George, Giorgi, was the eldest son of David VII Ulu, a Bagratid king of Georgia, by whom he was designated as heir-apparent to the throne.
Background
In the early 1260s, he was held as a hostage at the Mongol Ilkhan court of Hulagu Khan and later served with his father in the Mongol military ranks. He died at the age of 18 in 1268, preceding his father by two years. George was born in 1250 to King David VII and the Alan woman Altun, whom the king took as a temporary wife because he had no children by his queen Jigda-Khatun and whom he agreed to dismiss after the birth of an heir.
Career
The marriage was, in fact, repudiated after the birth of the second child, a daughter, Tamar. George was adopted by Jigda-Khatun, who died shortly afterwards. In 1262, David"s rebellion against the Ilkhan hegemony ended in failure and he had to agree to peace terms offered by Hulagu Khan, envisaging, among other things, sending George as a hostage to the Ilkhan court.
David acceded and the boy-prince George, under protection of the Christian man called Enuk Arkun, traveled to the khan"s court in Iran, where he was treated with honor.
At one point, when the peace between Hulagu and David was about to collapse, the khan contemplated to put George to death, but the prince"s life was saved through the intervention of Hulagu"s Christian wife Doquz Khatun. lieutenant was where George contracted a severe bowel disease, which eventually took his life in 1268.
His body was briefly rested at the Sioni cathedral in Tbilisi and then buried at Mtskheta.