Demetrius II of Georgia

Demetrius II, called the Devoted (1259–1289), succeeded his father David VII as king of eastern Georgia in 1270, under a regent. In 1288, on Arghun Khan's orders, he crushed Derbent's revolt.

That year a plot by the Ilkhan's minister Buqa was exposed; Demetrius was suspected of complicity and summoned to the Mongol court. Against his nobles' advice he went, was imprisoned, and beheaded at Movakan on 12 March 1289. He was canonized by the Georgian Church.