Qvarqvare I Jaqeli ( ka, ყვარყვარე I ჯაყელი) (1298 – 1361) was a Georgian

prince A prince is a Monarch, male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary title, hereditary, in s ...

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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 ...

'') and ruler of

Samtskhe Meskheti ( ka, მესხეთი) or Samtskhe ( ka, სამცხე) ( Moschia in ancient sources), is a mountainous area in southwestern Georgia. History Ancient tribes known as the Mushki (or Moschi) and Mosiniks (or Mossynoeci) were t ...

during 1334-1361.

Georgian Soviet encyclopedia The ''Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( ka, ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, ქსე) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language, printed in Tbilisi from 1965, the editor in chi ...

, volume 9, page 102, Tbilisi, 1985 His father was Atabeg

Sargis II Jaqeli Sargis II Jaqeli ( ka, სარგის II ჯაყელი) (1271 – 1334) was a Georgian prince (''mtavari'') and ruler of Principality of Samtskhe from 1306 to 1334.Georgian Soviet encyclopedia, volume 9, page 102, Tbilisi, 1985 He was a so ...

, the son of Beka I Jaqeli. In 1334, after his father's death, Qvarqvare became George V The Brilliant's vassal and was appointed as Atabeg of

by King.

References

House of Jaqeli Atabegs of Samtskhe 14th-century people from Georgia (country) 1361 deaths 1298 births {{Georgia-bio-stub