The Pieces on History of the Joint Reigning in Georgia

The article deals with the issues of the history of the Western Georgian state, so called Apkhaz Kingdom. It is showed that the politics of that state maintained the institution of joint reigning. It is also said, sometimes there the rules of succession were violated. For instance, king Konstantine III declared his co-reigner not senior son Giorgi, but junior Bagrat. We hold that for a certain period both btothers had been reigning jointly. The junior Bagrat reigned also jointly with his father Konstantine III. The lack of historical data does not give us opportunity to say was the joint reigning in the ApkhazKingdom legalised act or actual state based on force. The article also clarifies dates of such joint reigns. It is recognized that coreigning of Bagrat with Konstantine III started in 918, before the death the King of Kakheti Kvirike I. Thus, the joint reign of Giorgi II and his brother Bagrat took place since 922, from the death of Konstantine III up to the death of Bagrat himself.