Family
Levan was married twice; first to Tinatin (died 1591), daughter of Mamia I Gurieli, Prince of Guria. She gave birth to five sons and two daughters:
- George (d. 1561)
- Jesse (Isa-Khan) (d. 1583)
- Alexander (II) (1527–1605)
- Nicholas (d. 1589), Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia (1584–89)
- Erekle
- Khetevan; married the nobleman Gogibashvili
- Helene; married, in 1548, to Erekle, son of Bagrat Mukhran-Batoni, 1st Prince of Mukhrani
Levan divorced Tinatin in 1529 and married a daughter of Kamal Kara-Musel, Shamkhal of Tarku. They were the parents of seven sons and two daughters:
- El-Mirza (1532–1574)
- David (d. 1574)
- Kaikhosro (d. 1574)
- Teimuraz (d. 1568)
- Bagrat
- Constantine (died c. 1575)
- Vakhtang
- Nestan-Darejan (d. 1612), married King Simon I of Kartli
- Thekla, married Prince Cholokashvili, and became a nun c. 1602
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