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Maria Yaroslavna of Borovsk ( Russian: Мария Ярославна; c. 1420 – 4 July 1485), [1] also known by her monastic name Marfa, [2] was the grand princess of Moscow during her marriage to Vasily II of Moscow. [3] She was a granddaughter of Feodor Koshka, [4] and the mother of Ivan III of Russia. [4]
Alexandra of Lithuania. Alexandra ( Polish: Aleksandra, Lithuanian: Aleksandra; died 20 April 1434 in Płock) [1] was the youngest daughter of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his second wife, Uliana of Tver. [2] Though Alexandra's exact date of birth is not known, it is thought that she was born in the late 1360s or early 1370s.
Accession. Born in Meissen, Hedwig was the youngest daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, and Margaret of Austria. In 1458, the chapter of the Quedlinburg Abbey elected the 12-year-old Hedwig as successor to Princess-Abbess Anna I, who had died aged 42. Pope Calixtus III confirmed the election but decreed that the Princess-Abbess should ...
Source: [1] [2] Korcheva ( Russian: Корчева́) was a town in central Russia, on the territory of the modern Konakovsky District, Tver Oblast, on the Volga River, with a population of a few thousand people. It was first mentioned in the 1540s as a selo. [3] Korcheva received town status in 1781 by the order of the empress Catherine II.
When Grand Duchess Anastasia Sofiya Michailovichevna of Galicia was born from 1296 to 1306, in Halych, Halych, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, her father, King of Ruthenia Yurii I. Levovich Rurik, was 49 and her mother, Eufemia kujawska Piast, was 37. She married Groß Prinz Alexander II. Michailowitsch Von Tver about 1320, in Tver, Russian Empire.
Anastasia of Halych. Religion. Eastern Orthodoxy. Uliana Alexandrovna of Tver ( Russian: Юлиания Александровна Тверская; [1] c. 1325 [2] – 17 March 1391) [3] was a daughter of Prince Alexander of Tver and Anastasia of Halych (daughter of Yuri I of Galicia ). She was the second wife of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania.
Anna ( Lithuanian: Ona Vytautienė; died on 31 July 1418 in Trakai [1]) was Grand Duchess of Lithuania (1392–1418). She probably was the first wife of Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania. Anna was mother of Sophia of Lithuania, the wife of Vasily I of Moscow. [1] She is best remembered for helping Vytautas to escape from a prison in ...
