Reign
He ascended the throne succeeding on the death of his father George V the Brilliant in 1346. However, the kingdom’s stability and prosperity left by his father was not to last though, as the Black Death swept through the area in 1348, decimating the population and producing severe economic crisis.
He died, to be succeeded by his son, Bagrat V the Great in 1360.
He was married to Sindukhtar, daughter of Ioann I Jaqeli, Prince of Samtskhe-Saatabago. They had two children:
- Bagrat V of Georgia
- Gulkhan-Eudokia of Georgia (d. 1395), who married first Andronicus Comnenus and after he died his paternal half-brother, Emperor Manuel III of Trebizond in 1379. Both were children of Alexios III of Trebizond, the first was an illegitimate and the second a legitimate son by Empress Theodora Kantakouzene.
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