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Finally the Caucasus gets a little due attention

Actually Erekle 2 of Georgia did not break pact with russia. It was russians who abandoned him at Aspindza war during the battle and Erekle 2 with his small army still defeated the osmans. Please gather the facts correctly.

A member of this family was a General of the Russian Imperial Army during the Napoleonic Wars he was Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration he was one of Napoleon’s most dangerous opponents during the Russian campaign.

Ancient Georgia then known as Colchis to the Greeks is where Jason went to find the Golden Fleece which was protected by a huge dragon and he fell in love with the sorceress/princess Medea. The "golden fleece" thing is quite interesting as even nowadays in Georgia prospectors use a sheep skin to pan for alluvial gold in the rivers and the fleece becomes "golden" because of the small particles of gold trapped in it.

Georgia did not break the giorgevsky tractat first. That is a lie and liable

The Danish statue does not depict king Gorm the Old, but Ogier the Dane (Holger Danske).

One of the things I appreciate about Georgia is how much the medieval history is still widely known and celebrated, even as the country still lives in the 21st century and builds a forward-facing future for itself.

It is so wonderful that such a small country survived countless huge empires inculding mongols and byzantia😮😮❤ actually i think the georgian democracy and civil rights were as high level as ancient greeks❤❤ death penalty was prohibited in USA in 20th century but in Georgia (საქართველო) in 12th century❤❤❤❤ let this country get its respect after so many centuries❤❤❤❤

Thank you usefulcharts for reading my comment and doing video about georgian familly tree. You really deserve more than you have already by this point.☺️

Very happy to finally see this chart made, looks great

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! I love Georgian history and especially the Bagrationi

Wow lots of wrong information here. Russian General in Georgia who was supposed to helped us literally run away from battle and left Erekle II alone. Russians break the pact and later occupied whole Georgia by force. "Russia has no good generals. The exception is Bagration" - Napoleon about Petre (Piotr) Bagration.

Probably the best known modern-day member of the Georgian royal family was Prince Guéorgui Vassilievitch Matchabelli (1885-1935). A native of Tiflis, in 1921, he and his Italian-born wife settled in the United States. In 1926, they established the Prince Matchabelli Perfume Company. The prince, an amateur chemist, blended the company's perfumes. Among its best known brands was Wind Song (later heavily advertised on television). Other favorites were Ave Maria and Princess Norina. All the perfumes came in crown-shaped bottles.

Byzantines didn't really put Ashot I as the king, for around 150 years Georgia had dynastic wars going on and the Bagrationi dynasty came out victorious, the only involvement from the Byzantines was some support of different candidates and the title of "Curopalates" that they gave out, during this time there was no King of Georgia, but there were Georgian Kings, that's how we call the period between 500s to 700s To explain as shortly as possible, between 300 BC and 600s Georgia was divided into 2 kingdoms, the Kingdom of Colchis (Later Lazica) in the West and the Kingdom of Iberia in the East and South, there were a few Georgian dynasties that ruled these regions and they had very close relations, every time any outsider was attacking both Colchis and Iberia would unite, after around late 400s to early 500s Chosroid dynasty of Iberia got split and so did the Kingdom of Iberia's territory as Iberia itself in East Georgia, and Tao-Klarjeti region in the South. After that, Georgia was always divided into these 3 parts with significant nobilities ruling these regions, even during the Kingdom of Georgia. At the end of the 500s the ruler of Tao-Klarjeti and younger brother to the ruler of Iberia Guaram I was the man who is considered in Georgia as the founding father of the Bagrationi dynasty, he started the "game of thrones" and the battle between royal dynasties and just noble dynasties, both Anchabadze and Bagrationi dynasties were born from these dynastic wars. The Chosroid dynasty died in the process of these dynastic wars, but it transformed into the Bagrationi dynasty, and after that, the video explains everything correctly. I just explain this because of one particular reason, some propaganda machine from one of today's empires that wants to tear Georgia apart tries to make it seem that Anchabadze weren't Georgians, they were influenced by the Byzantines way more than the Iberians, but they were Georgians, every proof that there exists including manuscripts, including churches and writings on them all are in Georgian, and from every century, from the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, especially from the 10th to the 12th centuries as during the "Golden Age" churches were built everywhere. This is important to mention for certain reasons. Also, Hearclius didn't leave any battles, Russia abandoned their own plans, it was the Russians that broke the Treaty of Georgievsk and multiple times, I don't know where did you get that info from, I have read Catherine's letter to her general in Georgia from Russian archives, how they decide to break the agreement, where did you get info that Heraclius broke it? That's a huge false information.

Despite King Heraclius II of Georgia's efforts to maintain his country's commitments and not break any agreements, the Russian Kingdom did not provide the expected support during his conflict with the Ottomans. Instead, Russia stood by as Heraclius II and the Georgian army faced the Ottoman forces alone. This situation underscores the complex and often fraught relationship between Georgia and Russia, which has been characterized by a series of conflicts and political maneuverings over the years.

love how i always learn something new seeing usefulcharts videos

Been waiting for you to do Georgia, I hope Armenia is next as that region has such an amazing history!

საქართველო! Love my Kartvelians in the United States

Your channel always makes the best charts ❤

You mentioned this is one of the last major royal dynasties missing from the channel. I would like to see you also cover in the future: - Belgian Kings - Armenian Kings - Grand-Dukes of Luxembourg - Bulgarian Empire - Kingdom of Greece (modern) - Hunnic Empire - Kingdom of Kongo - Songhai Empire - Ghana Empire - Maurya Empire - Kingdom of Cambodia (both modern and Khmer Empire) - Majapahit Empire - Srivijaya Empire - Sultanate of Brunei - Tui tonga Empire - Xiongnu Empire - Tibetan Empire - Mamluk Sultanate - Gokturks - Sultanate of Oman

That Alexander must've wanted to imitate Charlemagne with how bad his succession plan was.

Fun fact, Pyotr Bagrationi fough against Napoleon in Austerlitz and Niko Bagrationi from the mukhrani branch fought in the second boer war.

As a human being, I've never despised another human being like Timor the Lame..

I've been watching you from Georgia for 2 years! Thank you for the video !

12:16 not true. From the correspondence of Totleben and Ekaterina it is clear that Heraclius repeatedly asked for the military assistance, which he would never get. Totleben betrayed Georgian king on battlefield by moving his army to capture Tbilisi while Heraclius was fighting Turks. It was then when Georgians left the battlefield to defend their own capital.

Personally i think the kings of kartli and the kings of iberia shoulve been the same color bcuz apparently the region called kartli was historically known as iberia.

Georgian history and culture are fascinating. I have loved Tamar from the start.

Georgia is super cool.

When they have faced 3 rulers with "great" in their title, its safe to say they are old

YES.... I HAVE WANTED TO SEE A VIDEO ON THE GEORGIAN MONARCHS FOR SO LONG.... WOOO!

Glad you covered Georgia as well

Love this! More caucasus content please! There's a lot of potential for videos!

12:10 Russian forces never helped. All the battles happened without their help during this “agreement”. Erekle II(that’s how we call him) was alone in 1795. It seems like you got this information out of Russian sources

Fun fact: Maria Vladimirovna was married to Franz Wilhelm, the grandson of Prince Joachim of Prussia, who was actually briefly considered as a candidate for the Georgian throne in WW1. This makes their son George Mikhailovich the descendant of a proposed King of Georgia, the Romanovs who ruled over Georgia, and the Georgian kings.

Tamar is a King, no one refers to her as a “Queen”

Respect from Georgia. Great work, bro🤍

Inaccurate facts about Irakli 2nd please do more research on the matter. Russia never send army to Georgia to help Georgians.

The Arsacid kings of Armenia is the first Christian dynasty

How perfect. I was reading upon Georgian politics, when I saw that the current president advocated for a constitutional monarchy in 2008 with reinstating the Bagrationi dynasty. I was about to check if you uploaded a video about the Georgian monarch and well, you perfectly uploaded it 4 days ago :D Let's see what you say.

Excellent job! Thank you for making a video about my home country!

The Battle of Martqopi (1625). 27,000 out of 30,000 Iranian soldiers were put to the sword. The Georgian Army attained a crushing victory against the army of Shah Abbas I.

What rubbish at the end, Georgians were absolutely loyal and very brave during the Russo-Ottoman war, Heraclius (as you called him), even won the battle of Aspindza, but Russian General Totleben betrayed him, planning the rebellion against the Georgian king. Eventually, Russia took his General back, and they never held any agreement whats so ever!

Tamar was called a king!! (The "Deed of Saladin" found in the Catholic Institute of France, Saladin's entry into Jerusalem in 1187. Medieval miniature Beha ad-Din tells us that the king of Georgians (Tamar, obviously)

The first Christian King was Armenian. Tiridates the Great (298 - 330) was converted to Christianity in 301.

Do the same for Armenian monarchs too

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Thank you for taking a time and all the effort for the content. As native Georgian I could not be more thrilled for world to get familiar with my native country and its priceless culture

I have been waiting for this since Matt mentioned it in the video of who would be the Russian emperor Glad you did it thank you Matt you did a good job with video it’s very interesting of all the Georgian kingdom went through

I don't care about religion. I don't care about monarchy. Yet, I here watching this video because I love the charts, how they are made and the story telling. 😅

About time the Iberians got some attention Who else thinks the channel should cover the Siam family tree?

Use of BCE and AD in one time line is unusual

Another amazing video

Thank you as always for the information

Good ole georgia

Interesting...gonna read more about those. Maybe you could consider adding little maps in your videos ? Like Kingdoms splitting up, getting conquered, change size, create alliances etc. Would make those videos perfect in my eyes.

Okay but why did the devil go down there

If they get their name from the Armenian dynasty, wouldn't the Armenians be the oldest Christian dynasty?

Oldest Christian dynasty is Arsacid dynasty of Armenia, which ruled Armenia from 52/66 to 428 AD. First king who offically adopted christianity, was Tiridates iii of Armenia (298-330) in 301, while Georgia adopted Christianity during 330-337 through Armenia.

Simon I spent 9 years in the Alamut Castle, the Fortress of Assassins. Then again, he was captured by the Ottomans in 1599 during the Battle of Nakhiduri and spent his remaining years in the Yedikule Fortress.

Tamar wasn't a queen, she was a king. You can believe it, she was a woman who was a king.

One thing. Kingdom of Abkhazia was not just north west part of the country but entire west part of Georgia, later as indispensable part of United Georgian Kingdom. If separatist Abkhazians are going to rewrite history simply ask what language they used in service and on what language was made writings of frescoes in their churches. And why they have been removing them for 3 decades.

Very good vid,nearest '(male-line) longveity' competitor might be the Irish O'NEILL clan descended from legendary,semi-historical Niall 'of the 9 Hostages' (c.370-411) ;I hope you get around to discussing them and their major extant branches.👌👍

Thanks for the video. BTW important correction. Tamar wasn't queen. She was officially king. თამარ მეფე (Tamar mepe) is King Tamar.

Why would Georgia break Georgievski traktat first? To whom would it be more beneficial to? Considering Russia at that time had annexed Entirety of Northem Caucasus, and Georgia was at existential crisis, wouldnt make any sense if Georgia had to betray only "protector" of its country at that time.

I've just recently got married in Tbilisi, I wish I had that video before then, so I could know a bit more of Georgian History before coming there. Loved Tbilisi ❤

My Family was Amatuni Dynasty. Which is also was king of South Gorgia and Armenia.

@usefulcharts, so if Bagrationis trace their roots to Bagratunians, how come Bargatunians are not THE oldest dynasty?

No Georgian wants to admit that the Bagrationi dynasty started as a branch of the Armenian Bagratuni dynasty. I don't know why, but it seems that about 90% of Georgians hate everything about Armenians.

Thank you for the video. There's a mistake regarding Heraclius II, initially he didn't break the agreement

Great idea to start my new CK playthrough😂

I spoke to a member of the georgian Bagrationi dinasty, head of the kakheti branch, he makes instagram posts on heraldry

well explained. thought the Georgians did not break the 1783 treaty first.

If we go by Wikipedia, the Georgian royals after Rev II and Aspacures II can trace their lineages back to at least the 2nd century BCE, where they decend from the Gens Julii through Marcus Antonius!

Its not Queen Tamari tho. Her title was Mefe(King).

Everything is correct other than relationships with Russia. Russia actually destabilized peaceful relations of Kakheti kingdom with Persia, they proposed to Unite Georgia and provoked war. Eventually for the battle of Aspindza they left without even engaging to the battle. They waited until king Erekle II was exhausted in the battle with Persians, There are even rumors that they poisoned king Erekles son Levan. (who would be the next king) And after years of wars, they dismissed Georgia as a Kingdom and occupied powerless state.

That area in the World throughout History was a Fulcrum between all corners of the World. Which if you’ve ever played a 4X Game, does not fair well for it. All kinds of fascinating things get mixed together there. But it’s always someone’s next Conquest. If you think about it, virtually every large Nation or Empire, either popped up like wild fire then collapsed, or slow burned in some sort of Geographical and Economic Stronghold. You hold the Choke Point.

All early Bagratuni kings had Armenian names, but it's still only "possibly" Aremenian dynasty?

Lady Ashley's a famed socialite and showgirl's fifth and last husband was Prince Dimitri a Georgian royal.

I guess it should be stated the definition of Dynasty at the beginning of the video. If we mean an unbroken line of succession in which each new element is linked to the previous by being their relative, 814 is not old enough to make it "the oldest Christian Dynasty". Robertians->Capetingians->Bourbons have an unbroken and documented line of father-son links which started before 800.

wait did the channel profile picture changed when?

The new red background for the logo is very royal, fitting for the channel. Could it have a deeper meaning?

As a georgian thank u❤

4:51 Tamar was NOT a Queen. She was The KIng Tamar. never in history was she refeered as queen. George III didn't had a son so he rised Tamar as his heir for the throne, 6 yeares before his death he recognised Tamar as the rightful king of Kingdom of Qartli (aka Georgia) and she was allways revered as such.

Mmmm... I can smell the European Royal Family Tree - North/East chart remake coming.

Good job, but we didn’t betray our promise to Russia, the army they sent was headed by a French general that turned the army around and instead of helping us started conquest against Georgia. Which weakened the king we fell to Persians and then they expelled the Persians and conquered us.

russia betrayed heraclius, georgians were fighting persians while waiting for russian army but russians betrayed us and left

thanks for covering about my country

4:49 bro why does Demetrius i portrait looks like that one Ralph bakshi ren & stimpy waking up meme

I kid you not, this is *the* video I was expecting the most to see on this channel. The House of Bagrationi has as much potential as any other European royal dynasty. I think it could have been covered in more detail. Also the union of the two main branches despite their (ongoing) rivalry, and the fact that the Georgian monarchy is one of the closest to being restored. If prince Giorgi is raised right and his parents are wise enough in dealing with the succession issue, we may see a towering figure of Georgian history later this century.

The House Bagration is now also part of the Imperial House of Russia since Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna's mother, a Bagration princess, married Grand Ducke Vladimir of Russia. This makes the current House Romanov the most senior of all royal houses in Europe and Middle East dynasties via the maternal line.

Great video!

Heraclius II didn't break the giorgevsky tractat first. Russians were supposed to help in that war but they never came.

Funnily enough, I was exploring the visigothic dynasties and kings in CK3 and the very first king (of the Iberian Visigoths, Alaric I)'s father was Georgian. He died in Constantinople, and Alaric I, his son, migrated to Iberia. That fact took me on a wild spiral on Wikipedia.

Can you do Armenia please? Great work thank u

Little Corection: Tamar was Not considered as Queen. She was considered as a legitimate King which is an absolutely loud novelty in the entire middle age. Another part is the fact that the Bagratuni dynasty has nothing to do with the Bagrationi dynasty. Yes, both sound the same, but the origin is completely different

Good video!

Our Georgian brothers 🇦🇲❤️🇬🇪

Hi UsefulCharts, can you please make a video on the Cambodian royal family tree. Thank you very much and please accept my request.

Ashot I wasn't somehow related to Bagratunis of Armenia, he was armenian himself, and Bagratuni dynasty is more than 2200 year old, because Smbat Bagratuni was the general who took northern regions of Armenia back from Iberia for Artaxias I of Armenia.

I’m leavinggggg On that midnight train to Georgia!