Ratishvili

[1] According to the list of Georgian noble families compiled by Prince Ioann of Georgia in the early 19th century, the Ratishvili sprang off the ducal dynasty (eristavi) of Ksani.

[2] This view was further developed by the modern genealogist Cyril Toumanoff, who identified Rati Tsirkvaleli Glonis-Tavadze, the prothonotary of Georgia (1458/68) and a son of Duke Kvenipnevel II of Ksani, as the forefather of the Ratishvili.

A branch of the family was established in Russia in 1724 with the emigration of Prince Zurab Ratishvili (Igor Ratiev) in the suite of Vakhtang VI of Kartli.

Those remaining in Georgia had their estate in Ksovrisi near the ancient capital of Mtskheta and were listed among the princes of Kartli in a document attached to the Russo–Georgian treaty of Georgievsk in 1783.

[2] The Ratishvili had no officially confirmed coat of arms, but two versions of it are known, one found in Tsikhinsky's unpublished catalogue The Caucasian Armorial (1922), and the other given by Mikhail Vadbolsky in his book on the Georgian heraldry (1980).