Gurandukht (daughter of George I of Georgia)

Gurandukht (Georgian: გურანდუხტი) (died before 1072) was a daughter of King George I of Georgia by his first wife Mariam.

[1] Gurandukht then took part in the restoration of Bagrat's authority in Georgia following the downfall of Liparit.

Their unnamed daughter was intended by Bagrat to marry the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan as part of a peace deal after the sultan's Georgian campaign in 1064, but he failed to obtain consent from his Armenian in-law Kyurik.

In the ensuing conflict, Kyurik was captured by Bagrat's agents and forced into submission of the fortress of Samshvilde to the king of Georgia.

Gurandukht's daughter was eventually given in marriage to Alp Arslan,[2] but later became the wife of the influential Seljuk vizier and scholar Nizam al-Mulk, with whom she had the son Ahmad ibn Nizam al-Mulk, the future vizier.