Princes of Mologa

Mologa (Mologa) - princely family, a branch of the princes of Yaroslavl, divided in turn into several princely families.

The ancestor of the clan was Michael (d. 1362), the second son of Prince Yaroslavl of David Fedorovich, after whose death he had received an inheritance Mologa principality with its center in Mologa .His inheritance consisted of land along the rivers Mologa to Ustyuzhna inclusive and the Volga River from the White Yuga to the river Yuhoti [1] .On his board know very little.He left four sons.The eldest of them, Fyodor inherited the principality and his younger brothers were not appendages.Fedor soon became intimate with the Grand Duke of Moscow , Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy , an alliance with him, then began to pursue a pro-Moscow policies.In 1380 Fedor and his brother Ivan was involved in the Battle of Kulikov , and Ivan killed it. After Fedor's death in 1408 became the lot split up among his sons and nephews.Brothers Theodore of the second, Alexander, children are not left behind.And Ivan left three children.Of these, Gleb became the ancestor of the princes Shumorovskih, Golygino , Shamin and Khodyrev , and Fyodor - Princes tubs .The third son, Andrew, had only one son, Seeds, postrigshegosya a monk.The younger brother of Fedor Mikhailovich, Leo (d. 1369), left two sons, of whom the younger, Boris, no children left, and Senior, Andrew Barrel, became the ancestor of the princes Dulov .The sons of Fyodor second, Simon, became the ancestor of the princes Sitsko and the fourth, Ivan - Prozorovskii .The eldest of the sons of Fyodor Mikhailovich, Basil, who inherited the Mologa, leaving only the childless son Dmitry Blind, and the third, Dmitri Comforter - son of Peter, which was the last prince of the specific Mologa.Sons, grandsons and great grandsons of Peter bezudelnye Mologa princes, served the Moscow princes, but did not occupy high positions.Last Mologa princes mentioned in 1574.