The childhood of the future George II of Georgia had coincided with the civil war between his father, Bagrat IV, and the rebellious Georgian feudal lord Liparit, who had succeeded in temporarily driving Bagrat into the protection of Constantinople, and had crowned George as king at the Ruisi Cathedral between 1050 and 1053, under the regency of Bagrat's sister Gurandukht.
In fact, Liparit became the master of nearly half of the Georgian kingdom and the most powerful dynast in the country.
By 1060, Bagrat IV had been able to secure the throne and made George his heir apparent, to whom the emperor in Constantinople had attached the title of curopalates.
In 1070, Prince George, at the head of a combined Georgian-Alan army, had inflicted a decisive defeat on the Shaddadid emir of Arran, Fadl II, and ravaged his possessions at Ganja.
George succeeds as King of Georgia upon the death of his father in 1072 and receives the title of nobelissimos and later that of sebastos from the emperor.
