Principality of Pinsk

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The Principality of Pinsk (Russian Пи́нское кня́жество ) was a principality around the Pinsk Castle from 1174 to 1556 in what is now western Belarus .

history

Pinsk Castle was first mentioned in 1097. It was in the Principality of Turow . In 1174, Prince of Pinsk took part in a procession from Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky to Kiev . As the first Prince of Pinsk was Yaroslav Yuryevich , son of Prince Yuri Yaroslavich of Turow, at a train Russian princes against the Polovtsian mentioned 1,183th His brother Yaropolk Jurjewitsch appears on the occasion of his wedding in 1190 as Prince von Pinsk. In the following years the princes of Pinsk were named a few times in the wake of the princes of Halitsch-Volhynia . In 1229 Prince Vladimir was involved in the defense of Brest against the incursion of the Yatvingers . At that time, many Lithuanians fled to Pinsk and Volhynia . For 1247 Prince Mikhail was mentioned in fighting against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . In 1263, after the death of his father, Grand Duke Mindaugas , the Lithuanian Prince Vaišelga fled to Pinsk. A year later, with their support, he became Lithuanian Grand Prince.

In 1319 the Principality of Pinsk came to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania .

After 1556 the principality was converted into a Starostei , since 1565/66 in the Powiat Pinsk in the Brest Voivodeship in Poland-Lithuania .

territory

The principality was in the area of ​​the upper Pripyat and its tributaries Jasselda , Pina , Styr and Geryn .

Prince of Pinsk

  • Yaroslav Yurievich (1183)
  • Yaropolk Yuryevich (1190)
  • Vladimir (1204)
  • Rostislaw (1226/1227)
  • Vladimir (1229)
  • Mikhail (1247)
  • Fyodor Vladimirovich (1262)
  • Demir Vladimirovich (1262)
  • Yuri Vladimirovich (1262)
  • Narimantas (1340-1348), son of Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania
  • Mikalojus ( Michael ) (1348-), son of Narimantas
  • Vasilis
  • Jurgis ( Juri ) (-1392)
  • Sigismund I , Grand Duke of Lithuania
  • Maria Gasztołda (1471–1501), widow of Simeon Olelkowicz , Prince of Kiev
  • Fyodor Ivanovich Yaroslavich (1501–1521), son-in-law of Maria Gasztołda
  • Bona Sforza (1521–1556), wife of King Sigismund I of Poland
  • Sigismund II August , King of Poland (1556)

literature

  • PF Lyssenka: Пінскае княства ( Principality of Pinsk ), Вялікае Княства Літоўскае ( Grand Duchy of Lithuania ) in: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя імя П. Броўкі ( Belarusian Encyclopedia ), Minsk 2005. Vol. 1, p. 433ff. ISBN 985-11-0314-4
  • PF Lyssenka: Древний Пинск XI — XIII вв ( Old Russian Pinsk ) Minsk 1997