Rusudan ( ka, რუსუდანი) was a 12th-13th-century

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princess of the Bagrationi royal family. She was a daughter of King Demetrius I of Georgia, sister of the kings

David V David V ( ka, დავით V, ''Davit' V''; died 1155), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a 7th king of Georgia in 1154 before his death in 1155 He was an elder son of King Demetre I. Fearing that Demetre would make his younger son Giorgi an hei ...

and

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, wife of Manuchihr II of Shirvan, and a paternal aunt of the famous Queen

Tamar of Georgia Tamar the Great ( ka, თამარ მეფე, tr, lit. "King Tamar") ( 1160 – 18 January 1213) reigned as the Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1213, presiding over the apex of the Georgian Golden Age. A member of the Bagrationi dynasty ...

. Around 1143Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia by Donald Rayfield, page 99 she married sultan Masud Temirek, but the marriage only lasted a few years before his death 2 October 1152. She later married Ahmed Sanjar, a

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sultan. When her second husband died, she married Manuchihr II of Shirvan, returned to Georgia and ruled over it as a regent in the first years of Queen Tamar’s reign. She was also a tutor and patron of the

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prince Soslan-David whom Tamar married as her second husband in 1189. Some historians believe that in 1154 Rusudan was also married to Iziaslav II of Kiev,Monomakh branch (Mstyslavychi)
at Izbornik possibly confusing her with her sister Bagrationi. After the death of David Soslan, she went to

Shirvanshah ''Shirvanshah'' ( fa, شروانشاه), also spelled as ''Shīrwān Shāh'' or ''Sharwān Shāh'', was the title of the rulers of Shirvan from the mid-9th century to the early 16th century. The title remained in a single family, the Yazidids, a ...

where she ruled the kingdom along with her husband Manuchihr II of Shirvan. In her eighties, Rusudan withdrew to a monastery c. 1210.

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