[3] British historian Donald Rayfield believed that his emissary played a political role, as more representation from the Kingdom of Georgia meant a balance on the representatives of Samtskhe and Samegrelo, two Georgian principalities seeking the recognition of their autonomy by Rome.

[2] However, Catholicos Anton II, who wrote in the 18th century, listed King Vakhtang IV's domains as mainly principalities of Western Georgia: Abkhazia, Jiketi, Samegrelo, Guria and Imereti.

Prince David Bagrationi, who would write later in the 19th century, added Ossetia to his domains, even though Anton II listed the latter as part of Demetrius III's territories.

[5] King Vakhtang met him in Akhaltsikhe, where the Georgians and Turkomans fought in a bloody battle that ended without a clear victor.

At night, Jahan Shah and his troops left Georgia and returned to Tabriz, putting an end to the Turkoman incursion.

[5] In 1442, King Vakhtang IV married Princess Sitikhatun Panaskerteli, daughter of Prince Zaza Panaskherteli-Tsitsishvili, lord of Khevdureti and Kareli.