deaths
January 11, 1798
Heraclius II of Georgia (born 1720)
Heraclius II of Georgia
Heraclius II, also known as Erekle II and The Little Kakhetian, of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the king (mepe) of the Kingdom of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti from 1762 until his death in 1798. In the contemporary Persian sources he is referred to as Erekli Khan, while Russians knew him as Irakly (Ираклий). Heraclius is the Latinized form of his name.