Order of the Eagle of Georgia

Order of the Eagle of Georgia and the Seamless Tunic of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Grand Cross and Grand Collar Star of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia
Awarded by Bagrationi dynasty
Type	Dynastic Order of Merit
Awarded for	reward for virtue with regards to Georgia and the cause of the monarchy
Status	Currently constituted
Statistics
Established	between 1184 and 1213; reestablished in 1939
Precedence
Next (higher)	None
Next (lower)	Order of Saint Queen Tamar
Ribbon of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia

The Order of the Eagle of Georgia and the Seamless Tunic of Our Lord Jesus Christ, better known as the Order of the Eagle of Georgia (OEG), is the highest Order of Chivalry awarded by the House of Bagration, whose Chief and Grand Master is Prince David Bagration of Mukhrani, Duke of Lasos, Prince of Kakheti, Prince of Kartli and Prince of Mukhrani. Prince David is the head of the Royal House and supreme master of the order when his father, Jorge de Bagration (de jure King George XIV), died and Prince David inherited, by right of blood (jure sanguinis), the right to confer (jus honorum) his house’s Royal Order motu proprio as a heritable prerogative in his capacity of de jure King David XIII. On March 8 2017, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, "received the Grand Collar of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia" from David Bagration of Mukhrani in honor of the Queen's 90th birthday. This represents the first time that Her Majesty has received an order of chivalry from a non-crowned head of a non-reigning royal household.

Traditionally, founded by Queen Tamar of Georgia (1184-1213) it was restored by Prince Irakli Bagration of Mukhrani in 1939 as the highest of the House Orders of the Bagrationi dynasty.

Contemporary sources claim Saint Queen Tamar of Georgia founded the Order to help the Empire of Trebizond, and gave the Georgian knights the Tunic of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Eagle as their emblems, in order to distinguish them from the knights of the Empire of Trebizond who had the double-headed eagle as their emblem. The name of the Order refers to the Sacred Tunic that Jesus Christ wore during His martyrdom. According to tradition, after the relic was raffled off by Roman soldiers, it was taken to Georgia, preserved and buried in the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, alongside the insignias of King.