Batonishvili
Batonishvili (Eng. Son of the lord ) was the title of nobility of the princes and princesses of the Kingdom of Georgia . It was added to the first name instead of a surname . It was worn not only by the children of ruling kings , but also by the patrilineal descendants of earlier kings. The formal address of a Batonishvili was Uganatlebulesi ( Eng . Highness ).
In the Transcaucasian monarchies there were different sorts of nobles who at times had more or less sovereignty . After translating their titles into other languages, they are easily confused with the rank of Batonishvili. This is due on the one hand to the fact that there are no precisely corresponding Western terms for the titles and on the other hand the titles are often translated from the Russian language with the term Knjaz (dt. Prince ).
In 1783, the Georgian-Russian Treaty of Georgievsk was annexed to a list of noble families who were promised "the same privileges and privileges as are granted to the Russian nobility" under Article IX . Although the list named the highest Georgian families first, it did not differentiate according to rank. Russia later assigned them all to its Fifth Book of Nobility , which recorded all nobles who bore the title of prince but who claimed neither the rank of sovereign nor that of quasi-sovereign. The first mentioned Georgian noble family in the appendix to the treaty was that of the Bagratids , to which the Georgian kings and their male descendants belonged. In Russia they received the title Knjas and the rank of ordinary nobleman (Russian Dworjanstwo ) without distinction .
In Georgia, all members of the Bagratid dynasty bore the title Batonishvili, regardless of whether they belonged to the Kartlier, Kakheti, Muchrani or Imereti family. Their descendants living in Russia were allowed to bear the royal title of Tsarevich at the Imperial Russian court until 1833 . After a failed coup to restore the Georgian monarchy, the heirs of the Georgian kings were downgraded to the level of a Knyaz and were given the title Prince Grusinsky (Prince of Georgia) and Prince Imeretinski (Prince of Imeretia).