Burdukhan of Alania

She was mother of Queen Tamar, who would preside over the apogee of the medieval Georgian monarchy.

She married George, then a crown-prince of Georgia, in the lifetime of his father, King Demetrius I, in the 1150s.

It is possible that the couple had another daughter Rusudan; but she is only mentioned once in all contemporary accounts of Tamar's reign.

One of them, an anonymous author of the Histories and Eulogies of Sovereigns, compares her to the Christian saints Catherine and Irene-Penelope.

Beyond the medieval chronicles, her name survives on the Icon of the Theotokos of Khobi, now on display at the Dadiani Palace Museum in Zugdidi, and in a wall inscription from Ruisi, where she is mentioned as a benefactor to the local cathedral.