Prince Archil of Imereti (original) (raw)

Archil (Georgian: არჩილი) (died 6 October 1775) was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty of Imereti. Prince Archil was a younger son of King Alexander V of Imereti by his wife, Tamar Abashidze and a brother of King Solomon I of Imereti. From 1769 to 1770, he commanded an Imeretian force against the Mingrelians around Khoni and, in July 1775, raided in the Pashalik of Akhaltsikhe. In 1772 Archil married Princess Elene of Georgia, a daughter of King Heraclius II of Georgia. The marriage was political, forced upon Elene, who was in love with Prince . Archil died at in 1775.