Konstantin Olgierdovich Chartorysky (c1332-c1388)

Konstantin Chartoryi Konstantin Chartoryi Konstantin Chartoryi Prince of Chartory Prince of Podolsk 1363 - between 1388 and 1392 Together with	Yuri Koriatovich (up to 1375), Alexander Koriatovich (up to 1380), Fedor Koriatovich Successor	Fedor Koriatovich Birth	OK. 1335 Death	between 1388 and 1392 the Kingdom of Hungary Rod	Gediminovichi Father	Koriat or Olgerd Children	Gleb, Grigory and Vasily Constantine Czartoryski ( Pol. Konstanty Czartoryski ; mind between 1388 and 1392.) - statesman and military leader of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the founder of the genus Czartoryski. He was the son of Olgerd the grandson of Gedimidas. According to the modern Polish historian Jan Tengowski, the former is more likely [1]. His cousin after his father was Jagiello.

Biography Member of the Battle of the Blue Waters (1362). He led one of the teams in the battle of Olgerd with the Golden Horde army. The victory in this battle over the troops of the khans of the Podolsk and Crimean uluses of Khadzhibey and Kutla-Bugi allowed the Koryatovs to take possession of Maloye Podolye, which passed to Konstantin Koriatovich. Together with Bratslavshchina, which was already owned by Constantine, it formed the Podolsk principality , where Constantine became the first prince. Constantine was also a prince of Chernigov and Seversk.

Konstantin Koriatovich became directly a vassal of the Grand Duke of Lithuania.

After 1362 Konstantin Koriatovich held the capital in Smotrich. The chronicler noted that the Podolsk land (Little Podolia), badly devastated by the Baskaks and Atamans, was in a state of decline, many cities had to be rebuilt. During the reign of Prince Konstantin Koriatovich (1380 - until 1388/1392), an own coin was minted in the Podolsk principality, known from historical sources as the “ Podolsky half-groschik ”. On the coins of Constantine was depicted - George the Victorious (the coat of arms of the Koryatovich family and the coat of arms of the Hungarian kings from the dynasty of Anjou). On the early coins there was an inscription in Latin: “ Konstantin the prince, the landowner and the owner of Smotrich ”, on the later ones - “ Konstantin the prince, the landowner and the owner of Podolya ”.

According to Supral, Slutsk and other chronicles, in 1344, interested in joining Podolia, the Polish king, Casimir III, offered Podolsky Prince Konstantin Koriatovich to marry one of his daughters, [[Kunegund[[. However, Constantine did not want to convert from Orthodoxy to the Catholic faith, and negotiations ended without result. The chronicler specially noted the fidelity of Prince Konstantin Koriatovich to Orthodoxy, since the other Koriatovichs were not so firm.

The aggression of King Casimir III in August-November 1349 ended with the seizure of Galician land and most of Volyn. In order not to lose his principality, Konstantin Koriatovich swore to the Polish king.

Podolsky semi-tip of Konstantin Chartoryi Constantine after the conclusion of the Krevo Union in 1385 moved to Hungary, where he died.

Prince Constantine had three sons:

Gleb Konstantinovich Czartoryski - Seversky Prince, died while defending Vilna in 1399 Grigory Chartoryi Vasily Konstantinovich Chartoryi