 This occurred when the district was scrounged from King David X of Kartli by his younger brother Bagrat in reward for crucial assistance against the neighboring Georgian ruler George II of Kakheti.Henceforth, the lord of Mukhrani came to be known as the "Mukhran-Batoni", and the branch of Bagrations which held it as the Bagrationi-Mukhraneli (some members of which were later naturalised in Russia as the "Princes Bagration-Moukransky").As royal authority declined, Mukhrani evolved into an autonomous seigneury called a "satavado", that is "a holding of tavadi", or Georgian principality.