David IX.

Dawit IX. († 1360 ) was King of Georgia from 1346 to 1360 .

Life

Right at the beginning of the reign of David IX. (Rz. 1346-1360), the son of Giorgis V. the plague raged in Georgia (1346/48). In his day, taxes were paid to the Ilkhan court of the Mongol overlords in Iran . They amounted to 1,350 400,000 dinars. This was a third of the sum that his father Giorgi V had paid in 1336. In 1357 the khan of the Golden Horde Dschanibeg (1342/57) invaded Azerbaijan and eastern Georgia and had Malik Asraf, the deputy of the Ilkhan, executed. This year, coins were minted by him and his successor Birdibeg (1357/59) in Kara Aghač (Kakheti). In Tbilisi , which is occupied by the Jalairid Hasan the Great (1335-1356) in 1356, coins of the Jalairids are issued. A year later in Kara Aghač under his successor Uwais (1356-1374). Since no more coins appear after 1357, it can be assumed that Tbilisi and Kakheti were Georgian again by 1358 at the latest. The unity of Georgia was only under David IX. accomplished. David's wife Sinduxtar was a princess from the house of the Djakelis and a daughter of Sargis' II (1308-1334).

literature

DM Lang: Georgia in the Reign of Giorgi the Brilliant (1314-1346) , BSOAS 17/1 S 74-91, London 1955

predecessor	Office	successor
Giorgi V.	King of Georgia 1346-1360	Bagrat V.