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Maria Borisovna of Tver (Russian: Мария Борисовна; 1442 – 22 April 1467) was the grand princess of Moscow as the first wife of Ivan III from 1462 until her death in 1467. She was the daughter of Boris of Tver. Biography
Maria of Tver (c. 1440–1467) Grand Princess of Moscow. Born in 1440 or 1442, in Tver, a town northwest of Moscow; died on April 22, 1467; daughter of Prince Boris of Tver and Anastasiaof Mojaisk (d. 1451); betrothed to Ivan III when she was six; married Ivan III (1440–1505), tsar of Russia (r. 1462–1505), on June 2, 1452; children: Ivan ...
Jan 30, 2024 · Ivan III was married at a young age to Maria, a princess of Tver (a Russian medieval state). They had a son called Ivan Ivanovich (r. 1471-1490). Maria of Tver died in 1467, and Ivan III decided to marry again to secure his dynasty.
Maria Borisovna of Tver ( Russian: Мария Борисовна; 1442 – 22 April 1467) was the grand princess of Moscow as the first wife of Ivan III from 1462 until her death in 1467. She was the daughter of Boris of Tver.
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Maria of Tver (1442–1467), the wife of Ivan III (1440-1505) died unexpectedly, and Ivan needed to remarry as he had only a single, surviving heir: Ivan Ivanoich (1458–1490). Paul first proposed marriage between Sophia and Ivan III in 1469 with the chief aim of spreading the influence of the Catholic Church in Russia. Mindful of the failure of the C...
Historians widely believe that Sophia was behind Ivan’s order for the reconstruction of the Kremlin and its churches by Italian artists and craftsmen. Aristotel Fioravanti (c. 1415–1486) blended the latest Renaissance innovations with Russian aesthetics to create one of the world's most beautiful churches in Christendom: the Kremlin's Dormition Cat...
The amount of political influence Sophia exercised over her husband remains a matter of debate and conjecture. Sophia does appear to have encouraged Ivan to break his treaties with the Golden Hoard in the 1470s. Ivan won the Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480, defeating Ahmed Khan bin Küchük, Khan of the Golden Horde (r. 1465–1481), which ende...
With Maria of Tver. See also. Notes. References. Simeon of Moscow. Simeon Ivanovich ( Russian: Симеон Иванович; 7 September 1317 – 27 April 1353), also known as Semyon Ivanovich ( Russian: Семён Иванович ), nicknamed the Proud ( Russian: Гордый, romanized : Gordy ), was Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1340 to 1353.
Maria Borisovna of Tver was the first wife, married 1452, of Grand Prince Ivan III and daughter of Boris Alexandrovich of Tver. Career. The two decided to seal the alliance by arranging a betrothal between the future Ivan III and Maria of Tver in 1452. lieutenant appears that she died from poisoning in 1467.
