George V of Georgia

George V the Brilliant (c. 1286–1346) of the Bagrationi dynasty worked to reunite Georgia as the Ilkhanate declined. The Ilkhan Ghazan installed him in 1299 against his rebel brother David VIII, but his authority reached little beyond Tbilisi, earning him the name Shadow King of Tbilisi; in 1302 his brother Vakhtang III replaced him. He returned as regent for his nephew George VI and was crowned in 1318, ruling as ally of Ilkhan Abu Sa'id and his minister Chupan.

Chupan's execution in 1327 was his opening: he halted tribute, expelled the Mongol troops, subdued Imereti and the western nobles, and in 1334 peacefully drew Samtskhe back. He issued two law codes between 1325 and 1338 and recovered Georgian monasteries in Palestine from the Mamluks.

To Philip VI of France he offered thirty thousand soldiers for a crusade. He died in 1346 and his son David IX succeeded him.