Irakli Bagration of Mukhrani

Prince Irakli Bagrationi
ირაკლი ბაგრატიონ მუხრანელი
Prince Irakli Bagrationi ; ირაკლი ბაგრატიონ მუხრანელი
	Prince Irakli Bagration, 1926
Born	21 March 1909; Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died	30 October 1977 (aged 68); Madrid, Spain
Burial	Svetitskhoveli Cathedral
Spouse	Maria Belaiev; (m. 19??; div. 19??); Maria Antonietta Pasquini dei Conti di Costafiorita; (m. 1940; died 1944); Infanta Doña María de las Mercedes Raimunda de Baviera y Borbón; (m. 1946; died 1953); María del Pilar Pascual y Roig, Marquesa de Carsani; (m. 1961)
Issue	Jorge de Bagration; Mariam de Bagration ; Bagrat de Bagration
House	Bagration-Mukhrani
Father	Prince George Bagration of Mukhrani
Mother	Helena Złotnicka h. Nowina
Religion	Georgian Orthodox

Irakli Bagration-Mukhraneli (Georgian: ირაკლი ბაგრატიონ-მუხრანელი; 21 March 1909 – 30 October 1977) was a Georgian prince of the Mukhrani branch of the former royal dynasty of Bagrationi.

Early life

He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia), to Prince George Bagration of Mukhrani (1884–1957) and his wife Helena Sigismundovna, née Nowina Złotnicka. The 1921 Red Army invasion of Georgia forced the family to leave Georgia. Educated in Germany, Prince Irakli then settled in Italy in the 1930s.

Personal life

He married (first) and divorced Maria Belaiev. He married (second) Maria Antonietta née Pasquini dei Conti di Costafiorita (1911-1944) in 1940. Following her death in 1944, Irakli, with his infant son Giorgi, moved to Spain, where he naturalized and married (third) Infanta Doña María de las Mercedes Raimunda de Baviera y Borbón (1911–1953), a niece of Alfonso XIII of Spain, in 1946 at the Castle of San Sebastian, Spain. She died in 1953, leaving the daughter Mariam (born 1947) and son Bagrat (1949-2017) behind, and Prince Irakli married (fourth) María del Pilar Pascual y Roig (d. 1994), Marquesa de Carsani, in 1961.

Career

Irakli Bagration-Mukhraneli played a prominent role in Georgian political emigration and, as an active royalist, remained in opposition to the Soviet rule in Georgia. He restored the Order of the Eagle of Georgia and the Seamless Tunic of Our Lord Jesus Christ in 1939[1] and sponsored the establishment of the Germany-based Union of Georgian Traditionalists, which fought to restore Georgia’s sovereignty from the USSR and advocated a constitutional monarchy as a form of the government for independent Georgia. Following his father’s death in 1957, Prince Irakli succeeded as Head of the Princely House of Mukhrani and declared himself Head of the Royal House of Georgia, assuming the style of His Royal Highness. He died in Madrid in 1977. His remains were in the British Cemetery of Madrid until 1995.

Patronages

Member of the Union of the Nobility of Majorca.
Member of the Majorca Academy for Genealogical Studies.

Honours

Founder and Grand Master of the Order of Queen Tamara.
Founder and Grand Master of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia.
Grand Provincial of the Order of Queen Ketevan.
Knight of the Order of St. Andrew the First Called.
Knight of the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
Knight of the Order of the White Eagle.
Knight 1st class of the Order of St. Stanislaus.
Knight 1st class of the Order of St. Anna.
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sava.
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa.
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the White Eagle.
Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Prince Irakli Bagration of Mukhrani

16. Konstantin IV Bagrationi, Prince of Mukhrani

8. Prince Iraklij Konstantinovich Bagration of Mukhrani

17. Princess Maria-Charoschan Zedginidze-Gouramischvili

4. Prince Alexander Bagration of Mukhrani

18. Prince Ivan Argutinsky-Dolgorukov

9. Princess Katharina Ivanovna Argutinsky-Dolgorukov

19. Princess Nina Tumanishvili

2. George, Prince Bagration of Mukhrani

20. Zakhar Alexeievich Golovachev

10. Dmitri Zakharovitch Golovachev

21. Varvara Alexandrovna Ivina

5. Maria Dmitrievna Golovacheva

22. Egor von Hessen

11. Leonida Igorevna von Hessen

23. Elisaveta Reingoldovna van Scheltinga

1. Prince Irakli Bagration of Mukhrani

24. Antoni Polikarp Złotnicki h. Nowina

12. Dymitr Złotnicki h. Nowina

25. Elisaveta Dimitrievna Norova

6. Zygmund Czesław Złotnicki h. Nowina

26. Celestin Melchiorovich Treciak h. Sas

13. Celestyna Trzeciak h. Sas

27. Elżbieta Bejnarowicz h. Nowina

3. Helena Złotnicka h. Nowina

28. Prince Schansche Davidovich Eristavi of Ksani

14. Prince Elisabar Eristavi of Ksani

29. Princess Helena Ivanovna Djambakouriane-Orbeliani

7. Princess Maria Elisabarowna Eristavi of Ksani

30. Prince Shalva Revazovich Eristavi of Ksani

15. Princess Kethevan Eristavi of Ksani

31. Princess Ekaterina Aslanovna Orbeliani

References

(in Spanish) History of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia and of the Tunic of Our Lord Jesus Christ Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine (PDF). The official website of the Royal House of Georgia.

External links

Amadeo-Martín Rey y Cabieses (2005), Wittelsbach Y Borbón: Relaciones Y Enlaces Entre Las Casas Reales De Baviera Y De España. Siglos XIX Al XXI

Georgian royalty
Irakli Bagration of Mukhrani House of Mukhrani Cadet branch of the Bagrationi dynasty Born: 21 March 1909 Died: 30 October 1977
Preceded by George Bagration of Mukhrani (father)	Head of the House of Mukhrani 1957-1977	Succeeded by Giorgi Bagration-Mukhraneli
Vacant Title last held by Alexander Bagration	Head of the House of Bagrationi 1957-1977	Succeeded by Giorgi Bagration-Mukhraneli

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[1] (in Spanish) History of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia and of the Tunic of Our Lord Jesus Christ Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine (PDF). The official website of the Royal House of Georgia.