Ketevan Pkheidze

Ketevan Pkheidze (Georgian: ქეთევან ფხეიძე; died 1744) was a Georgian princess of the family of Pkheidze (also known as Mkheidze) hailing from Imereti. She was the first legitimate wife of Heraclius II, then King of Kakheti and the future king of Kartli and Kakheti.

Biography

Ketevan Pkheidze was born into a princely family in Imereti, a kingdom in western Georgia, tracing their origin to the 11th century. The branch to which Ketevan belonged had their estate centered at the village of Zedubani. Her father was Prince Zaal Pkheidze. She also had a sister who was married off into the ducal family of Racha; her name is not recorded.[1]

Ketevan married Heraclius II in 1740, shortly after the prince repudiated his engagement (or actual marriage according to traditional accounts of Prince Vakhushti, Marie-Félicité Brosset, and Cyril Toumanoff[2]) with Princess Ketevan Orbeliani, who thereafter retired to a monastery. In 1744, Heraclius was crowned king of Kakheti. Whoever was his consort, Heraclius had two children of his first marriage, Princess Rusudan (died in infancy) and Prince Vakhtang. Ketevan died of a severe illness in Telavi, being mourned by Heraclius and his father Teimuraz II, King of Kartli, who had arrived in Kakheti only to find his daughter-in-law dead. Her remains were taken and rested at the Alaverdi Cathedral. A year later, Heraclus married secondly to Princess Anna Abashidze.[3][4]

Ancestry
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References
  1. Chikovani, Yuri; Bichikashvili, Ioseb (2005). ქართული წარჩინებული გვარები: მხეიძეთა საგვარეულოს ისტორიული ნარკვევი [Georgian noble families: Study in the history of the Mkheidze family] (in Georgian). Tbilisi: Georgian Genealogical Society. pp. 6, 10. ISBN 99928-0-213-8.
  2. Montgomery, Hugh, ed. (1980). Burke's Royal Families of the World, Volume 2. London: Burke's Peerage. p. 66. ISBN 0850110297.
  3. Javakhishvili, David (2011–2012). "მეფე ერეკლე II-ის მეუღლეები" [The Spouses of King Erekle II] (PDF). Georgian Source Studies (in Georgian and English). XIII-XIV: 90–96. ISSN 1987-9563. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-07.
  4. Dumin, S.V., ed. (1996). Дворянские роды Российской империи. Том 3. Князья [Noble families of the Russian Empire. Volume 3: Princes] (in Russian). Moscow: Linkominvest. p. 69.
Royal titles
Preceded by
Tamar of Kartli		 Queen consort of Kakheti
1744		 Succeeded by
Ana Abashidze
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