on the road at Khoskaro, Ganja, in September 1675, and was buried in Qum, Iran. Family and children Vakhtang was married twice. His first wife was Rodam Kaplanishvili-Orbeliani, daughter of Prince Kaplan Baratashvili and founder of the Orbeliani family. At the insistence of the shah of Iran, Vakhtang had to divorce, with great reluctance, Rodam on his accession to the throne of Kartli, to marry Mariam Dadiani, (died 1682), widow of his adopted father Rostom. Rodam became a nun under the name of Catherine and died at Tbilisi in 1691. All of Vakhtang's children were mothered by Rodam. These were: Archil (1647–1713), sometime king of Kakheti and of Imereti. George XI (Gurgin Khan; 1651–1709), king of Kartli. Levan (Shah-Quli Khan) (c. 1653–1709), regent of Kartli. Alexander (Iskander Mirza; fl. 1666 – 1697), a darogha (prefect) of the Persian capital Isfahan in 1667. Married Mehr Sharf Begum, a daughter of Izz-i-Sharf and Mirza Abdollah al-Husayni al-Marashi. Luarsab (died 1698), whose natural son, Alexander (died 1711), was a Safavid commander in Afghanistan. Solomon (Suleiman Mirza; died 1703), who was married to Tamar, daughter of Shalva, Duke of Ksani, and had a son, Oman; An anonymous daughter, who married, in 1655, Zurab, Duke of Aragvi (died 1661). Anuka (died 1697), who was sent in the harem of Shah Abbas II in 1660. After Abbas's death, his successor Shah Suleiman I gave Anuka in marriage to Shah Verdi Khan of Luristan to the chagrin of Anuka's brother George XI of Kartli. Tamar (died 1694), who married, in 1661, Prince Givi Amilakhvari (c. 1634 – 1700) and had five children. She became a nun in her widowhood under the name of Gaiane. Elene. References Sources Political history of Georgia 1658–1703, excerpt from David Marshall Lang, The Last years of the Georgian Monarchy, 1658–1832 Vakhtang V (In Georgian) 1618 births 1675 deaths 17th-century people from Georgia (country) House of Mukhrani Regents of Georgia Safavid appointed kings of Kartli Converts to Shia Islam from Eastern Orthodoxy Former Georgian Orthodox Christians Muslims from Georgia (country) Iranian people of Georgian descent Burials in Iran 17th-century people of Safavid Iran