Archil ( ka, არჩილი) (died 6 October 1775) was a

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

royal prince (''

batonishvili ''Batonishvili'' ( ka, ბატონიშვილი) (literally "a child of batoni (lord or sovereign)" in Georgian) is a title for royal princes and princesses who descend from the kings of Georgia from the Bagrationi dynasty and is suffixe ...

'') of the

Bagrationi dynasty The Bagrationi dynasty (; ) is a royal dynasty which reigned in Georgia from the Middle Ages until the early 19th century, being among the oldest extant Christian ruling dynasties in the world. In modern usage, the name of the dynasty is som ...

Imereti Imereti ( Georgian: იმერეთი) is a region of Georgia situated in the central-western part of the republic along the middle and upper reaches of the Rioni River. Imereti is the most populous region in Georgia. It consists of 11 munic ...

. Prince Archil was a younger son of King

Alexander V of Imereti Alexander V ( ka, ალექსანდრე V) (c. 1703/4 – March 1752), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was King of Imereti (western Georgia (country), Georgia) from 1720 his death in 1752, with the exceptions of the periods of 1741 and 1746–1 ...

by his wife, Tamar Abashidze and a brother of King

Solomon I of Imereti Solomon I the Great, ( ka, სოლომონ I დიდი) (1735 – April 23, 1784), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was King of Imereti (western Georgia) from 1752 to 1765 and again from 1767 until his death in 1784. Solomon was a son of Ale ...

. From 1769 to 1770, he commanded an Imeretian force against the Mingrelians around

Khoni Khoni ( ka, ხონი) is a town in the Western Georgian region (mkhare) of Imereti with the population of 8987 (2014 Georgia census). It is situated on the left bank of the Tskhenistkali River in the north-west of Imereti, close to the bord ...

and, in July 1775, raided Atskuri in the

Pashalik of Akhaltsikhe The Eyalet of Childir ( ota, ایالت ایالت چلدر; Eyālet-i Çıldır) or AkhalzikOther variants of this name include Akalzike (from ) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire in the Southwestern Caucasus. The area of the former Çıldır E ...

. In 1772 Archil married

Princess Elene of Georgia Elene ( ka, ელენე; 1753 – 17 June 1786) was a Georgian princess royal (''batonishvili''), a daughter of Heraclius II, King of Kartli and Kakheti. She was the mother of Solomon II of Imereti, the last king to have reigned in the Geor ...

, a daughter of King

Heraclius II of Georgia Heraclius II ( ka, ერეკლე II), also known as Erekle II and The Little Kakhetian ( ka, პატარა კახი ) (7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 C. ToumanoffHitchins, KeithHeraclius II. ''Encyclopædia Iranica Online edit ...

. The marriage was political, forced upon Elene, who was in love with Prince

Zakaria Andronikashvili Zakariya (also transliterated as Zakaria, Zakariyya, Zekariya, Zakaryah etc, ar, زَكَرِيَّاء or زَكَرِيَّا) is a masculine given name, the Arabic form of Zechariah which is of Hebrew origin, meaning "God has remembered".

. Archil died at Kaskhi in 1775.

Children

Archil and Elene had three children: Barbare, David, and Mariam. By an unknown concubine, Archil also had a natural son, Mamuka. *Prince Mamuka (died 1840). He took part in an Imeretian revolt against the Russian rule in 1819 and then fled to Turkey. *Princess Barbare Bagration of Imereti (1771–1815), who was married to Prince David Tsulukidze. *Prince

David David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

(1772–1815), the last King of Imereti under the name of Solomon II (1789–1810). *Princess Mariam (1775–1854). She married, first, in 1795, Prince Melkisedek (Malkhaz) Andronikashvili (1773–1822) and had a son, Ivane, the future general in the Russian service. Mariam's second husband was Prince Leon Aleksandrovich Dadiani (1774–1847); they had no children.

References

1775 deaths Georgian princes Bagrationi dynasty of the Kingdom of Imereti Year of birth unknown {{Georgia-royal-stub