Aleksandr Glebovich of Smolensk (c1255-1313)

Death of prince This is an article about the Grand Duke of Smolensk. On the participant of the Kalka battle, see Alexander Glebovich (Prince of Dubrovitsky).

Alexander Glebovich (d. 1313 ) - Prince Mstislavsky ( 1278 - 1281 ), Grand Duke of Smolensk ( 1281 or 1297 - 1313 [1] ), son of Gleb Rostislavich Smolensky.

Biography
While his uncle, Fyodor Rostislavich Chyornyi, was at the Golden Horde (from 1281), he probably reigned in the Principality of Smolensk, but after Fyodor returned from the Horde, Aleksandr Glebovivh did not give him the throne, and by the will of Smolyan became their prince ( 1297 ). Fedor, married by his first marriage (from 1261 ) to the daughter of Yaroslavl Prince Vasily Vsevolodovich, established himself in Yaroslavl and in 1298 made an unsuccessful attempt to seize Smolensk, soon after which he died (1299) [2].

In 1300, Alexander and his brother Roman organized a campaign against Dorogobuzh, but were defeated by their cousin Andrei Mikhailovich Vyazemsky. In 1303, Daniel Alexandrovich of Moscow was captured Mozhaisk, in which Prince Svyatoslav Glebovich.

After his death on the Bryansk reign of the sons of Roman Mikhailovich, representatives of the Olgovichi dynasty , Oleg and Mikhail , Alexander put his son Vasily on the Bryansk throne (according to another version, Vasily was the son of Alexander Romanovich , a representative of the Olgovich dynasty ). Under the assumption of L. Voitovich, the daughter of Oleg Romanovich was married to one of the Smolensk princes, which gave them the right to claim the Bryansk reign.