Simon Gurieli, a sketch from Teramo Castelli's travelogue.
Simon I Gurieli (also Svimon; Georgian: სიმონ [სვიმონ] I გურიელი, 1606 – c. 1672), of the House of Gurieli, was Prince of Guria from 1625 to 1626. He acceded to power in Guria, a small principality in southwest Georgia, after having murdered his father, Mamia II Gurieli, and was dethroned and blinded by his brother-in-law Levan II Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia. Simon thereafter became a monk and retired to Jerusalem.
SimonIGurieli (also Svimon; Georgian: სიმონ [სვიმონ] I გურიელი, 1606 – c. 1672), of the House of Gurieli, was Prince of Guria from 1625 to 1626. He acceded...
Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia, in place of his deposed predecessor SimonIGurieli. In his turn, Kaikhosro was overthrown and expelled by King Alexander...
Mamia IGurieli (Georgian: მამია I გურიელი; died 1534), of the House of Gurieli, was Prince of Guria from 1512 until his death in 1534. Succeeding on...
daughter of Manuchar I Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia, by his second wife, Tamar Jaqeli. Thrice married, successively to SimonIGurieli, Prince of Guria,...
Mamia II Gurieli (-1625/1627) is a 17th-century Georgian prince that ruled over the Principality of Guria in Western Georgia. Son of Prince George II...
Mamia III Gurieli (Georgian: მამია III გურიელი), also known as Mamia the Great Gurieli (დიდი გურიელი, Didi Gurieli) or the Black Gurieli (შავი გურიელი...
surviving chronicles and documents; Demetre appears to have been a son of SimonIGurieli, a patricide, who was deposed and blinded in 1626. Demetre emerged...
Giorgi V Gurieli (Georgian: გიორგი V გურიელი) (fl. 1726–1788), of the western Georgian House of Gurieli, was Prince of Guria from 1756 to 1758 and again...
Giorgi II Gurieli (Georgian: გიორგი II გურიელი; died 1600), of the House of Gurieli, was Prince of Guria from 1564 to 1583 and again from 1587 to 1600...
was a son of Manuchar I and his wife Tamar Jaqeli. Mariam (died 1682), who was married three times, successively to SimonIGurieli, Prince of Guria, King...
of presiding princes of Iberia, now as kings of Iberia. Usually counted as I, but he was the second Ashot ruling in Tao, after Ashot the Great. Sometimes...
the Dadiani-Gurieli accord. The Gurieli family's pride was further wounded when Levan's son Giorgi dismissed his wife, Rostom Gurieli's daughter, in...
Mamia V Gurieli (Georgian: მამია V გურიელი; 1789 – 21 November 1826), of the House of Gurieli, became Prince of Guria, in western Georgia, in 1797. From...
(widow of Alexander IV) expelled Simon back to Kartli. With the support of Mamia III Gurieli, prince of Guria, Simon managed to stage a comeback and married...
the celebration, the queen sent one of her ladies as a present to SimonIGurieli, former prince of Guria and first husband of Mariam, and four ladies...
counterpart from eastern Georgia, King SimonI of Kartli, Dadiani, preoccupied with his own disputes with Gurieli, ignored the king's call to arms. Levan...
Levan had him blinded and replaced with Kaikhosro IGurieli, the son of Vakhtang IGurieli. Simon's wife and son were taken to Mingrelia. Levan allied...
Giorgi III Gurieli (Georgian: გიორგი III გურიელი; died 1684), of the Georgian House of Gurieli, was Prince of Guria from 1669 to 1684 and King of Imereti...
Georgia. He sided with his nominal vassal, Giorgi II Gurieli, Prince of Guria, against Levan I Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia. The latter allied himself...
author Andreas Gryphius (1657). Teimuraz I was married twice; first, in 1609, to Anna, daughter of Mamia II Gurieli, Prince of Guria, who died of an ulcerated...
Georgia in the 15th century, was challenged by the neighboring ruler, Giorgi Gurieli, Prince of Guria, and his own younger brother, Mamia IV. In 1573, they...
Tinatin Gurieli. As a young prince, Jesse was placed by his father at the head of the Georgian auxiliaries requested by the Safavid shah Tahmasp I during...
Kakheti. Levan was married twice; first to Tinatin Gurieli (died 1591), daughter of Mamia IGurieli, Prince of Guria. She gave birth to at least two sons:...
monastery was favored by the Princes of Guria, especially SimonIGurieli and Kaikhosro IGurieli in the 17th century. Both made significant donations to...
led by Prince Gurieli in 1684. In order to get rid of the Ottoman hegemony, Alexander transferred his loyalty to the Safavid shah Suleiman I of Persia in...
Rostom's authority was defied, however, by his ostensible vassal Giorgi II Gurieli, prince of Guria, who employed an Ottoman force to dethrone the king in...
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