Person:Andrey of Staritsa (1)

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Andrey of Staritsa
b.5 Aug 1490
d.11 Dec 1537
  1. Helena of Moscow1476 - 1513
  2. Vasili III of Russia1479 - 1533
  3. Yury Ivanovich1480 - 1536
  4. Dimitri Ivanovitch of Russia1481 - 1521
  5. Simeon of Russia1487 - 1518
  6. Andrey of Staritsa1490 - 1537
  1. Vladimir of Staritsa1533 - 1569
Facts and Events
Name Andrey of Staritsa
Gender Male
Birth[1] 5 Aug 1490
Marriage to Euphrosinia Andreyevna Khovanskaya
Death[1] 11 Dec 1537
Reference Number? Q1096005?


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Andrey Ivanovich (August 5, 1490 – December 11, 1537) was the youngest son of Ivan III of Russia the Great by Sophia Palaiologina of Byzantium. Since 1519, his appanages included Volokolamsk and Staritsa.

When his elder brother Vasily III ascended the throne, Andrey was just 14. Like his other brothers, he was forbidden to marry until Vasily could produce an heir. This didn't come to pass until 1530, but it was only two years later, when Vasily's second son was born, that Andrey was finally allowed to find himself a wife. Several months later, on February 2, 1533, he married a Gedyminid Princess, Euphrosinia Andreyevna Khovanskaya. Their only child, Vladimir, was born later that year.

Next month, however, Vasily died. After 40 days of mourning, Andrey applied to his widow Elena Glinskaya for extension of his demesnes. Elena denied him that favour and Andrey departed for Staritsa in anger. There he heard that his only living brother, Yury Ivanovich, had been taken to prison and died there. It is only natural that he declined Elena's emphatic invitations to visit Moscow and lived in Staritsa in seclusion for three following years. He built there a fine cathedral, which still stands.

In 1537, however, it was rumoured that Andrey was going to escape to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Upon hearing the news, Elena closed the Lithuanian border and dispatched her minion, Prince Obolensky, to seize him. Andrey escaped to Novgorod, where he persuaded local nobility to join his cause. Reluctant to appeal to arms, however, he surrendered to the mercy of Obolensky. At Moscow, he was tried and thrown into prison with all his family. He died several months later and was succeeded in Staritsa by his son Vladimir.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Andrey of Staritsa, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.