1557 – d. 1614), of the House of Jaqeli, was prince of Samtskhe (styled with the hereditary title of atabeg) and the pasha of its capital Akhaltsikhe from 1581 to 1607 (de facto only up to 1587).
Manuchar was the son of Kaikhosro II Jaqeli by his wife Dedisimedi, and served as the regent of Samtskhe between 1576 and 1578.
[1] Manuchar II was present at the Battle of Çıldır, where he watched the Ottomans win from a nearby mountaintop.
[2] After the battle ended, Manuchar descended, and handed over the keys of the nearby castles, while at the same time he looked on the thousands of captured men of the combined Safavid-Georgian army being executed on the spot.
[2] Later, when the Ottomans found themselves stalled in Kartli due to the fierce resistance of Simon I (Shahnavaz Khan), Manuchar and the rest of his family were brought to Erzurum by Lala Mustafa Pasha.
[6] Aware of the dangerous situation, Manuchar got involved in a deadly skirmish while asking for new orders in the tent of the pasha of Tbilisi, who had taken refuge in Samtskhe.