Principality of Kobrin
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The Principality of Kobrin (Russian Ко́бринское кня́жество ) was a principality in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania around Kobryn from 1387 to 1519 in what is now Belarus .
territory
The principality was in the area around Kobryn , important places were Dobuchin , until 1435 also Ratne , Ljuboml , Koschersk . In 1404 the villages Khruchchev , Prochnow , Nezuchojschi and Milanowitschi were mentioned.
history
Kobryn was first mentioned in 1287 when Prince of Halich-Volhynia Vladimir Vasilkovich transferred the castle to his wife.
Since 1366 the area belonged to Lithuania. Grand Duke Algirdas gave it to his son Fiodoras .
1377 had Fiodoras not his brother after the death of his father Jogaila of Lithuania, but probably the Polish-Hungarian king Louis I assumed. During this time he led a rule of Ratne independent of Halitsch-Volhynien . In 1386 he submitted to Jogailo .
His son Roman von Kobrin was first mentioned in 1387 . In 1404, Grand Duke Vytautas confirmed his rights as ruler in Kobrin. He was mentioned for the last time in 1416.
His son Simon was first mentioned in 1431 when he took the side of Švitrigaila against Sigismund in the battle for the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . As a result, he was captured and lost Ratne . Under his son Ivan and his wife Fedora that emerged Spassky Monastery in Kobrin and the church in Dobutschin ( pruzhany ). The marriage remained without a male successor. In 1492, after the death of her husband, Grand Duke Alexander confirmed Fedora the rights to a third of the territory. She married Juri Pocowicz in 1492 and in 1508 the Chancellor of the Grand Duchy Mikołaj Radziwiłł .
The last princess of Kobrin was Anna , Simon's daughter . When she died in 1518, the principality was converted into a Starostei and given to her husband Wacław Stanisławowicz Kostewicz .
In 1532 Queen Bona Sforza was transferred to the Starostei, in 1566 she went into the Powiat Pińsk of the newly created Brześć Litewski Voivodeship .
Prince of Kobrin
The years denote the first and last written record of the people, the rule probably began earlier and ended later
- Roman (1387–1416), son of Fiodoras of Ratne , grandson of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania
- Simonas ( Simon ) (1431–1455), son of Roman
- Johann ( Iwan ) (? –1491), son of Simonas
- Fedora (1492–1512), wife of Ivan , daughter of Ivan Rogatinski
- Anna (1512–1518), daughter of Simonas
literature
- Климчук Ф. Д .: Некоторые дискуссионные вопросы средневековой истории Надъясельдья и Погорынья in: Palaeoslavica , XII, No 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2004, p 5-28 online
- Дзярнович О .: Берестейский повет до и после РефоРмы 1565-1566 гг .: к истории административно-территориальных единиц в Великом княжестве Литовском ( The Powiat Brest before and after the reforms of 1565/66. On the history of administrative-territorial units in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ), in: Ukraina Lithuanica , Vol. 1, Kiev 2009 online
Remarks
- ↑ Year of the first mention of a Prince of Kobrin, 1404 the principality was officially confirmed
- ↑ Шабульдо Ф. М .: Земли Юго-Западной Руси в составе Великого княжества Литовского ( The territories of southwestern Russia in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ), Kiev 1987 online ( Memento on the Internet from May 18, 2003 )
- ↑ in a document from Vytautas 1416