Prince of Novgorod-Seversk
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Prince of Novgorod-Seversk was the kniaz, the ruler or sub-ruler, of the Principality of Novgorod-Seversk. It may have been created in 1139, the date of one modern authority,[citation needed] and is most famous for Igor Sviatoslavich, hero of the Old East Slavic Tale of Igor's Campaign.
List of princes
[edit]- Oleg I of Chernigov (1097–1115), previously Prince of Chernigov (1094–1097), progenitor of the Olgovichi clan
- Sviatoslav Olgovich (d. 1164), Prince of Novgorod (1136–1138) and Novgorod-Seversky (1139)
- Oleg Sviatoslavich, d. 1180
- Igor Sviatoslavich, d. 1202
- Vladimir Igorevich, d. 1208
- Roman Igorevich, d. 1211
- Oleg Igoreivich
In the aftermath of the Mongol invasions, it fell under the control of Briansk. The principality was taken over by the Lithuanians in the fourteenth-century when the power of the Golden Horde began to decline. In the fifteenth-century the principality was given to Prince Ivan of Mozhaisk when he fled from Grand Prince Vasily II.
- Under Lithuanian overlordship
- Ivan Dmitrievich of Mozhaisk, d. 1471 x 1485
- Semen Ivanovich, d. x 1500
- Vasily Ivanovich, d. 1519
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- Martin, Janet, Medieval Russia, 980-1584, (Cambridge, 1995)
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