ABSTRACT
Wakhtang (II), Prince of Mukhrani, who appears as the father of the eligible Prince Khozdrov, was the son of Bagrat, first Prince of Mukhrani, a brother of David VIII. This Wakhtang was, therefore, first cousin to Luarsab I. He had a sister, the famous Dedis-Imedi, who became the wife of the Atabeg Kay Khusrau of Samtskhe; and two brothers, Archil, who was sent as a hostage to Persia in 1566 and who was the father of the Princes Irakli and Useyn (see below); and Ashotan - father of the martyred Queen Ketevan of Kakheti. Born hardly later than 1510, Wakhtang, in the 1570'S, must have been an elderly man with a late litter of infant sons. (He had first been married to the daughter of Bad George of Kakheti before 1528.)
observes
The Chronique Georgienne mentions Wakhtang Prince of Mukhrani as fighting against Lala Mustafa Pasha - p. 18; but later he was made prisoner by Simon 1-p. 21. These incidents took place in 1578; and Wakhtang is stated to have died in 1580 - p. 22; but since his youngest son Khozdrov (Khusrau) was 23 in 1605 Wakhtang must have been living at least in 158 I. According to Chronique Georgienne - p. 13, Irakli, son of Wakhtang's younger brother Archil, was 'elected' Prince of Mukhrani (Mukhranis-batoni) as early as 1576. In May 1578 the new prince gave refuge to Nestan-Darejan, queen of Simon I - ibid., p. 1 6. From these facts it would appear that in his last years Wakhtang was an outlaw, out of favour with the King, and displaced by his sixteen-year-old nephew Irakli. His two sonswere then infants, but from our text, at p. 495, it seems that in 1604-5 Irakli (and perhaps his brother U seyn) together with Wakhtang's sons, Taymuraz and Khozdrov, were all living on the Mukhranian appanage.
