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Jorge Bagration of Mukhrani

Jorge de Bagration
Prince of Georgia
Prince of Mukhrani
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Head of the Royal House of Georgia (disputed)
Tenure 30 October 1977 – 16 January 2008
Predecessor Irakli Bagration of Mukhrani
Successor David Bagration of Mukhrani
Born (1944-02-22)22 February 1944
Rome, Italy
Died 16 January 2008(2008-01-16) (aged 63)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Burial Svetitskhoveli Cathedral
Spouse María de las Mercedes de Zornoza y Ponce de León
Nuria Llopis y Oliart
Issue María Antonieta Bagrationi-Mukhraneli
Irakli Bagrationi-Mukhraneli
David Bagration of Mukhrani
Ugo Bagration
House Bagrationi
Father Irakli Bagration of Mukhrani
Mother Maria Antonietta Pasquini dei conti di Costafiorita
Religion Georgian Orthodox Church

Jorge de Bagration y de Mukhrani or Giorgi Bagration-Mukhraneli or George Bagration of Mukhrani (Georgian: გიორგი (ხორხე) ბაგრატიონ-მუხრანელი) (22 February 1944 – 16 January 2008) was a Spanish racing car driver of Georgian descent and a claimant to the headship of the Bagrationi dynasty and to the historical throne of Georgia.

Jorge was born in Rome, Italy, in 1944, the eldest son of émigré Prince Irakli Bagration-Mukhrani, a descendant of the Mukhraneli branch of the Bagration royal family of Georgia. His father, Prince Irakli Bagration-Mukhrani, had gone into exile in Italy following the Bolshevik Revolution, but retained his claim to the throne of Georgia.

His Italian mother, Maria Antonietta Pasquini (1911–1944), daughter of Ugo, Count di Costafiorita, died giving birth to him. In 1946, the widowed Prince Irakli married Princess María de las Mercedes de Baviera y Borbón (1911–1953), daughter of Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (who had been naturalised as a Spanish infante) and granddaughter of King Alfonso XII of Spain, thus bringing the Bagrationis into the marital and social orbit of the dynasties of Western Europe. Giorgi's cousin, Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia is, like him, a royal pretender.


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