Prince of Novgorod-Seversk

Prince of Novgorod-Seversk

Prince of Novgorod-Seversk was the "kniaz", the ruler or sub-ruler, of the Principality of Novgorod-Seversk. It may have been created in 1139, the date of one modern authority, [ [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/RUSSIA,%20Rurik.htm#_Toc111997324 FMG] .] and is most famous for Igor Sviatoslavich, hero of the Old Russian "Tale of Igor's Campaign".

List of princes of Novgorod-Seversk

* Sviatoslav Olegovich, d. 1164 - Prince of Chernigov
* Oleg Sviatoslavich, d. 1180
* Igor Sviatoslavich, d. 1202
* Vladimir Igorevich, d. 1208
* Roman Igorevich, d. 1211
* Oleg Igoreivich

In the aftermath of the Mongol invasions, it fell under the control of Briansk. The principality was taken over by the Lithuanians in the fourteenth-century when the power of the Golden Horde began to decline. In the fifteenth-century the principallty was given to Prince Ivan of Mozhaisk when he fled from Grand Prince Vasily II.

:"Under Lithuanian overlordship"
* Ivan Dmitrievich of Mozhaisk, d. 1471 x 1485
* Semen Ivanovich, d. x 1500
* Vasily Ivanovich, d. 1519

Notes

References

* Martin, Janet, "Medieval Russia, 980-1584", (Cambridge, 1995)

External links

* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/RUSSIA,%20Rurik.htm#_Toc111997324 Foundation for medieval genealogy]


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