Principality of Starodub-Seversky

The Starodub Principality is an autonomous principality in the Seversk land that existed in total from the middle of the 12th century to the year 1517. The center is the city of Starodub (now the Bryansk region ).

Contents 1	History 1.1	Princes of the Old-Noble 2	Notes 3	References History

Starodub Principality on the map of Kievan Rus. The Starodub Principality was formed during the ramification of the Chernigov-Severnaya Olhovichi and the territorial fragmentation of their possessions. Vsevolod Olgovich, becoming the Grand Duke of Kiev in 1139, gave Chernigov to his cousins ​​Davydovichs. Then, Starodub mentions Svyatoslav Olgovich, returning from the south of Novgorod , from which, in particular, Voitovich LV. makes a conclusion about the old-Noble princedom of Svyatoslav in 1141-1146. After the expulsion during the internecine war of Svyatoslav Olgovich Starodub, Davydovici, who went to the union with Izyaslav Mstislavich, owned.

Starodub was retained by Izyaslav Davydovich at his transition to Kiev and occupation of Chernigov's reign by Svyatoslav Olgovich in 1157 (the latter complained that apart from Chernigov he owned only seven empty cities, where the horsemen and the Polovtsians lived ). After the suppression of the Davydovych dynasty, Starodub, along with other Chernigov volosts, was under the power of the descendants of Vsevolod Olgovich (unlike those of the north, owned by the descendants of Svyatoslav Olgovich). Subsequently Starodub was occupied by that prince from Vsevolodovich, who was the second oldest after Chernigov.

With the Mongol invasion of Rus, news of the principality disappears, after the defeat of Chernigov by the Mongols (1239), the territory is under the rule of Bryansk princes. In 1356 during the feuds of Bryansk princedom mastered the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Olgerd.

Zygmunt Kajstutovich. The first prince of Starodub was Patrick, the grandson of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gedimin, the son of Narimunt of Polotsk, then Dmitry Olgerdovich, a participant in the Kulikovo battle (1380), who died in the Battle of Vorskla (1399).

In 1455 - 1517 the Starodub Principality was owned by the former Mozhaisk prince Ivan Andreevich, who fled from the Grand Duchy of Moscow and his descendants. In 1465 they were also transferred to Bryansk (until 1486) and Gomel.

In 1499, according to the literacy of the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Alexander Yagellon , the patrimony of Semyon Ivanovich Starodubsky included the towns of Starodub , Gomel , Chernigov , Karachev and Khotiml. It was the largest single princedom on the territory of the GDL.

In 1500, Semyon Ivanovich Mozhaisky-Starodubsky moved to the service of Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow with all his possessions. The Lithuanian-Russian treaty of 1503 confirmed the entry of these territories into the Russian state.

In 1517 the Starodub Principality was liquidated.