Open AccessThe Marriage of Konstantin Mihkailovich with Sophia Yurievna and its significance in political relations between Moscow and Tver’ in the XIV сentury
Author(s) -
Sergey Navilievich Abukov
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
samarskij naučnyj vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-3016
pISSN - 2309-4370
DOI - 10.17816/snv20162205
Subject(s) - destiny (iss module) , politics , history , period (music) , classics , ancient history , art , law , political science , engineering , aerospace engineering , aesthetics
The article is devoted to the marriage of prince Konstantin Mihkailovich with princess Sophia Yurievna in 1320 and its place in dramatic period relations between Moscow and Tver relations. This family-run alliance between Moscow and Tver, which opened the series of marriages between the two ruling dynasties in the XIV-XV centuries, has not received comprehensive study by historians. The author made an analysis of the reasons and consequences of this marriage, and its influence on policy in Rus in the XIV сentury. The article is devoted to the origin in the maternal line of sons Tver Prince Konstantin Mikhailovichs sons due to tha material line, who ruled in the XIV-th. century and who was married twice. This problem is controversial in scientific literature. The author made the analysis of the available data sets the precedence of Konstantins sons from different marriages and their assumed mothers. Family conflict between the princes of Tver had significant political consequences for the history of the Tver Principality and its subsequent destiny in struggle with Moscow. The author tries to determine their posterity. It is denied that the nobles Poroshins can be the descendants of the princes of Tver, who lost the title.