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Heraclius II
King of Kartli and Kakheti (Georgia)
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Reign8 January 1762 – 11 January 1798
CoronationMtskheta
Svetitskhoveli Cathedral
1 October 1745
SuccessorGeorge XII of Georgia
King of Kakheti
Reign1744–1762
PredecessorTeimuraz II
Born(1720-11-07)7 November 1720
Telavi
Died11 January 1798(1798-01-11) (aged 77)
Burial
Svetitskhoveli Cathedral
ConsortKetevan Orbeliani or Ketevan Pkheidze
Anna Abashidze
Darejan Dadiani
Issue
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George XII
DynastyBagrationi
FatherTeimuraz II
MotherTamar of Kartli
ReligionGeorgian Orthodox Church
KhelrtvaHeraclius II's signature

Heraclius II, also known as Erekle II (Georgian: ერეკლე II) and The Little Kakhetian[1] (Georgian: პატარა კახი [pʼatʼaɾa kʼaχi]) (7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 [according to C. Toumanoff[2]] – 11 January 1798), was a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi dynasty, reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli-Kakheti from 1762 until 1798. In the contemporary Persian sources he is referred to as Erekli Khan (ارکلی خان), while Russians knew him as Irakly (Ираклий). Heraclius is the Latinized form of his name.

From being granted the kingship of Kakheti by his overlord Nader Shah in 1744 as a reward for his loyalty,[3] to becoming the penultimate king of the united kingdoms of Kakheti and Kartli in eastern Georgia, his reign is regarded as the swan song of the Georgian monarchy.[4] Aided by his personal abilities and the unrest in Iran following Nader Shah's death, Heraclius established himself as a de facto autonomous ruler, unified eastern Georgia politically for the first time in three centuries,[5] and attempted to modernize the government, economy, and military. Overwhelmed by the internal and external menaces to Georgia's precarious independence and its temporary hegemony in eastern Transcaucasia, he placed his kingdom under the formal Russian protection in 1783, but the move did not prevent Georgia from being devastated by the Persian invasion in 1795. Heraclius died in 1798, leaving the throne to his moribund heir, George XII.

  1. ^ Suny 1994, p. 56.
  2. ^ Hitchins, Keith. Heraclius II. Archived 2007-11-28 at the Wayback Machine Encyclopædia Iranica Online edition – Iranica.com. Retrieved on April 21, 2007.
  3. ^ Ronald Grigor Suny. "The Making of the Georgian Nation" Indiana University Press, 1994. p 55
  4. ^ Lang, David Marshall (1951), Count Todtleben's Expedition to Georgia 1769–1771 according to a French Eyewitness, p. 878. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 13, No. 4.
  5. ^ Yar-Shater, Ehsan. Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 8, parts 4–6 Routledge & Kegan Paul (original from the University of Michigan) p. 541

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