Bagrat

Bagrat was a prince of Abkhazia who fought his half-brother Giorgi II for the throne after the death of their father Konstantini III. The Chronicle of Kartli says that Konstantini left two sons, the elder Giorgi and the younger Bagrat, born of a second wife, and that a bitter strife broke out between them. Bagrat's strength lay in his marriage: he was son-in-law of Gurgen II of Tao, the Bagrationi eristavi of eristavis whose only daughter he had married, and Gurgen aided him with all his might. The conflict thus set an Abkhazian succession quarrel inside the wider rivalry of the Bagratid princes for control of Kartli.

The chronicle records the outcome in a single sentence: there was no peace until Bagrat died, after which Giorgi assumed full sovereignty over the Abkhazians. The chronicler refers readers to a fuller account in the brothers' Life, a text that has not survived.

Modern reconstructions place the war in the years after Konstantini's death, about 923, and Bagrat's death around 930; the Divan of the Abkhazian Kings, drawn up under Bagrat III, does not count him among the kings, and no source gives him a regnal number. Whether he ruled any part of the kingdom, or held a co-royal title as some Georgian scholars have suggested, cannot be determined from the surviving record.