Gurieli

The House of Gurieli (Georgian: გურიელი) was a Georgian royal noble family and a ruling dynasty (dukes) of the southwestern Georgian province of Guria which was autonomous and later for a few centuries independent, as well as a few ducal rulers of the dynasty rose in the 17th-18th centuries to be kings of the whole western Caucasus in place of hereditary Bagrationi kings of Imereti.