Burdukhan was a daughter of Khuddan, whom the Georgian chronicles call "king of the Osi", a Georgian designation of the Alan tribe in the
North Caucasus. She married George, then a crown-prince of Georgia, in the lifetime of his father, King
Demetrius I, in the 1150s. She gave birth to Tamar, subsequently queen regnant of Georgia. It is possible that the couple had another daughter
Rusudan; but she is only mentioned once in all contemporary accounts of Tamar's reign. The medieval historians extol Burdukhan's piety and fidelity. One of them, an anonymous author of the
Histories and Eulogies of Sovereigns, compares her to the Christian saints
Catherine and
Irene-Penelope. Burdukhan died before her husband, that is, prior to 1184. Beyond the medieval chronicles, her name survives on the Icon of the Theotokos of Khobi, now on display at the
Dadiani Palace Museum in
Zugdidi, and in a wall inscription from
Ruisi, where she is mentioned as a benefactor to the local cathedral. ==Notes==