House of Gurieli

Gurieli
გურიელი
Nobility

Coat of arms of the Gurieli royal dynasty
Parent houseHouse of Vardanisdze
CountryGeorgia
Titles

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