David VIII of Georgia

David VIII (1273–1311), son of Demetrius II, was enthroned by the Ilkhan Gaykhatu in 1292. After backing Baydu against Ghazan in 1295, he refused a summons to Tabriz and was driven into the Mtiuleti mountains, where he defeated a Mongol force.

Ghazan raised his brothers George V and Vakhtang III against him, but David eventually made terms as joint sovereign. In 1305 he regained Jerusalem's Monastery of the Cross for the Georgian Church. He died in 1311, succeeded by his son George VI.