Princess Salomé

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 T ...

( ka, სალომე დადიანი; 13 October 1848 – 23 July 1913) was a Georgian princess, the only sister of

Niko Dadiani Nikoloz "Niko" Dadiani ( ka, ნიკოლოზ "ნიკო" დადიანი), or Nikolay Davidovich Dadian-Mingrelsky (; 4 January 1847 – 23 January 1903), was the last Prince of Mingrelia from 1853 to 1867. Of the House of Dadiani ...

, the last

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Mingrelia Mingrelia or Samegrelo ( ka, სამეგრელო, tr ; ) is a historic province in the western part of Georgia, formerly known as Odishi. It is primarily inhabited by the Mingrelians, a subgroup of Georgians. Geography and climate Mingr ...

Early life

Salomé was born on 13 October 1848. She was a daughter of David Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia and Princess Ekaterine Chavchavadze. Her older brother was Prince Niko and her younger brother was Prince Andria. Her paternal grandfather was

Levan V Dadiani Levan V Dadiani ( ka, ლევან V დადიანი; 1793 – 30 July 1846), of the House of Dadiani, was Prince of Mingrelia, in western Georgia, from 1804 to 1846. Succeeding on the death of his father Grigol Dadiani, he ruled—initi ...

. Her maternal grandparents were Princess Salomé Orbeliani and

Alexander Chavchavadze Prince Alexander Chavchavadze ( ka, ალექსანდრე ჭავჭავაძე, ; 1786 – 6 November 1846) was a Georgian poet, public benefactor and military figure. Regarded as the "father of Georgian romanticism", he was a pre- ...

, a noted Georgian general and

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. Her grandmother was a great-granddaughter of

Erekle II Heraclius II, also known as Erekle II ( ka, ერეკლე II) and The Little Kakhetian ( ka, პატარა კახი, link=no ; 7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 Cyril_Toumanoff.html" ;"title="ccording to Cyril Toumanoff">C. Touman ...

of Eastern Georgia. Her aunt, Princess Nino married the Russian playwright, composer and diplomat Aleksandr Griboyedov, while another aunt, Princess Sophie, married Count Alexandr Nikolai, the minister of education of

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.Kveselava, M (2002), ''Anthology of Georgian Poetry'', The Minerva Group, Inc., , p. 181 After her father's death in 1853, her mother assumed the responsibilities of the Prince and was recognized by

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of Mingrelia on behalf of her brother Prince Niko. Nicholas assigned her mother a

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which included her uncles, Prince

Grigol Dadiani Grigol Dadiani ( ka, გრიგოლ დადიანი; 1770 – 23 October 1804), of the House of Dadiani, was Prince of Mingrelia from 1788 to 1804, with intermissions from 1791 to 1794 and in 1802 when his position was filled by his riv ...

and Prince

Konstantin Dadiani Prince Konstantin Dadiani ( ka, კონსტანტინე დადიანი, ; 18 October 1819 – 25 April 1889) was a Georgian nobleman of the House of Dadiani and general of the Russian Imperial Army. During his nearly four-decade l ...

.Office of Policy & Analysis,
Dadiani Dynasty – David Dadiani
'', The Smithsonian Institution in Association with the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, retrieved 27 March 2011

Personal life

She accompanied her mother in her visit to

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in 1868. While in Paris, she married Prince Charles Louis Napoléon ''Achille'' Murat (1847–1895) on 13 May 1868. Prince Achille, a son of

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, was a younger brother of

Joachim, 4th Prince Murat Joachim Joseph Napoléon Murat, 4th Prince Murat (21 July 1834 – 23 October 1901) was a major-general in the French Army and a member of the Bonaparte-Murat family. Early life Joachim Joseph was born at Bordentown, New Jersey, on 21 Ju ...

and a grandson of

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and

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and

Caroline Bonaparte Carolina Maria Annunziata Bonaparte ( French: ''Caroline Marie Annunciata Bonaparte''; 25 March 1782 – 18 May 1839), better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was an Imperial French princess; the seventh child and third daughter of Carlo Buonaparte ...

(the youngest sister of

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). Together, they were the parents of: * Prince Lucien Charles David Napoléon (1870–1933), who married Marie Augustine de Rohan-Chabot on 27 February 1895. She was a daughter of

Alain de Rohan-Chabot ''Alain'' Charles Louis de Rohan-Chabot (1 December 1844 – 6 June 1914), Prince of Léon, 11th Duke of Rohan, deputy of Morbihan. Early life Rohan-Chabot was born on 1 December 1844 in Paris. He was the son of Charles Louis Josselin de Rohan-Cha ...

, 11th

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. Her older sister, Marie-Joséphine de Rohan-Chabot, was the wife of Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord (grandson of

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and nephew of Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord). After the Prince's death in 1933, his widow married French writer and diplomat Count Charles de Chambrun. * Prince Louis Napoléon Achille Charles (1878–1943), major general in the Russian Army, who died in

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in 1943. * Princess Antoinette Caroline Catherine (1879–1954). The couple moved to Algiers after Murat was posted there on a military command, moving back to Paris in 1870, where they remained until the fall of

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. They then moved to a Dadiani family estate in

Samegrelo Mingrelia or Samegrelo ( ka, სამეგრელო, tr ; ) is a historic province in the western part of Georgia, formerly known as Odishi. It is primarily inhabited by the Mingrelians, a subgroup of Georgians. Geography and climate Mingre ...

, grew grapes and established a winery. She returned with her children to Paris after the death of her husband in 1895, dying there in 1913.

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Dadiani Palace. Photo of Salome Dadiani-Murat
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Salome Salome (; , related to , "peace"; ), also known as Salome III, was a Jews, Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias. She was granddaughter of Herod the Great and stepdaughter of Herod Antipas. She is known from the New T ...

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