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Her childless marriage to Grand Duke of Lithuania and later King of Poland Alexander Jagiellon was a constant source of tension between the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Instead of guaranteeing peace, Helena's marriage gave her father Ivan III an excuse to interfere in Lithuanian affairs accusing Alexander of ...
15th-century Grand Princes of Moscow (7 P) Pages in category "15th century in the Grand Duchy of Moscow" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
A grand duchy is a country or territory whose official head of state or ruler is a monarch bearing the title of grand duke or grand duchess . Prior to the early 1800s, the only Grand duchies in Europe were located in what is now Italy: Tuscany (declared in 1569) and Savoy (in 1696). [1] During the 19th century there were as many as 14 grand ...
Daniel of Moscow. Daniil Aleksandrovich ( Russian: Даниил Александрович; 1261 – 5 March 1303), also known as Daniil of Moscow, [2] was the youngest son of Alexander Nevsky and forefather of all Princes of Moscow. [3] His descendants are known as the Daniilovichi. [3]
The Grand Duchy o Moscow ( [Великое Княжество Московское, Velikoye Knyazhestvo Moskovskoye] error: { {lang-xx}}: text has italic markup ( help)), or Grand Principality o Moscow (an aa kent in Inglis/Scots simply as Muscovy), wis a late medieval Rus' principality centred on Moscow an the predecessor state o the early ...
Algirdas ( Belarusian: Альгерд, romanized : Alhierd; Ukrainian: Ольгерд, Ольґерд, romanized : Olherd, Olgerd, Polish: Olgierd; c. 1296 – May 1377) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377. [1] With the help of his brother Kęstutis (who defended the western border of the Duchy) he created an empire stretching from ...
