Mamia II Dadiani ( ka, მამია II დადიანი; died 1414) was a member of the

House of Dadiani The House of Dadiani ( ka, დადიანი ), later known as the House of Dadiani- Chikovani, was a Georgian family of nobles, dukes and princes, and a ruling dynasty of the western Georgian province of Mingrelia. The House of Dadiani Th ...

and ''

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") of

Odishi Odishi ( ka, ოდიში) was a historical district in western Georgia, the core fiefdom of the former Principality of Mingrelia, with which the name "Odishi" was frequently coterminous. Since the early 19th century, this toponym has been su ...

, latter-day

Mingrelia Mingrelia ( ka, სამეგრელო, tr; xmf, სამარგალო, samargalo; ab, Агырны, Agirni) is a historic province in the western part of Georgia, formerly known as Odishi. It is primarily inhabited by the Mingrelian ...

, in western Georgia from 1396 until his death. Mamia was the son of

Vameq I Dadiani Vameq I Dadiani ( ka, ვამეყ I დადიანი; died 1396) was a member of the House of Dadiani and ''eristavi'' ("duke") of Odishi in western Georgia from 1384 until his death. Vameq succeeded on the death of his father, Giorgi II ...

, ''eristavi'' of Odishi, on whose death he succeeded in 1396. During his tenure, 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 ...

was subjected to repeated attacks by the

Turco-Mongol The Turco-Mongol or Turko-Mongol tradition was an ethnocultural synthesis that arose in Asia during the 14th century, among the ruling elites of the Golden Horde and the Chagatai Khanate. The ruling Mongol elites of these Khanates eventually ...

emir Emir (; ar, أمير ' ), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or cerem ...

Timur Timur ; chg, ''Aqsaq Temür'', 'Timur the Lame') or as ''Sahib-i-Qiran'' ( 'Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction'), his epithet. ( chg, ''Temür'', 'Iron'; 9 April 133617–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī ( chg, ''Temür Kür ...

, which devastated the country and shattered its unity. The western Georgian provinces were claimed by scions of the former

kings 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 Triarchy and collapse of the Kingdom of Georgia, diss ...

, but their attempts to bend the Dadiani into submission went in vain. Mamia continued his predecessors' efforts to aggrandize the duchy of Odishi. In 1414, he went to war against the

Abkhazians Abkhazians (russian: Абхазы), or Abkhazs ( ab, Аԥсуаа, Aṕswaа, ), are a Northwest Caucasian languages, Northwest Caucasian ethnic group, mainly living in Abkhazia, a disputed region on the northeastern coast of the Black Sea. A l ...

, but was killed in battle. Mamia had two sons, Liparit I and Vameq II, both the future ''eristavi'' of Odishi. If

Tedo Zhordania Tedo Zhordania ( ka, თედო ჟორდანია; 10 April 1854 – 22 October 1916) was a Georgian historian, philologist, and educator. Born in an Orthodox priest's family in the village of Mokvi, then part of the Russian Empire, Zho ...

's identification, in 1902, of Mamia II with the ''eristavt-eristavi'' ("duke of dukes") and ''mandaturt-ukhutsesi'' ("Lord High Steward") Mamia Dadiani, mentioned in a Georgian inscription on the

omophorion In the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic liturgical tradition, the ''omophorion'' ( grc-gre, ὠμοφόριον, meaning " omethingborne on the shoulders"; Slavonic: омофоръ, ''omofor'') is the distinguishing vestment of a bishop an ...

from the

Mokvi Cathedral Mokvi Cathedral ( ka, მოქვის ეკლესია) is a Georgian Orthodox Cathedral located in Mokvi, in the Ochamchira District of the de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia, internationally recognized to constitute a part of Geo ...

is correct, then his wife was called Elene. Mamia and his wife Ekaterine, formerly called Elene, are also mentioned in a memorial side-note in the 13th-century Gospel from

Vardzia Vardzia ( ka, ვარძია ) is a cave monastery site in southern Georgia, excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank of the Kura River, thirty kilometres from Aspindza. The main period of construction was the sec ...

and, probably, also in a similar text in the 11th-century Gospel from

Urbnisi Urbnisi ( ka, ურბნისი) is a village in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region, in the district of Kareli. Situated on a high left bank of the Mtkvari river, it was an important city in ancient and early medieval Iberia as Georgia was know ...

, in which the unnamed Dadiani's wife Ekaterine, formerly Elene, is referred to as "a daughter of the king". The woman's double-name suggests her becoming a nun. Zhordania's hypothesis was challenged, in 2001, by the historian Bezhan Khorava, who identified the Mamia of these texts as

Mamia III Dadiani Mamia III Dadiani ( ka, მამია III დადიანი; died 31 January 1533) was a member of the House of Dadiani and '' eristavi'' ("duke") of Odishi, that is, Mingrelia, in western Georgia from 1512 until his death. Mamia was a son and ...

, who died in 1533.

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