Tamar of Imereti (; died 12 March 1510 in Kutaisi) was a queen of Imereti from 1483. After the collapse of the Kingdom of Georgia in 1490, she became queen consort of the Kingdom of Imereti until her death in 1510.
Tamar was married to King Alexander II of Imereti. Her family origins are unknown, and only limited information about her life has survived. Contemporary and later sources portray her as ruling alongside her husband during a period characterized by prolonged conflicts with Kartli and with the expanding Ottoman Empire. She bore five children, among them the future king Bagrat III of Imereti.
Little is known about TamarâÂÂs life. She was probably born into a Georgian noble family. In 1483, she married Alexander, who in the next year established his authority at Kutaisi as ruler of Imereti, in opposition to Constantine II of Georgia.
According to the French historian Marie-Félicité Brosset, Tamar played a significant political and ceremonial role as queen consort, particularly after the independence of the Kingdom of Imereti in 1490. Brosset notes that Alexander II and Tamar ruled âÂÂjointlyâÂÂ. In 1495, Tamar is mentioned alongside the king as having made substantial donations to the Gelati Monastery, contributing to the restoration of this major Orthodox center after its properties had been plundered by Constantine II. That same year, she instituted a charitable ceremony involving the distribution of food to the poor on the Feast of the Ascension, held on 31 May 1495, and commissioned the construction of a residence at Gelati for a permanent priest.
Tamar is again recorded in 1509 for organizing a charitable meal for the poor during the feast of Lazarus Saturday on 10 April.
In 1510, Alexander II left Imereti to launch a military campaign in Kartli. Tamar died in his absence at Kutaisi on 12 March 1510. She was buried at Gelati Monastery. Alexander II died less than a month later.
Tamar married King Alexander II of Imereti in 1483. Together, they had five children: