Eristavi of Guria

The House of Guriis Eristavi (Georgian: გურიის ერისთავი) or Eristavi of Guria, was a Georgian noble family, a branch of the Shervashidze, dynasts in Abkhazia.

Throughout the XVII century, the office was supervised by Tavadi Giorgi Sharvashidze, brother-in-law of Mamia III Gurieli.

Giorgi and his posterity received the feudal domains with monasteries of Gomaghali and Erketi (where there ancestral crypt was located) and Satavado (county) lands of Sajavakho that before was belonged to House of Chiladze.

Thus, their surname derives from the title of eristavi ("duke") and in the 18th century, the family bore the name Eristavi-Sharvashidze (ერისთავი-შერვაშიძე).

[2][1] The noble family of Maksimenishvili (მაქსიმენიშვილი) was a possible collateral branch of the Eristavi-Sharvashidze.