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opments here is matching. Bakuriani, who left Georgia with Prince Bagrat to
serve Caesar, presumably came back to Georgia with the heir of the throne in
1025. Indeed, he should have had Grigol in 1026-1027. As we know, by 1083,
the creation of the Petritsoni Typicon, Grigol calls himself old  which makes
us conjecture that he should not have been younger than 50 (Orbeliani, 1991.
pp. 360-361). If we also consider that in 1086 he personally participated in a
combat and got killed, we should suppose that he would not have been much
older than 60. We will not probably be mistaken much if we say that Grigol
was 58-60 when he died. Hence, at the time of creation of the Tipikoni, Grigol
should have been 55-57 years old. 
In this way, it is clear that Bakuriani, the son of Grigol was taken by Cae-
sar Basil when the latter took Prince Bagrat captive. This is quiet natural.
Giorgi I would not have his only son and heir go captive alone and would have
sent a big retinue– compiled of representatives of the brightest families in
Georgia - to accompany him. In this way, the information of Kadrne is useless
in determining which part of Georgia Grigol was from. The information is only
another proof of Grigol Bakurinisdze’s belonging to one of the brightest fam-
ilies in Georgia. The fact that Caesar Basil took captives from South-Western
Georgia does not give any information on the descent of the latter. There were
hostilities in the place, truce talks and Caesar took captives from here, which,
again, is quite normal. We should keep it in mind that Giorgi was supported
by the whole army of Georgia in his fight. „Tsanarni and Shakni“ the same
„Kakhni and Herni“ (Kartlis Tskhovreba, 1955. pp. 285,383) were among the
fighters. In this way, the Tao descent of Grigol Bakurianisdze is not corrobo-
rated by historical sources. 
There is some information on the origin of Grigol in the name of his fa-
ther and the family name Bakuriani itself. Bakuriani means “the son of Bakur”.
Such a formation of family names seems to be quite common in the Georgia
of V-X centuries. Later it is replaced by adding the suffixes “dze” (son) and
“shvili” (son, daughter). The formation of a family name with the suffix from
the father’s name is the only way in “Matiane Kartlisamdeli”, the oldest part
of Kartlis Tskhovreba. We date this part back to no later than I half of  VIII
century. E. g. Juansher Juansherian, Agharsan Agharnersian, Nerse Nersian…
Such a formation of family names is common in a relatively later period, too.
E. g.: Marushian, Shavlian (Shavle-Savle)… The family name Areshian, men-
tioned by the historian of David the Builder, is notable in this respect. It comes
from the name of a Heri nobleman – Aresh.  The offspring of Aresh were
Areshian and Baram.  As we can see, we are facing an identical situation in this
case. First, a family name comes from a name Aresh (like Bakuriani – from
Bakur). Later, Bakuriani and Areshian become first names within the respec-
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tive families. In this way, we have Areshian - a representative of the Areshian
Family and Bakuriani – a representative of the Bakuriani family, i. e. Areshian
Areshian, Bakuriani Bakuriani (the cousin of Grigol, the father of Grigol). Both
these family names are later formed with “dze” and “shvili”. In Vakhusti’s work
we come across these surnames  in the forms of Areshidze and Bakurisdze. 
In this way, Grigol belonged to a Georgian noble family Bakuriani-Bakuri-
anisdze. What information has been preserved about this family? This family
originated from the son of Vakhtang Gorgasali and the king following him
Darchil/Archil II. This king of Kartli was the son of Vakhtang and his Persian
wife Balandukht. This  king of Kartli is commonly referred to as Dachi
Ujarmeli in sources. Based on Kartlis Tskhovreba, the ruling of Kartli by Per-
sians ended with the death of one of the descendants of King Dachi – Bakur.
After that the sons of Bakur- a representative of this main branch of the Gor-
gasali-Parnavazi – settled in Kakheti and started off the Bakurianisdze, the
same Bakuriani family (Kartlis Tskhovreba, 1955. pp. 217,225).
Nerse Bakurisdze - one of the representatives of this family – was the
Erismtavari of Kartli in the 70-80s of VII century (Draskhanakerteli, 1937. p.
14; Sanadze, 2000. pp. 15-23). Nerse and his offspring are mentioned as
Bakuriani in Moktsevai Kartlisai. We believe that right here is necessary to
dwell on Nerse  Bakurisdze – the same Bakuriani, i. e. the Nerse of Moktsevai
Kartlisai. Z. Aleksidze identifies him with Nerse II (Alexidze, 2001. pp. 311-
315) – the Erismtavari of Kartli of the time of Abo Tbileli, which  is a mistake,
of course. The fact that Nerse II had sons Philip and Agsharane is not enough
for such identification. 
All the people mentioned in the respective part of Moktsevai Kartlisai, in-
cluding Aghsartan with his sons Ashot and Gurgen, belonged to the verge of
VII-VIII centuries, the beginning of VIII century. As for the Nerse mentioned
in Moktsevai Kartlisai, he is the grandfather of Nerse – the Erismtavari of
Kartli of the period of Abo Tbileli – the father of his father Aghsartan
(Sanadze, p. 21). The thing is that it was Nerse I, who had a son called
Stepanoz, the same sovereign of Kartli Stepanoz III  (710 – 738), the father of
Mir and Archil (Sanadze, p. 21; Sanadze, (a); Sanadze (b); Saqartvelos Sapa-
triarko, 2001, p. 64 ). As for Nerse II, the Eristmavari of Kartli of the period of
Abo Tbileli, Stepanoz (the same Stepanoz IV) was his niece and not his son.
Here we would like to bring clarity to one more issue. Based on Sumbat
Davitisdze, son of David, Nerse and his offspring were considered Bagrationi,
which is not true. Sumbath Davitisdze was three centuries away from the pe-
riod of Nerse I and used Moktsevai Kartlisai in the respective part of his work.
While using it, he made a mistake typical of an old Georgian chronicler.
Namely, he considered the Eristavis coming one after another on the list to be
fathers and sons. In reality, Moktsevai Kartlisai notes: 
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