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reported that the prince, referring to himself as King of All
Mingrelia, visited Constantinople, in February 1557, to obtain the Ottoman naval assistance against the Circassians, who had killed his father. Vrančić wrote that the Mingrelian ruler brought a precious bowl as present and was ready to pay
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Levan's journey to
Constantinople is also referenced in his namesake grandson's charter. The document, issued sometime between 1639 and 1657, does not specify the date and purpose of this visit, but states that the sultan granted to Levan nine vessels which were placed by Dadiani under command of a
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Marino
Cavalli reported that, four or five years ago, Dadian, prince or king of the Mingrelians, had visited the sultan in person to secure his support against his blood-enemies, the Circassians, and had been given six galleys. He then chose to make peace with the Circassians rather to make himself
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Levan seems to have been married twice. A woman named Elene and identified as the wife of Levan
Dadiani is known from a margin note in the Tsalenjikha Gospel. The other, called Marekhi, is depicted, alongside Levan and their daughter, in a fresco in the chapel of the
368:" (that is, Imeretians), and was willing to pay tribute to the sultan in exchange of this assistance. Busbecq was also aware of Dadian's past captivity at the hands of "the Iberians", who had captured him during a drinking party after a peace conference. The
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and secured the sultan's recognition of his independence from the king of
Imereti. Thenceforth, he was to be named as a "sovereign Dadiani" (ხელმწიფე დადიანი). According to the early 18th-century Georgian chronicles written by Beri Egnatashvili and
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dismissed his wife, Rostom
Gurieli's daughter, in order to marry a beautiful Circassian wife of his own uncle, Batulia. Levan attempted to restore a matrimonial alliance with the Gurieli by marrying off his daughter to Rostom's son and successor,
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Tardy, Lajos (1971). "Rapports d'Antal
Verancsics, ambassadeur du roi de Hongrie à Stamboul sur la Géorgie (1553–1557, 1567–1568)" [Georgia in reports by Antal Verancsics, Ambassador of the king of Hungary to Istanbul].
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to divide up
Mingrelia. Gurieli, wary that he would be the next target of Bagrat's centralizing efforts, declined the offer and advised the king to release Dadiani. Around 1550, Bagrat's yet another foe,
336:, and resumed his reign. The two princes-regnant then collaborated in dividing the estates of the Imeretian princes Chiladze, who had been dispossessed by the king for their support of Khosro's revolt.
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Levan died in 1572, when he broke his neck in a hunting accident, according to Beri
Egnatashvili's compendium, masterminded by the Mingrelian nobleman Jaiani. His successor was his oldest son,
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Subsequently, Levan rewarded Rostom
Gurieli's good services by mobilizing the Mingrelian army in his support against the Ottoman threat, but intrigues of Bagrat of Imereti's brother
278:, bribed the Imeretian nobleman Khopilandre Chkheidze to help Dadiani escape and then persuaded Gurieli to give him a free passage to Mingrelia, where Levan was quickly reinstated.
364:, communicated to his superiors an information about Dadian, king of the Mingrelians, who came to the Ottoman capital to ask for some war vessels against his neighbors, "the
299:, who soon, in his turn, humiliated the Dadiani by divorcing his new Mingrelian wife and marrying a widowed Imeretian princess, an aunt of Bagrat III's son and successor,
315:, in 1568, George III of Imereti made a common cause with Gurieli and attacked Mingrelia. Levan was unable to defend himself against the joint invasion and fled to
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Marekhi, who married twice; first, on 6 June 1564, Qvarqvare IV Jaqeli, Prince of Samtskhe, whom she divorced in March 1580, and married her second husband, King
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in 1533. Dadiani's break with the king of Imereti brought about his downfall and imprisonment in 1546. He was able to escape and regain his possessions, securing
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Dadiani's Constantinepolitan journey is also known from more contemporaneous sources—European diplomatic documents and a charter issued by Levan I's grandson,
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348:. These sources disagree with the Georgian chronicles regarding the nature of help provided by the sultan as well as the date of Dadiani's mission.
237:("Lord High Steward") of Imereti, but by defying Bagrat's call to arms during a war waged by an alliance of Georgian rulers against the expanding
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and the first to bear the title of Lipartiani. He was father of three sons and two daughter, including—according to
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continued to pose a challenge to Levan, but more immediate threat to his hold of power came from his overlords, the
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324:—the main sources available for this period of Georgian history—Levan returned with the Ottoman troops from
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Khorava, Bezhan (2001). "მოქვის ომოფორის დათარიღებისათვის" [For dating of the Mokvi omophorion].
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disrupted the Dadiani-Gurieli accord. The Gurieli family's pride was further wounded when Levan's son
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Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de (2005) . Forster, Edward Seymour (ed.).
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taxes to the sultan of which he had previously been exempted.
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too much dependent on the Ottomans. Around the same time, the
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498:(in Russian). Tbilisi: Metsniereba. pp. 133–135.
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Grebelsky, P. Kh.; Dumin, S.V.; Lapin, V.V. (1993).
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585:(in Georgian). Tbilisi: Metsniereba. p. 157.
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