Penkow (noble family)

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Penkow or Penkow-Jaroslawski ( Russian Пеньковы-Ярославские ) was a Russian aristocratic family of Rurikid origin. It was formed as a branch of the princes of Yaroslavl and went back to Danilo Alexandrowitsch Penko , a voivode of the Moscow Grand Duke Ivan III. The noble family Penkow had a great influence especially in the first half of the 16th century .

literature

Andreas Thiele: Narrative genealogical family tables on European history . 2nd subband. 2nd Edition. RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-89406-691-1 , p. 316, online .