MINGRELIA

The Dadiani Dynasty

(Chikovani)

GENEALOGY

• 1) H.S.H. Nikolaoz Davit Dadiani, Duke of Dukes of Mingrelia - see below.
• 2) Lieutenant-Colonel H.S.H. Prince Andrea Davit Dadiani of Mingrelia. b. at Zugdidi, Mingrelia, 24^th October 1850 o.s., educ. Corps des Pages, St Petersburg, Russia, and Heidelberg Univ., Germany (LLB 1873). Cmsnd. Hussars of the Guard 1874, retd. as Lieut-Col. Created a Prince of the Russian Empire with the personal title of Prince Dadiani of Mingrelia and the style of His Serene Highness, 4^th January 1867. A world famous chess player. Presdt. Monte Carlo International Chess Tournament 1903-1904. He d. unm. at Kiev, Ukraine, 12^th June 1910 (bur. Martvili Monastery, Gordi, Mingrelia).
• 1) H.S.H. Princess Martha Dadiani of Mingrelia. b. 4^th February 1840 o.s. She d. at Zugdidi, Mingrelia, 1^st December 1842 o.s. (bur. Zaik). Copyright© Christopher Buyers
• 2) H.S.H. Princess Nino Dadiani of Mingrelia. b. 2^nd January 1841 o.s. She d. at Zugdidi, Mingrelia, 8^th April 1848 o.s.
• 3) H.S.H. Princess Salomea Dadiani of Mingrelia [H.H. Princess Salomé Murat]. b. at the Dadiani Palace, Gori, Kartli, 13^th October 1848. m. at the Palace of the Tuileries, Paris, 13^th May 1868, H.H. Prince Charles Louis Napoléon Achille Murat (b. at Bordentown, New Jersey, USA, 2^nd January 1847; d. at Tschkaduachi Castle, near Zugdidi, Georgia, 27^th February 1895), granted the style of His Highness by Emperor Napoléon III 1868, Lieut. French Army, second son of H.H. Prince Napoléon Lucien Charles Francois, 3^rd Prince Murat, sometime French Envoy Extr. & Min. Plen. at Turin, by his wife, H.H. Princess Caroline Georgina, youngest daughter of Major Thomas Fraser, late US Army. She d. at Paris, 23^rd July 1913 (bur. Boissy-St. Leger), having had issue, two sons and one daughter:
  • a) H.H. Prince Lucien Charles David Murat. b. at Moustapha, Algeria, 8^th July 1870. Settled in Georgia in 1900, but went into exile following the Russian Revolution. m. at Paris, France, 3^rd June 1897 (sep.) H.H. Princess Augustine Joséphine Agnès Marie (b. at Paris, France, 24^th May 1876; m. second, at Rome, Italy, 22^nd November 1934, Louis Charles Pineton, Count de Chambrun, and d. at Paris, France, 3^rd October 1951), second daughter of Alain Charles Louis de Rohan-Chabot, 11^th Duke de Rohan, 13^th Prince de Léon, etc., by his wife, Marie Marguerite Herminie Auguste, Duchess de Rohan, daughter of César de la Brousse, Marquis de Verteillac. He d. at Rabat, Morocco, 20^th December 1933, having had issue, an only son:
    • i) H.H. Prince Achille Alain Joachim Napoléon Murat. b. at Paris, France, 3^rd July 1898, educ. Georgia. Pilot, French Air Force, served in the Great War 1915-1918. m. at Paris, France, 14^th March 1923, H.H. Princess Madeleine Marie Louise Murat (b. at Paris, France, 2^nd July 1901; d. there, 8^th May 1945), daughter of Armand Eugene Louis Napoleon Prosper, 5^th Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, by his wife, Marie-Louise Fanny Clementine Therese, Marquise de Chasseloup-Laubat, daughter of Louis Antoine Stern. He d. at Paris, France, 29^th March 1987, having had issue, four sons and five daughters:
      • (1) H.H. Prince Lucien Louis Joachim Napoléon Murat. b. at Paris, France, 14^th December 1927. m. at Paris, France, 29^th June 1955, H.H. Princess Évelyne Marie Madeleine Christine Murat (b. at Paris, France, 21^st March 1935), daughter of Jean Marie Victor, Baron Reille, by his wife, Marie Liliane Isabelle Gabrielle , Baroness Reille, née Ubald Bocquet. He d. 21^st August 2005, having had issue, four sons and two daughters:
        • (a) H.H. Prince Achille Marie André Napoléon Murat. b. at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 14^th April 1956. m. at Paris, France, 4^th June (civil) and 18^th June 1983 (relig.) H.H. Princess Caroline Marie Élisabeth Murat (b. at Diégo Suarez, Madagascar, 23^rd August 1956), daughter of Bernard Michel Marie, Viscount de Lesquen du Plessis Casso, by his wife, Françoise Marie Genevieve Delage  , Viscountess de Lesquen du Plessis Casso, née Delage de Luget-Pelleterat de Borde. He had issue, two sons and one daughter:
          • (i) H.H. Prince Lucien Marie Bernard Napoléon Murat. b. at Ploemeur, Morbihan, Brittany, France, 17^th December 1986.
          • (ii) H.H. Prince Josselin Marie Napoléon Murat. b. at Cherbourg, Normandy, France, 9^th October and d. 11^th October 1996.
          • (i) H.H. Princess Charlotte Marie Gisèle Liliane Murat. b. at Vincennes, Val de Marne, France, 21^st March 1984.
        • (b) H.H. Prince Charles Marie Louis Napoléon Murat. b. at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 11^th April 1957. m. at Paris, 10^th September (civil) and at Ecardenville-sur-Eure, Normandy, France, 13^th September 1980 (relig.), H.H. Princess Aude Solange Denise (b. at Versailles, Yvelines, France, 29^th July 1960), daughter of Gilles François Henri Rougevin-Baville, by his wife, Anne [Annie] Cecile Germaine, née Bernard de Meurin. He has issue, three daughters:
          • (i) H.H. Princess Anne-Caroline Marie Madeleine Murat. b. at Versailles, Yvelines, France, 16^th August 1982.
          • (ii) H.H. Princess Hortense Marie Laetitia Pauline Murat. b. at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 27^th November 1984.
          • (iii) H.H. Princess Diane Marie Caroline Hortense  Murat. b. at Paris, France, 25^th March 1986.
        • (c) H.H. Prince Pierre-Antoine Marie Gabriel Napoléon Murat. b. at Paris, France, 29^th March 1967. m. at Saint-Nom-la-Bretêche, Yvelines, France, 27^th April 1988, H.H. Princess Isabelle Marie Christine Murat (b. at Ajaccio, Corsica, 24^th February 1968), daughter of Didier André Arnaud, by his wife, Christine Marguerite Marie, née de la Nouë. He has issue, one son and three daughters:
          • (i) H.H. Prince Jean Napoléon Murat. b. 6^th March 1996.
          • (i) H.H. Princess Tiphaine Marie Hélène Magdeleine Murat. b. at Paris, France, 8^th October 1988. Copyright© Christopher Buyers
          • (ii) H.H. Princess Domitille Murat. b. 11^th July 1991.
          • (iii) H.H. Princess Mathilde Murat. b. 15^th November 1993
        • (d) H.H. Prince Christophe Marie Napoléon Murat. b. at Paris, France, 28^th July 1972. m. at Ecardenville-sur-Eure, Normandy, France, 10^th May (civil) and at Urval, the Dordogne, France, June 1996 (relig.), H.H. Princess Virginie Murat (b. 1973), daughter of Jacques Rigaud, by his wife, Brigitte, née van Petteghem.
        • (a) H.H. Princess Magdeleine Marie Liliane Dominique. b. at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 4^th May 1958 m. at Mesnuls, Seine-et-Oise, France, 30^th April (civil) and 7^th May 1983 (relig.), Jean-Baptiste Jacques Marie Michel Chaumet (b. at Paris, France, 7^th February 1958), daughter of Jacques Joseph Marie Chaumet, by his wife, Christiane Marguerite Marcelle, née Hüe. She has issue, one son and three daughters.
        • (b) H.H. Princess Constance Marie Laetitia Isabelle. b. at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 24^th April 1959. m. at Ecardenville-sur-Eure, Normandy, France, 13^th June 1981, Marie Aimery Ghislain, Viscount van Cappel de Prémont (b. at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, France, 27^th March 1955), son of Pierre Sosthene Antoine Joseph Ghislain, Viscount van Cappel de Prémont, by his wife, Jacqueline Marie Cecilie, Viscountess van Cappel de Prémont, née de Villiers de la Nouë. She has issue, two sons and one daughter.
      • (2) H.H. Prince Philippe Louis Marie Gabriel Henri Hughes Napoléon Murat de Chasseloup-Laubat. b. at Paris, France, 27^th April 1941. Adopted by François, Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, when he took the surname of Murat-Chasseloup-Laubat, 19^th February 1964. He d. unm. in the UK, 4^th January 1996.
      • (3) H.H. Prince François Dominique Marie Napoléon Murat de Chasseloup-Laubat. b. at La Gataudiere, Marennes, Charente Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France, 26^th May 1942. Adopted by François, Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, when he took the surname of Murat-Chasseloup-Laubat,19^th February 1964. m. at Saint-Bon Tarentaise, 8^th January (civil), and at Courchevel, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France, 9^th January 1971 (relig.). H.H. Princess Huguette Marie Magdeleine Murat de Chasseloup-Laubat (b. Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France, 3^rd June 1945), daughter of Henri Arminjon, by his wife, Thérèse, née Neyrand. He had issue, four sons:
        • (a) H.H. Prince Louis Marie Alain Henri Napoléon Murat de Chasseloup-Laubat. b. at Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France, 1^st January 1972.
        • (b) H.H. Prince Stanislas Henri Marie Napoléon Murat de Chasseloup-Laubat. b. at Marennes, Charente Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France, 6^th November 1973.
        • (c) H.H. Prince Sébastien Yves Marie Napoléon Murat de Chasseloup-Laubat. b. at Saintes, Charente Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France, 28^th November 1975.
        • (d) H.H. Prince Basile Marie Bernard Napoléon Murat de Chasseloup-Laubat. b. at Rochefort, Charente Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France, 5^th February 1983. Copyright© Christopher Buyers
      • (4) H.H. Prince Alain Marie Joachim Napoléon Murat. b. at Marennes, Charente Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France, 2^nd October 1943. Museum Curator. Settled in Zugdidi, 2000. m. (first) at Marolles-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France, 26^th September (civil) and 4^th October 1975 (relig.) (div. at Paris, 17^th November 1981), Huguette Gratienne Marie de Taffanel de la Jonquière (at Baden-Baden, Germany, 19^th January 1948), daughter of Major Jean-Rémy Albert Marie Frederic, Count de Taffanel de la Jonquière, late French Cavalry and Artillery, by his first wife, and Simone Marie Françoise, Countess de Taffanel de la Jonquière, née Zens. m. (second) at Beaufort-Blavincourt, Pas-de-Calais, Artois, France, 19^th April 1982 (civil), H.H. Princess Véronique Marie Geneviève Murat de Chasseloup-laubat (b. at Paris, France, 15^th April 1949), historian and teacher, author of "Un gentilhomme dans la tourmente: Constant de Chabot 1779-1863" (1994), former wife of Ronald de Poulpiquet du Halgouët, Viscount de Halgouët, and third daughter of Renaud Marie Ernest, Viscount de Chabot de Tramecourt, by his wife, Clotilde, Viscountess de Chabot de Tramecourt, second daughter of Pierre Marie, Count de Chabot. He had issue, two daughters:
        • (a) H.H. Princess Annonciade Murat de Chasseloup-laubat. b. at Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France, 2^nd March 1980 (d/o Huguette), educ. Univ. of the Sorbonne, Paris, France.
        • (b) H.H. Princess Mathilde Mariam Magdaleine Clotilde Murat de Chasseloup-laubat. b. at Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Artois, France, 1^st August 1985 (d/o Véronique), educ. School No. 11, Zugdidi, Georgia, and Univ. of the Sorbonne, Paris, France. Copyright© Christopher Buyers
      • (1) H.H. Princess Salomé Marie Herminie Louise. b. at Paris, France, 17^th January 1926. m. at Paris, France, 6^th July (civil) and 12^th July 1951 (religious), Paul Henri Albin Chalandon (b. at Reyrieux, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France, 11^th June 1920). She had issue, two sons and one daughter.
      • (2) H.H. Princess Thamar Marie Gabrielle Jacqueline. b. at Paris, France, 23^rd February 1929. m. at Paris, France, 26^th October (civil) and 28^th October 1953 (relig.), Antoine Marie Hélie Gabriel, Count de de Boissieu (b. at Paris, France, 5^th April 1925), eldest son of Charles-Albert Paul Marie Joseph Antoine, Count de Boissieu, by his wife, Anne Marie Eugenie Juliette, Countess de Boissieu, second daughter of Marie Herve Stanislas Hélie de Durfort Civrac de Lorge, Viscount de Durfort. She had issue, four sons.
      • (3) H.H. Princess Pauline Marguerite Marie Louise. b. at Chantilly, Oise, Picardie, France, 18^th Septemebr 1931. unm. She has adopted three daughters.
      • (4) H.H. Princess Anne-Marie Nicole Charlotte Dominique. b. at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France, 12^th June 1936. m. at Paris, France, 13^th January (civil) and 21^st January 1961 (relig), Baron Alain Marguerite Jules Emmanuel Guillaume (b. at Uccle, Brussels, Belgium, 13^th October 1937), son of Baron Jules Marguerite Paul Wilhelm Guillaume, by his wife, Baroness Elizabeth Marguerite Ernestine Guillaume, née Wittouck. She had issue, one son and three daughters.
      • (5) H.H. Princess Marie-Célcie Agnes Elizabeth Murat. b. at Paris, France, 20^th April 1938. She d. at the Château de La Mothe, Béthisy St Martin, Oise, France, 18^th March 1945.
  • b) H.H. Prince Louis-Napoléon Achille Charles Murat. b. at Brunoy, Seine-et-Oise, France, 25^th August 1872. Cmsnd. Lieut. 9^th Curaisiers, Russian Army, served in the Russo-Japanese War (severely wounded, losing both his legs). He d. at Nice, Alpes Maritimes, France, 14^th June 1943.
  • a) H.H. Princess Antoinette Caroline Catherine Murat. b. at the Dadiani Palace, Zugdidi, Mingrelia, 15^th August 1879. She d. at Nice, Alpes Maritimes, France, 22^nd January 1954.

• 1) H.S.H. Prince Nikolaoz Dadiani of Mingrelia, Head of the Royal House of Mingrelia - see below.
• 1) H.S.H. Princess Ekaterina Dadiani of Mingrelia. b. at St Petersburg, Russia, 27^th March and d. there, 10^th December 1875 o.s. (bur. Adlerberg Mausoleum).
• 2) H.S.H. Princess Salomea Dadiani of Mingrelia [H.S.H. Princess Salomé, Nikolaievna Obolenskaya]. b. at St Petersburg, Russia, 13^th December 1878. Maid of Honour to the Empress of Russia. m. at St Petersburg, Russia, 9^th May 1897, Major-General H.E. Prince Alexander Nikolaievitch Obolensky (b. at St Petersburg, Russia, 24^th February 1872; d. by suicide, at Paris, France, 14^th February 1924), Cmsnd. 2^nd-Lieut. Preobrajensky Regt. 1894, prom. Col. 1905, ADC to the Emperor 1910, Vice-Governor of Kostroma, Chamberlain at the Imperial Court, Prefect of St Petersburg, Russia, Governor of Riazan, Councillor of State, Governor-General of Kiev, Podolia and Volhynia, third son of Lieutenant-General H.E. Prince Nikolai Nikolaievitch Obolensky, by his wife, Princess Maria Vladimirovna, daughter of Vladimir Stepanovitch Khrapovitzky. She d. at Asnières-sur-Seine, France, 13^th December 1961, having had issue, two sons and two daughters:
  • a) Prince Nikolai Alexandrovitch Obolensky. b. at St.Petersburg, 4^th January 1900. m. at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St Alexander Nevsky, Rue Daru, Paris, France, 9^th May 1937, Princess Véra [Vicky] Apollonovna Obolensky (b. at Moscow, Russia, 11^th June 1911; k, by the Gestapo, at the Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Germany, 4^th August 1944), joined the French Resistence after the German occupation, serving as Chief-of-Staff of the OCM in Paris, arrested by the Gestapo 17^th December 1943, rcvd: Knt. of the Order of the Legion of Honour, War Cross, and Resistence Medal of France, and the Order of the Great Patriotic War 1^st degree of the USSR (all pothumous), former wife of Igor Baïkalvasky, and daughter of Apollo Apollonovitch Makarov, sometime Vice-Governor of Baku, by his wife, Vera, daughter of Alexei Kolomnine. He d. at Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France, 5^th July 1979 (bur. at the Russian Cemetery, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Essonne). Copyright© Christopher Buyers
  • b) Prince Alexander Alexandrovitch Obolensky. b. at St.Petersburg, 30^th March 1905. m. (first) at Paris, France, 25^th August 1924 (div. 10^th February 1943) Olga Valerieanovna Boutourline (b. at St.Petersburg, 10^th March 1905; d . at Paris, France, 14^th June 1947). m. (second) at Santiago, Chile, 12^th May 1948, Princess Janina Erika Philippine Jacobea Anna  (b. at Yalta, Crimea, 28^th March 1916; d. at Santiago, Chile, August 2005), former wife of Prince Carl Johann Christoph Lieven, eldest daughter of Baron Arthur von Kleist-Keyserlingk, by his wife, Baroness Irene Sophie Isabel Cecile Barbara, daughter of Baron Paul Edmund von Hahn, of Zawierz, Braslaw, Poland. He d. at Santiago, Chile, 20^th July 1988, having had issue, one son:
    • i) Prince Valerian Nikolaievitch Obolensky. b. at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 25^th July 1925 (s/o Olga). m. at Munich, Bavaria, Germany, 7^th February 1954, Princess Ludmila Sergeievna  (b. at Riga, Latvia, 14^th June 1931), née Tschernow. He d. at Washington DC, USA,  12^th January 1977, having had issue, one son and one daughter:
      • (1) Prince Sergei Valerianovich Obolensky. b. at New Haven, Connecticutt, USA, 25^th March 1956. m. (first) at Rockville, Maryland, USA, 18^th June 1980 (div.) Jean Marie Lawrence (b. at Washington DC, USA,  10^th October 1957). m. (second) Princess April, née Gravel. He has issue, two daughters:
        • (a) Julie Anastasia Obolensky [Princess Anastasia Sergeievna Obolenskaya]. b. at New Smyrna, Florida, USA,11^th July 1990.
        • (b) Molly Zenaide Obolensky [Princess Zenaide Sergeievna Obolenskaya]. b. at New Smyrna, Florida, USA, 8^th February 1993.
      • (1) Princess Anna Valerianovna Obolenskaya. b. at New Haven, Connecticutt, USA, 6^th August 1959. m. at Washington DC, USA, 6^th August 1984, Andrei Roelofs Raievsky (b. at Zürich, Switzerland, 20^th November 1963).
  • c) Princess Nina Alexandrovna Obolenskaya. b. at St. Petersburg, 14^th January 1898. m. at Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 8^th April 1922 (div. 21^st July 1927) Konstantin Vassilievich Balaschew (b. at Kharkov, Ukraine, 3^rd June 1887; d.s.p. at Paris, 12^th May 1962). She d. at Paris, France, 6^th July 1980 (bur.  at the Russian Cemetery, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Essonne).
  • d) Princess Salomea Alexandrovna Obolenskaya. b. at St. Petersburg, 13^th November 1902. m. (first) Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 18^th October 1923 (div. 1943) Prince Vladimir Schakhovskoy (b. at St. Petersburg, Russia, 17^th May 1904; d. at Paris, France, 20^th February 1972), son of Prince Ivan Petrovitch Schakhovskoy, by his wife, Princess Zenaide Andreievna, daughter of Andrei Iskritzky. m. (second) at Paris, France, 24^th April 1948, Eugene Vladimirovich Bolotov (b. at Kovno, Lithuania, 20^th November 1895; d. at Paris, France, 15^th February 1968), son of Wladimir Alexandrovitch Bolotov, by his wife, Maria Andreievna, daughter of Andrei Iskritzky. She d. at Paris, France, 17^th October 1973.

• 3) Menik Nikolaievna. She d. 1954.

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