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{{Infobox royalty
| name= Prince Ioane
| image= Prince Ioann of Georgia.jpg
| image_size= 255px
| caption= 
| succession= [[Head of the Royal House of Georgia]]
| reign= 13 May 1819 – 15 February 1830
| predecessor= [[David Bagrationi]]
| successor= [[Prince Grigol of Georgia]]
| spouse= Ketevan Tsereteli 
| issue= [[Prince Grigol of Georgia]] 
| full name= 
| house= [[Bagrationi dynasty]] 
| father= [[George XII of Georgia]]
| mother= [[Ketevan Andronikashvili]]
| birth_date= {{Birth date|1768|5|16|df=y}}
| birth_place= [[Tbilisi]], [[Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti]]
| death_date= {{Death date and age|1830|2|15|1768|5|16|df=y}}
| death_place= [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russian Empire]]
| burial_date= 
| occupation= writer and encyclopedist
| burial_place= [[Alexander Nevsky Monastery]]
| religion= [[Georgian Orthodox Church]]
|signature= Prince royal Ioane, khelrtva (vect).svg
|signature_type=[[Khelrtva]] 
}}
'''Ioane''' ({{lang-ka|იოანე ბაგრატიონი}}) (16 May 1768 &ndash; 15 February 1830) was a [[Georgian people|Georgian]] prince ([[batonishvili]]), writer, [[Lexicography|lexicographer]] and encyclopaedist.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Genealogy |url=https://www.royalhouseofgeorgia.ge/genealogy/ |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=The Royal House of Georgia |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Life==

A son of [[George XII of Georgia|George XII]], the last king of [[Kartl-Kakheti]] kingdom, eastern Georgia, by his first wife [[Ketevan Andronikashvili]], Ioane commanded an avant-garde of a Georgian force annihilated by the [[Persian Empire|Persian]] army at the [[Battle of Krtsanisi]] in 1795.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

Following the battle, the kingdom entered a period of economic crisis and political anarchy. To eradicate the results of a Persian attack and to overcome the retardation of the feudal society, Prince Ioane proposed on 10 May 1799, a project of reforms of administration, army and education. This project was, however, never materialized due to the weakness of George XII and a civil strife in the country. In 1800, he commanded a Georgian cavalry in the joined Russian-Georgian forces that defeated his uncle, [[Alexandre Bagrationi]], and the [[Dagestan]]i allies at the Battle of Niakhura.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

Upon the death of George XII, Kartl-Kakheti was incorporated into the expanding [[Russian Empire]], and Ioane was deported to Russia. He settled in [[Saint Petersburg]] where he wrote most of his works with a didactic encyclopedic novel ''Kalmasoba'' (1817–1828) being the most important of them.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

He is also an author of a naturalist encyclopedia (1814), a children encyclopedia (1829), a Russian-[[Georgian language|Georgian]] dictionary, a Georgian lexicon, and of several poems.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

His manuscripts were discovered in 1861 by a Georgian scholar, [[Dimitri Bakradze]], who published them in an abridged version in 1862.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

He married in 1787, Princess Ketevan Tsereteli (1775–1832), daughter of Prince Zurab Tsereteli (1747–1823), Mayor of the Palace (''sakhlt-ukhutsesi'') of Imereti, and had the only son, [[Prince Grigol of Georgia|Grigol]].{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Ioane'''
|2= 2. [[George XII of Georgia]]
|3= 3. [[Ketevan Andronikashvili]]
|4= 4. [[Heraclius II of Georgia]]
|5= 5. [[Anna Abashidze]]
|6= 6. Papuna Andronikashvili
|7= 
|8= 8. [[Teimuraz II of Kakheti]]
|9= 9. [[Tamar of Kartli]]
|10= 10. Zaal Abashidze
|11=  
|12= 12. Iese Andronikashvili
|13= 
|14= 
|15= 
|16= 16. [[Heraclius I of Kakheti]]
|17= 17. Ana Cholokashvili
|18= 18. [[Vakhtang VI of Kartli]]
|19= 19. Rusudan of Kabarda
|20= 20.  Zurab Abashidze
|21= 
|22= 
|23= 
|24= 24. Melkisedek Andronikashvili
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|26= 
|27=  
|28= 
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==References==
{{reflist}}
*[[David Marshall Lang|David M. Lang]], Prince Ioann of Georgia and His "Kalmasoba", ''American Slavic and East European Review'', Vol. 11, No. 4 (Dec., 1952), pp.&nbsp;274–287
*''Soviet Georgian Encyclopedia'', vol. 5, pp.&nbsp;188–189. Tbilisi, 1980 (in Georgian)

== External links ==
* {{cite web |last=Marek |first=Miroslav |url=http://genealogy.euweb.cz/georgia/bagrat1.html |title= The Bagration dynasty |publisher= Genealogy.EU}}

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