The title gave origin to the surname of four Georgian noble houses—Eristavi of Aragvi, Eristavi of Ksani, Eristavi of Racha, and Eristavi of Guria—confirmed in their princely ranks under the Russian rule in the 19th century.
Leon I of Abkhazia, hereditary prince (Eristavi) of Abkhazia, ruling between 720–740 and a vassal to the Byzantine Emperor.
He was the son of Bakur III, the last king of Iberia, and a hereditary duke (eristavi) of Kakheti.
By the end of 853, he had subdued the country and made many Caucasian magnates and princes (the eristavi and naxarar) captive, sending them to caliphal capital of Samarra.
The Georgian female poet Tamar Eristavi proposed, in 1988, a romantic though unreliable and otherwise unproved hypothesis identifying the famous Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli with Prince Demna who was allegedly in love with his cousin, Princess Tamar; survived the repressions and wrote his poem The Knight in the Panther's Skin (dedicated to Tamar) in exile under the assumed identity of Rustaveli.
In the 1578s, they secured the help of the Dukes of Ksani and took control of the Aragvi valley, being recognized as the eristavi (“duke”) of Aragvi by the crown in 1578.
During Bagart’s minority, she shared the regency with the grandees, particularly with the dukes Liparit and Ivane.
In 1926, Simon Sidamon-Eristavi, then a widower, married, in New York City, his second wife, Anne Tracy (1890–1978), a descendant of John Bigelow, an American diplomat in the mid-19th century.
A son of Ivane Abuserisdze, eristavt-eristavi ("archduke") of Khikhata (Upper Adjara, southwestern Georgia), he is principally known for his original treatise, The Complete Timekeeper, which contains information related to calendars, descriptions of different systems for maintaining chronology, dates of ecclesiastic holidays, tables of moonrise and moonset, information on special cycles, etc.