David was the only known son of
George V of Georgia and his mother may have been a princess of
Trebizond. He ascended the throne succeeding on the death of his father in 1346. However, the kingdom's stability and prosperity left by his father was not to last, as the
Black Death swept through the area in 1348, decimating the population and producing a severe economic crisis. Many of Georgia southern territories:
Kars,
Nakhchivan, and
Garni now belonged to the
Ilkhanate. Despite the mentioned difficult situation, David IX was engaged in state building work. According to the inscription of 1350 of the
Tmogvi fortress, at the direction of King David, the walls of the castle were renovated. The king also paid attention to the facts of seizure of church estates by secular feudal lords during
Mongol rule. He returned to the Mtskheti church the peasants and lands from the Dzami and Khedureti valleys given by
David VII Ulu to the noble nobility, the Mtskheti church to Orbodzleli (King David paid 1200
tetri to Orbodzleli to give him the church estates). According to
Vakhushti of Kartli, King David's wife was Queen Sindukhtar, who seems to have been the sister of
Agbugha, the prince of
Samtskhe. One of the king's daughters, Gulshar, was married to Ioane of
Ksani, and the other,
Gulkhan-Eudokia, was married to
Manuel, the youngest son of the Emperor
Alexios III of Trebizond. This marriage, of course, was a political act and meant to strengthen the political union between Georgia and the
Empire of Trebizond. During David's reign, according to Vakhushti of Kartli, there was a
solar eclipse in Georgia in 1357. David died in 1360 in
Geguti. He is buried in
Gelati Monastery, he succeeded by his son,
Bagrat V the Great.
Coinage and foreign control , minted in Tiflis in 1344-1353. ,
Chobanids and
Muzaffarids in 1353. There is no known coinage of David IX. During the period from 1349-1356, Mongol
Ilkhanid coins were minted in Tiflis, in the name of
Anushirvan, the Ilkhanid puppet ruler put in place by the
Chobanids. In 1356, coins of the
Golden Horde ruler
Jani Beg were minted in Tiflis. In 1356-57, coins of the Ilkhanid
Ghazan II were again minted in Tiflis, but this time following Golden Horde designs. During the period 1357-1358, the
Jalayirids took control of Transcaucasia, replacing the Il-Khanids. Minting in Georgia therefore fell under the prerogative of the
Jalayirid Sultanate, and coins in the name of
Shaykh Hasan and his successor
Shaykh Uvais were minted in Tbilissi. == Family ==