Konstantin Borisovich of Rostov (1255-1307)

Konstantin Borisovich ( July 30, 1255 - 1307 ) - Prince of Rostov (1278-1288, 1294-1307), Uglitsky (1288-1294). [1]

Contents 1	Biography 2	Family 3	Notes 4	References Biography The son of Rostov prince Boris Vasilkovich from marriage with the Murom princess Maria Yaroslavna. He was born on July 30, 1255 (in the Lavrentiev and Nikon chronicles - in 1254). [1]

His name begins to appear in the annals from 1277, when he accompanied his father and brother Dmitry to the Horde, from where they had to take part in the encirclement of the unruly Caucasian Yasov ( Alans ) organized by the Khan Meng-Timur. Even before the campaign, Prince Constantine's father died in the Horde and his brother went to Rostov with his body, and he himself and uncle Gleb Vasilkovich took part in the campaign, from which he returned home in the middle of June 1278 and at the same time sat down on the throne with his brother. At the end of this summer, he feasted at a wedding with his cousin Mikhail Glebovich. [1]

As a younger brother and a more peaceful man, Prince Constantine did not take part in the offenses committed by the brother of Prince Mikhail Glebovich, and in 1281, because of the quarrel raised by his brother, he himself had to leave Rostov to the Grand Duke Vladimir of Dmitri Aleksandrovich, which, with the mediation of the bishop of Rostov Ignatius , reconciled the warring. In the same year, he took the side of the Gorodets prince Andrei Alexandrovich, who was at loggerheads with his brother, Dmitry Alexandrovich, the Grand Duke of Vladimir. In 1286, according to the division between brothers (probably by lot), he was given Rostov, but in 1289, probably voluntarily, he lost to Rostov and took Uglich. In the same year he went to the Horde together with his wife; there he also traveled in 1293, where, together with his brother and other princes, he supported slander against the Grand Duke of Vladimir, through whose efforts the reconciliation between him and his brother took place. [1]

In the same year, after the death of his brother, he took Rostov destiny, giving Uglich his son to Alexander. In 1294, he quarreled with the Rostov bishop Tarasy, who consequently left Rostov and went to Ustyug , but on the way he was overtaken by the prince, who "lord Vladyka and the people near his poima". [1]

In 1293, Andrei Alexandrovich, Prince Gorodetsky, taking the Grand Prince's throne of Vladimir, set himself the goal of subordinating his princes to his power, finding loyal assistants in the person of Prince Constantine and Prince Fedor of Yaroslavl ; The latter had to enter into a long struggle with the opponents of Grand Duke Andrew. This struggle ended in 1301 at the Dmitrov congress by the reconciliation of the princes, with the exception of Constantine, who, according to the annalistic news, "became infected" with Ivan, Prince Pereyaslavsky, and only the intervention of Bishop Semyon "humble them." [1]

After the death in 1299 of the wife of Prince Constantine, the latter married in 1302 in the Horde of some "Kutlukortki", as it is said in the annals, and in the same year married his son Alexander. In 1307, Prince Constantine died in the Horde. From the first marriage he had two sons: Alexander, Prince of Uglich, and Vasily, Prince of Rostov, and, perhaps, a daughter, that princess of Rostov, whom Yuri Danilovich , Prince of Moscow, married in 1297. [1]

Family The first wife died in 1299. The second wife from 1302 is the horde, the daughter of Khan of Kutlukotka (Kutlukortek) [2]. Children from the first marriage:

Alexander Konstantinovich (prince of Uglich) (1286-up to 1307), from 1302 he was married to an unknown person, from her had a son, Yuri (died 1320) Vasily Konstantinovich (1291-1316), Prince of Rostov, since 1310, was married to an unknown and had 2 sons: Fedor (1310-1331) and Constantine (1312-1365) Daughter, husband - Moscow prince Yuri Danilovich (since 1297) [3]