Giorgi III Gurieli (died 1684), of the Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 House of Gurieli, was a prince of Guria from 1664 to 1684 and a de facto

De facto

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 king of Imereti (as George IV) from 1681 to 1683. He succeeded his father, Kaikhosro I, as prince of Guria and secured his throne through paying tribute to the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

. He was energetically involved in the civil wars in western Georgia. After the death of King Bagrat V of Imereti

Bagrat V of Imereti

Bagrat V , of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a king of Imereti, whose troubled reign in the years of 1660—1661, 1663—1668, 1669—1678, and 1679—1681, was marked by extreme instability and feudal anarchy in the kingdom....

 in 1681, he seized the crown of Imereti, but was deposed, in 1683, by the Ottoman agents in favor of Bagrat’s son Alexander IV

Alexander IV of Imereti

Alexander IV , of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a king of Imereti from 1683 to 1690 and again from 1691 to 1695.A natural son of Bagrat V of Imereti, he was a political hostage at the eastern Georgian court of George XI of Kartli at the death of his father in 1681...

. Gurieli retaliated by mounting a nobles’ revolt against Alexander, but was killed at the Battle of Rokiti in 1684.