Jandieri was a 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...

 noble family known from the seventeenth century as grandees in the Kingdom of Kakheti

Kingdom of Kakheti

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According to the genealogical treatise by Prince

Batonishvili

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 Ioann of Georgia

Ioane Bagrationi

Ioane Bagrationi was a Georgian prince , writer and encyclopedist....

 (1768–1830), the family was elevated, in 1628, to the princely rank by the king Teimuraz I of Kakheti

Teimuraz I of Kakheti

Teimuraz I , of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a Georgian monarch who ruled, with intermissions, as King of Kakheti from 1605 to 1648 and also of Kartli from 1625 to 1633...

. After the Russian

Russian Empire

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 annexation of Georgia, the family was recognized by the Imperial order as princes

Knyaz

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  Jandierov or Jandieri (Джандиеровы, Джандиери) in 1829.

One of the members of the Jandieri family, Joseph, served as the Catholicos of Georgia from 1755 to 1764, and has been canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church.