David II of Iberia

David II was the eldest son of Adarnase IV and the second king of the Iberians, reigning from his father's death in 923 until his own in 937. His kingship was largely titular. The heartland of Kartli had passed to the kings of Abkhazia in 904, and David's own domain was confined to Javakheti, Artaani, the Queli region, and Lower Tao in the far southwest. Nor did he receive the Byzantine title of kouropalates that his father had held: Constantinople, continuing its practice of playing the Bagratid princes against one another, granted that dignity to his younger brother Ashot II of Tao and left David with the lesser rank of magistros, which he shared with his kinsman Gurgen II of Tao.

The one episode in which he appears as an actor is preserved in the treatise De Administrando Imperio compiled for the emperor Constantine VII. When the imperial court sought to acquire the fortress of Artanuji from its lord, Ashot the Swift, David and Gurgen II, Ashot's son-in-law, opposed the transfer. David went so far as to arrest the imperial envoy Constans, who had been sent to invest Gurgen as magistros and Ashot as kouropalates. Beyond this the Georgian chronicles record almost nothing of him.

David died childless in 937. The crown passed over his two surviving brothers, Ashot II and Bagrat I of Tao, to the youngest, Sumbat I of Iberia, whose descendants continued the royal line through Bagrat II and Gurgen of Iberia to Bagrat III, the first king of a united Georgia.