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  • B-004 A ბერიძე (Beridze) belongs to a wider family of Georgian surnames built on the root ბერ-ი (beri) — among them კახაბერიძე (Kakhaberidze), გულაბერიძე (Gulaberidze), ღოღობერიძე (Ghoghoberidze), ჯანბერიძე (Janberidze), ჯოხთაბერიძე (Jokhtaberidze), ბერსენაძე (Bersenadze) and ბერასძე (Berasdze). According to onomastic research (Mariam Koberidze, 2023, drawing on I. Maisuradze), the compound names such as კახაბერი or გოგიბერი were formed from a man's given name plus ბერ-ი used as a suffix meaning "male, boy", and these compound names later became surnames in their own right — კახაბერისძე is already attested in the medieval Synodikon of Tbeti (ტბეთის სულთა მატიანე). The shared root is therefore linguistic, not proof of common descent. A separate oral tradition from Meskheti and Guria, recorded on Georgian Wikipedia and traced to Kveli Chkhataraishvili's 1959 study "გურიის სამთავრო", holds that the კახაბერიძე and გულაბერიძე families split off from the ბერიძე line, and that a king Giorgi III granted one Beridze the name კახაბერიძე; this should be read as a family legend rather than documented genealogy. No source connects გოგიბერიძე (Gogiberidze) or კობერიძე (Koberidze) to the Beridze family beyond the ბერ- root.
  • B-005 A The earliest document with an exact date that names the family is a charter of 25 October 1411 (koronikon 99) from Kartli, in which დავით ბერისძე and his wife მითა sell a vineyard at ბოტოტა to Svetitskhoveli under Catholicos ელიოზ. It survives in a later copy (Mtskheta documents No. 160; Corpus II No. 30). The name is older: a serf ბერისძე appears in a Shida Kartli blood-money claim of the second half of the 13th century (b-201).
  • B-008 A The earliest documentary trace of the family in აჭარა (Adjara) is a charter discovered by დიმიტრი ბაქრაძე (Dimitri Bakradze) in the 19th century, known as the „იასე ცინცაძის სიგელი" (Iase Tsintsadze charter), which names a ბეჟიტა ბერიძე (Bezhita Beridze). Bakradze argued the document was drawn up before Islam spread in Adjara, probably in the second half of the 15th century (დ. ბაქრაძე, არქეოლოგიური მოგზაურობა გურიასა და აჭარაში, 1987 ed., p. 33, as cited by მ. კობერიძე, აღმოსავლეთმცოდნეობის მაცნე VII/2, 2024). The scholarly source does not describe Bezhita as a nobleman; the „აზნაური" title given in the Georgian Wikipedia article is an addition, and refers in the original to the Beridzes of საციციანო in Kartli, who were აზნაურები of the ციციშვილი house.
  • B-009 A In his 18th-century "აღწერა სამეფოსა საქართველოსა", ვახუშტი ბაგრატიონი lists ბერიძე among the princely (თავადი) houses of გურია that stood under the გურიელი — alongside თავდგირიძე, შარვაშიძე, კვერღელისძე, ბერეჟიანი and ნაკაშიძე — "and likewise the aznaurs" (ეგრეთვე აზნაურნიცა). Later documents confirm the family's tavadi standing (a 1488 charter of Imereti; 17th-century Gurieli charters naming გიორგი ბერიძე as მესტუმრეთუხუცესი and ოთარ ბერიძე as სახლთუხუცესი), before the house declined to aznaur rank around the turn of the 18th century, its court offices passing to the ნაკაშიძე. Vakhushti gives no date for the family's origin; the "12th–14th century" dating found in popular surname articles is a later gloss, not his.
  • B-010 A In Kartli, PAL I (1991) indexes ბერიძე ხუცია, an aznaurishvili of the Tsitsishvilis with three serf households in მაწლეთი and ჯამლეთი, in Tsitsi Tsitsishvili's serf list dated [1658–1675] (Hd-14534 ბ); ბერიძე ბახუტა is in the same list. The Saamilakhvro register (second half of the 17th century, 1448-5032) records a Beridze household at ანდორეთი, four of whose men owed service with muskets.
  • B-011 D According to an oral tradition of uncertain origin, the ბერიძე (Beridze) families of აჭარა (Adjara) — especially those of ქვემო აჭარა (Lower Adjara) — were remembered as ბეგები (begs), an Ottoman-era title roughly comparable to the Georgian თავადი/აზნაური (tavadi/aznauri) nobility. This is family legend, not documented history: it first appeared as an uncited addition to the Georgian Wikipedia article ბერიძეები in October 2016, and the only academic text repeating it (M. Koberidze, აღმოსავლეთმცოდნეობის მაცნე, 2024) reproduces that Wikipedia passage without naming any informant or record. Written Adjarian records from the Ottoman period are largely lost, so the claim cannot currently be confirmed or refuted.
  • B-012 B At the turn of the 17th–18th centuries the princely (თავადი) ბერიძე house of გურია declined: the offices it had held at the court of the გურიელი passed to the ნაკაშიძე family, and the ბერიძეები were reduced to the rank of აზნაური. In the 18th century the childless აზნაური მამუკა ბერიძე of დვაბზუ bequeathed his estate to საყვარელ ნაკაშიძე. (Source: ო. სოსელია, ნარკვევები ფეოდალური ხანის დასავლეთ საქართველოს სოციალურ-პოლიტიკური ისტორიიდან, ტ. II, თბილისი, 1981, გვ. 167, as cited in the Georgian Wikipedia article ბერიძეები.)
  • B-013 D A Meskhetian legend (recorded in ქართული დიალექტოლოგია, vol. I, p. 362) says that most of the village ერკოტი near ახალციხე are ბერიძეები descended from a single monk who fled ზარზმა monastery during a Tatar invasion, married in ერკოტი, took up farming while secretly continuing to serve the liturgy, and was recorded under the surname ბერიძე; his lineage was nicknamed ზანდარიენთი (earlier ზარზგიენთი). A second, unreferenced variant retold on Georgian Wikipedia says three brother-monks of ზარზმა were ordered to leave and raise families during a plague, one settling in აჭარა, one in მესხეთი and one in გურია, all recorded as ბერიძე. Neither variant is documentary history; they are origin tales of one Meskhetian village lineage.
  • B-018 not confirmed In იმერეთი (Imereti), Georgian reference works describe the ბერიძე family as aznauri (gentry) in the service of the წერეთელი (Tsereteli) princely house and as garrison-men (მეციხოვნეები) of the სვერი (Sveri) fortress; the family is likewise recorded as princely-household aznauri in ლეჩხუმი (Lechkhumi) and სამეგრელო (Samegrelo). Note: this statement appears in the Georgian Wikipedia article without a specific archival citation.
  • B-021 D According to Adjarian oral tradition (recorded in ა. ახვლედიანი's 1970 collection "აჭარის საგმირო-საისტორიო ზეპირსიტყვიერება" and repeated in a 2024 article in აღმოსავლეთმცოდნეობის მაცნე), მემედ-ბეგ ჩახალოღლი-ბერიძე (Memed-beg Chakhaloghli-Beridze) of the village ზესოფელი (Zesopeli, ქედის მუნიციპალიტეტი) was a leader of popular resistance against Ottoman rule in south-western Georgia in the first half of the 19th century. The tradition calls him a comrade and contemporary of სელიმ ხიმშიაშვილი, says he was known as "ბაირახტარი" (standard-bearer), and that his band of about 100 men had contacts in სამცხე-ჯავახეთი and სამეგრელო as well as Adjara. No contemporary documentary evidence for him has been cited; these details are legend.
  • B-023 D According to a Gurian local-history account (repeated in Georgian Wikipedia from a 2017 blog post), an აზნაური of ჯვარცხმა, named there as ყარსუმ (?) ბერიძე, took part in the 1841 Gurian uprising (გურიის აჯანყება) and, in the fight near გრიგოლეთი against the Dadiani (Mingrelian) militia, captured a sword inscribed as a gift from King ერეკლე II to Dadiani; the sword is said to have remained with the Beridze family for about a century. The episode is not documented in any archival or academic source we could find, and even the source marks the first name as uncertain.
  • B-024 B Bishop იოანე ბერიძე headed the ჯუმათი diocese in Guria around the turn of the 18th century. His installation is dated 1687 (ქართველიშვილი 2006, via Georgian Wikipedia and გურიის მოამბე), 1688 (AKAK VI/2, 1875, after Bakradze's Gurian acts) and 1704 (the Shemokmedi gulani notes printed by Brosset, 1850).
  • B-028 A ვახუშტი ბატონიშვილი, in his 18th-century "აღწერა სამეფოსა საქართველოსა" (ქართლის ცხოვრება, vol. IV, p. 790), records a castle of the family in გურია: „ბახვის წყლის შესართავს ზეით არს ციხე ბერიძისა" — "above the confluence of the ბახვისწყალი stands the castle of ბერიძე" — and lists ბერიძე among Guria's princely (თავადი) houses. Georgian reference works identify this castle and its surrounding domain (საბერიძეო) with the village of ძიმითი, where a castle ruin survives, though this localisation is an inference rather than Vakhushti's own statement. Popular accounts also report a "Saberitzeo" marked on Joseph-Nicolas Delisle's 1766 map of the region; this has not been independently verified against the map.
  • B-030 A The linguist მარიამ კობერიძე (Herald of Oriental Studies, vol. VII, no. 2, 2024) names the destruction of written documents under Ottoman rule as the main obstacle to tracing the genealogy of the ბერიძე family in Adjara.

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