page_title: Tinatin Gurieli
hierarchical_section_title: Tinatin Gurieli
caption_attribution_description: English: King Levan of Kakheti and his wife Tinatin, a fresco from the Akhali Shuamta monastery
context_page_description: Tinatin Gurieli was queen consort of Kakheti, a kingdom in eastern Georgia, as the first wife of King Levan. A daughter of Mamia I Gurieli, Prince of Guria, she married Levan c. 1520 and bore him at least two sons, including the future Alexander II. She divorced Levan at her own will and retired to the Shuamta monastery, which she had built in Kakheti.
context_section_description: Tinatin Gurieli (Georgian: თინათინ გურიელი; died 1591) was queen consort of Kakheti, a kingdom in eastern Georgia, as the first wife of King Levan. A daughter of Mamia I Gurieli, Prince of Guria, she married Levan c. 1520 and bore him at least two sons, including the future Alexander II. She divorced Levan at her own will and retired to the Shuamta monastery, which she had built in Kakheti.  
caption: King Levan and Queen Tinatin. A 16th-century fresco from the Akhali Shuamta monastery.
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