerónimo el Real in Madrid. María del Carmen was the daughter of Gonzalo María de Ulloa y Ramírez de Haro, Marqués de Castro-Serna, Count de Adanero and of Doña María Josefa de Suelves y Ponsich.[de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Le Petit Gotha. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery. Paris. 2002. pp. 482-485. (French) ]
* H.R.H Prince Juan Jorge Bagration-Mukhransky, born on 18 August 1977 in Madrid; married Florianne del Rio Thorn in 2003, the couple divorced without descendants in 2008. Juan remarried, in 2014, the Georgian model H.R.H Princess Kristine Bagration-Mukhransky (''née'' Dzidziguri)
Ancestors
References
External links
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1949 births
2017 deaths
House of Mukhrani
Grandees of Spain
Knights of Malta