Diasamidze ( ka, დიასამიძე) was a

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noble family known from 1443.

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(1967). ''Studies in Christian Caucasian History'', p. 270.

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. The family held a fiefdom around

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(southern part of the

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), and later acquired the former possessions of the houses of

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and Khursidze. After the fragmentation of the

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, they allied with the kings of

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, namely Luarsab I in 1548, in their effort to prevent

from being lost to the

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. In 1553, the

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, retaliated with the crackdown on the family, deporting several of its members to Iran. Later, between 1576 and 1578, the Diasamidze conspired against the

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, a ruling house of Samtskhe, which eventually surrendered the province to the

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in 1578. These changes forced several members of the family to remove to Kartli and

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at the end of the 16th century. During the 16th and 17th century, the line in Kartli frequently held the offices of Chief Bailiff of

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, Catholicos of Kartli, and abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Cross of Mtskheta; while the line in Kakheti were active at the Bodbe Monastery. In the 1630s, the Diasamidze family, including Catholicos Eudemus I, was involved in a coup attempt against the pro-Iranian king

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. After the failure of the coup, the Diasamidze house was dispossessed of some of their estates and went into decline. Under the Russian rule, the Diasamidze were recognized as

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of the

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according to the decree of 1850.

References

* Гелашвили М. (2017), ''Князья Диасамидзе. К истории рода. Сборник материалов'

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