Giorgi I Gurieli ( ka, გიორგი I გურიელი; died 1512), of the

House of Gurieli The House of Gurieli () was a Georgian princely (''mtavari'') family and a ruling dynasty (dukes) of the southwestern Georgian province of Guria, which was autonomous and later, for a few centuries, independent. A few ducal rulers of the dynasty ...

, was ''

eristavi ''Eristavi'' (; literally, "head of the nation") was a Georgian feudal office, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine ''strategos'' and normally translated into English as "prince" or less commonly as "duke". In the Georgian aristocratic hierarchy, i ...

'' ("duke") and then ''

mtavari ''Mtavari'' ( ka, მთავარი) was a feudal title in Georgia usually translated into English as Prince or Duke. The earliest instances of the use of ''mtavari'' are in the early Georgian hagiographic texts dated to the 5th century. From ...

'' ("prince") of

Guria Guria ( ka, გურია) is a region (''mkhare'') in Georgia, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea. The region has a population of 113,000 (2016), with Ozurgeti as the regional capital. Geography ...

from 1483 until his death in 1512. Giorgi I Gurieli was a son of

Kakhaber II Gurieli Kakhaber II Gurieli ( ka, კახაბერ II გურიელი; died 1483), of the House of Gurieli, was '' eristavi'' ("duke") of Guria from c. 1469 until his death in 1483. Kakhaber Gurieli was a son and successor of Mamia Gurieli and, ...

by his wife Anna and his successor as the ruler of Guria, a semi-independent polity which emerged in the process of dissolution of the

Kingdom of Georgia The Kingdom of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს სამეფო, tr), also known as the Georgian Empire, was a medieval Eurasian monarchy that was founded in circa 1008 AD. It reached its Golden Age of political and economic ...

, finalized in 1491. As a result, the ruler of Guria became a prince-regnant (''mtavari''), formally a vassal of the

King of Imereti The Kingdom of Imereti ( ka, იმერეთის სამეფო, tr) was a Georgian monarchy established in 1455 by a member of the house of Bagrationi when the Kingdom of Georgia was dissolved into rival kingdoms. Before that time, Im ...

. Giorgi Gurieli remained more or less loyal to his royal suzerains, Alexander II and Bagrat III, and held the rank of Grand Master of the Household (''msakhurt-ukhutsesi'') at the court of Imereti. Around 1511, he lost to Mzechabuk Jaqeli,

Prince of Samtskhe The Samtskhe-Saatabago or Samtskhe Atabegate ( ka, სამცხე-საათაბაგო), also called the Principality of Samtskhe (სამცხის სამთავრო), was a Georgian feudal principality in Zemo Kartli, rul ...

, the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Roma ...

provinces of

Adjara Adjara ( ka, აჭარა ''Ach’ara'' ) or Achara, officially known as the Autonomous Republic of Adjara ( ka, აჭარის ავტონომიური რესპუბლიკა ''Ach’aris Avt’onomiuri Resp’ublik’a'' ...

and Chaneti, which his father had gained from Mzechabuk's predecessor. Mzechabuk's charter, granting the rights over the

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to the see of Atskuri, mentions territorial acquisition from the Gurieli. Giorgi Gurieli died in 1512. He was succeeded, with the blessing of King Bagrat III, by his son Mamia I.

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