Family and Children
Vakhtang was married twice, first to Rodam née Qaplanishvili-Orbeliani (divorced around 1659, she later became a nun under the name of Catherine and died at Tbilisi in 1691), and then to Mariam (died 1682), widow of his adopted father Rostom.
He had several children:
- Archil, sometime king of Kakheti, and Imereti
- George (Gurgin Khan), king of Kartli
- Alexander (Iskander Mirza in Persia) (died ca 1699), who served in 1667 as a darogha (prefect) of the Persian capital Isfahan.
- Levan (Shah-Quli Khan), regent of Kartli
- Luarsab (1660–1698)
- Solomon (Suleiman Mirza) (1671–1703)
- A daughter (anonymous) who married, in 1655, Duke Zurab of Aragvi
- A daughter, Anuka, who was married twice, first (1660) to the Persian shah Abbas II, and second (1668), after his death, to a Persian prince Shah-Verdi Khan of Luristan.
- A daughter, Tamar (died 1694), who married, in 1686, the Georgian nobleman, Givi Zedginidze-Amilakhvari, and became a nun, in 1696, in her widowhood under the name of Gaiane.
- An anonymous daughter who was married to the Persian shah Sultan Hoseyn I.
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