Prince of Moscow

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The Prince of Moscow (Russian: князь московский, romanizedkniaz moskovskii), later known as the Grand Prince of Moscow (великий князь московский, velikii kniaz moskovskii), was the title of the ruler of the Principality of Moscow, initially a part of the grand principality of Vladimir-Suzdal. By the late 14th century, the grand principality was inherited by the prince of Moscow;[1] the monarch bore the title of grand prince of Vladimir and Moscow and later the title of grand prince of Vladimir, Moscow and all Russia.[2][3]

History[edit]

The grand principality of Vladimir-Suzdal fell apart into feuding appanages over the course of the 13th century. The princes of Moscow were descendants of Daniel.[4] As Daniel never became grand prince of Vladimir before he died in 1303,[5] this meant that according to traditional succession practices, his descendants were izgoi: his son and successor Yury of Moscow had no legitimate claim to the throne of Vladimir.[5] This is why Tokhta Khan granted Mikhail of Tver the grand princely title when Andrey of Gorodets died the next year (27 July 1304).[5] Nevertheless, the princes of Moscow managed to play towards the favour of the Mongol khans of the Golden Horde in order to be awarded the grand princely title through a yarlik by the second quarter of the 14th century, in disregard of dynastic traditions.[6] The Horde sought to use Moscow to weaken the Principality of Tver (the strongest principality),[7] but by the second half of the 14th century, when the Horde got embroiled in a decades-long war of succession known as the Great Troubles, the Muscovite princes managed to grow too powerful, and the khans were too late to start awarding the yarlik of grand prince of Vladimir to the princes of Tver instead in order to keep Moscow in check.[8] Dmitry Donskoy passed the grand principality to his son Vasily I in his 1389 will,[9] thus usurping the right of the khan to choose the grand prince.[10]

List of princes[edit]

NameLifespanReign startReign endNotesFamilyImage
Daniel
  • Даниил Александрович
1261 – 4 March 130312834 March 1303Son of Alexander Nevsky and MariaYurievichi
Yury
  • Юрий Данилович
1281 – 21 November 13254 March 130321 November 1325Son of Daniel
Elder brother of Ivan I
Daniilovichi
Ivan I
  • Иван I Даниилович Калита
1288 – 1340133231 March 1340He was a successor of Alexander of Suzdal as Grand Prince of Vladimir and a successor of Yury of Moscow as Grand Prince of MoscowDaniilovichi
Simeon
  • Семён Иванович Гордый
7 November 1316 – 27 April 135331 March 134027 April 1353Son of Ivan I and HelenaDaniilovichi
Ivan II
  • Иван II Иванович Красный
30 March 1326 – 13 November 135927 April 135313 November 1359Son of Ivan I and Helena
Younger brother of Simeon of Moscow
Daniilovichi
Dmitry Donskoy
  • Дмитрий Иванович Донской
12 October 1350 – 19 May 138913 November 135919 May 1389Son of Ivan II and Alexandra Vasilyevna VelyaminovaDaniilovichi
Vasily I
  • Василий Дмитриевич
30 December 1371

27 February 1425
19 May 1389[11]27 February 1425[11]Son of Dmitry I and Eudoxia DmitriyevnaDaniilovichi
Vasily II
  • Василий Васильевич (Василий Тёмный)
10 March 1415

27 March 1462
27 February 142530 March 1434Son of Vasily I and Sophia of Lithuania. Deposed
Regent: Sophia of Lithuania (1425–1432)
Daniilovichi
Yury
  • of Zvenigorod
    Юрий Дмитриевич
26 November 1374

5 June 1434
31 March 14345 June 1434Son of Dmitry I and Eudoxia Dmitriyevna
Younger brother of Vasily I
Daniilovichi
Vasily
  • the Squint
  • of Zvenigorod
    Василий Юрьевич (Василий Косой)
1421 – 14485 June 14341435Son of Yury of Zvenigorod and Anastasia of SmolenskDaniilovichi
Vasily II
  • the Dark
  • Василий Васильевич (Василий Тёмный)
10 March 1415

27 March 1462
14351446RestoredDaniilovichi
Dmitry
  • Shemyaka
  • Дмитрий Юрьевич (Дмитрий Шемяка)
1400s

17 July 1453
144626 March 1447Son of Yury of Zvenigorod and Anastasia of Smolensk, brother of Vasily the Squint
First to use the title of Ospodar of all the Rus'
Daniilovichi
Vasily II
  • the Dark
  • Василий Васильевич (Василий Тёмный)
10 March 1415

27 March 1462
27 February 144727 March 1462Restored
Co-ruler: Ivan (since 1449)
Daniilovichi
Ivan III
  • the Great
  • Иван Васильевич (Иван Великий)
22 January 1440

6 November 1505
5 April 14626 November 1505Son of Vasily II and Maria of Borovsk
Co-rulers: Ivan the Young (1471–1490), Dmitry the Grandson (1498–1502), Vasily (since 1502)
Daniilovichi
Vasily III
  • Василий Иванович
25 March 1479

13 December 1533
6 November 150513 December 1533Son of Ivan III and Sophia PaleologueDaniilovichi
Ivan IV
  • the Terrible
  • Иван Васильевич
25 August 1530

28 March 1584
13 December 153326 January 1547Son of Vasily III and Elena Glinskaya
Regent: Elena Glinskaya (1533–1538)
Daniilovichi

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Fennell 2022, p. 306, in the conversion of the principality of Moscow into the grand principality of Vladimir and Moscow.
  2. ^ Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. (29 September 2005). Russian Identities: A Historical Survey. Oxford University Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-19-534814-9.
  3. ^ Filjushkin 2006, pp. 193–201.
  4. ^ Martin 2007, pp. 193, 428.
  5. ^ a b c Martin 2007, p. 193.
  6. ^ Martin 2007, pp. 193–194, 221.
  7. ^ Halperin 1987, p. 71.
  8. ^ Halperin 1987, p. 100.
  9. ^ Fennell 2022, But the most vivid proof of the assimilation of the thrones of Vladimir and Moscow is to be found in Dmitry Donskoy's will of 1389 in which he bequeaths Vladimir to his eldest son.
  10. ^ Langer, Lawrence N. (15 September 2021). Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-1942-6.
  11. ^ a b Martin 2007, p. 222.

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