Patrikas, prince of Starodub & Zwenihorod

Separated from parents because he would have been born before his parents

Patrycy (Russian: Патрикей) was a grandson (or great grandson) of Gediminas who exchanged his lands in and near Starodub in Siveria for the Korela and Oreshek fortresses in the Novgorod Republic. He also founded the town of Yamburg in Ingria. His male line descendants include the Galitzine, Kurakin, and Khovansky princely houses of Russia.

Patrycy was born about 1340. He died after 1408, which is the date he is mentioned in sources last time. Genealogical literature usually reports that his mother was a khatun from the Crimea. An 18th-century author claims that her father was khan Tokhta, Batu Khan's great-grandson, and her mother was Maria Palaiologina, a bastard daughter of Andronikos II Palaiologos. Patrycy's wife was named Helena (see ES by Schwennicke; and Ikonnikov).

In the 1380s, Patrycy arrived to Novgorod to claim the inheritance of his father, Aleksander Hlebowicz. He was ceded the fiefs of Korela, Oreshek, Koporye, Luga, and Ladoga. He held practically all the "Votian land" as a fief from the Novgorod Republic. The Novgorodians kept the lands of Patrycy as a sort of buffer state between their republic and Sweden (see Swedish-Novgorodian Wars). Patrycy helped fortify the northwestern borders of the trade republic and built the fortress of Yam in the Luga district.

Europaeus (1859) reports that the commoners folks of Karelia still remembered their former Lithuanian rulers: "These Lithuanians held long ago the land of Karelia under their dominion, and it is still remembered by the local folks. It is said they had a treasury barn in Ilomantsi, a building with iron doors, where they stored their tax revenues. And there is a tale that during a retreat from a robbing expedition to the borders by these Lithuanians, their one boat, full of silver, wrecked and drowned in Suojärvi."

In 1386, Patrycy helped defend Veliki Novgorod and its territories against the attacks of Dmitry Donskoy, ruler of Moscow, who held Patrycy responsible for inciting the ushkuiniki (pirate) raids along the Volga River. Two years later, the Novgorodian government (probably under pressure from Moscow) gave the fiefs of Ladoga and Russa to another Lithuanian princeling, Lengvenis, son of Olgierd. Patrycy continued to rule Korela. In 1396 he went to Veliki Novgorod in order to meet Yuri of Smolensk.

In 1408, the elderly duke Patrycy, accompanied by his younger sons, George and Theodore, was ceremoniously welcomed in Moscow by its ruler Vasili I (himself son of Dimitri Donskoi). George married Vasili I's daughter and was made his trusted advisor. Duke Patrycy's descendants (such as Daniil Shchenya and Vassian Patrikeyev) actually held, during several generations afterwards, estates in the Votian fifth and in the region of Pskov.

Sources and external links:

• Ikonnikov, Nicolas F.: La noblesse de Russie part C
• Schwennicke, Detlev: Europaische Stammtafeln : Stammtafeln zur geschichte der europaischen staaten.Neue Folge Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln, vol III/1. Verlag von J. A. Stargardt
• Cawley, Charles, Medieval Lands Project, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,
• Русский биографический словарь Russki biografitšeski slovar, by Alexander Polovtsov, 1896–1918
• A.J. Europaeus, 1859, Karjalan ajan-tiedot Täysinän rauhaan asti, vuonna 1595, Aschan [www = http://www.salakirjat.net/karjalan_ajan-tiedot.html (in Finnish)]
• Chronicle of Novgorod (in Russian)
• Sjöström (2011), Liettuan gediminidien suomensukuiset geneettiset juuret. ISSN 1239-3487, Donelaitis – Donelaitis-seuran, Liettuan Ystävät ryn lehti 1/2011, ss 16..18

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Patrikey Glebovich or Patrikas Narimantaitis (Russian: Патрикей Глебович, Finnish: Patrika Narimantinpoika) was a grandson (or great-grandson) of Gediminas who exchanged his lands in and near Starodub in Siveria for the Korela and Oreshek fortresses in the Novgorod Republic. He also founded the town of Yamskaya krepost (fortress) of Yamburg (now Kingisepp) near Pskov. His male line descendants include the Golitsyn, Kurakin, and Khovansky princely houses of Russia.

Life

Patrikas was born around 1340 and died after 1408, which is the last time he is mentioned in any source. Genealogical literature usually reports that his mother was a Khatun from Crimea. An 18th-century author claims that her father was Khan Tokhta, Batu Khan's great-grandson, and her mother was Maria Palaiologina, an illegitimate daughter of Andronikos II Palaiologos. Patrikas's wife was named Helena (see ES by Schwennicke and Ikonnikov).

In 19th-century genealogical literature about him, there has arisen a controversy about who Patrikas' father was: Duke Narimantas or his son, Duke Alexander Narimontovich. Some 19th-century Russian literature chose to report Alexander as the father, whereas 20th-century standard literature such as Ikonnikov and Europäische Stammtafeln continue to report Narimantas as Patrikas' father. The source authored closer to the lifetime of Patrikas himself, in the 14th–15th centuries, namely the chronicle of Novgorod, explicitly calls him Patrika son of Narimant when reporting his holding of castles in 1383–1384.

In the 1380s, Patrikas arrived in Novgorod to claim his father Narimantas's inheritance. He was ceded the fiefs of Karelia, Oreshek, Koporye, Luga, and Ladoga. He held practically all the "Votian land" as a fief from the Novgorod Republic. The Novgorodians kept the lands of Patrikas as a sort of buffer state between their republic and Sweden (see Swedish-Novgorodian Wars). Patrikas helped fortify the northwestern borders of the trade republic and built the fortress of Yam in the Luga district.

Europaeus (1859) reports that the commoners of Karelia still remembered their former Lithuanian rulers: "These Lithuanians held long ago the land of Karelia under their dominion, and the local folks still remember it. They said they had a treasury barn in Ilomantsi, a building with iron doors, where they stored their tax revenues. And there is a tale that during a retreat from a robbing expedition to the borders by these Lithuanians, their one boat, full of silver, wrecked and drowned in Suojärvi."

In 1386, Patrikas helped defend Veliki Novgorod and its territories against the attacks of Dmitry Donskoy, ruler of Moscow, who held Patrikas responsible for inciting the ushkuiniki (pirate) raids along the Volga River. Two years later, the Novgorodian government (probably under pressure from Moscovia) gave the fiefs of Ladoga and Russa to another Lithuanian princeling, Lengvenis, son of Algirdas. Patrikas continued to rule Karelia. In 1396, he went to Veliki Novgorod to meet Duke Yuri of Smolensk.

In 1408, the elderly Duke Patrikas, accompanied by his younger sons, George and Theodore, was ceremoniously welcomed in Moscow by its ruler Vasili I (son of Dmitry Donskoy). George married Vasili I's daughter and was made his trusted advisor. Several generations of Duke Patrikas' descendants (such as Daniil Shchenya and Vassian Patrikeyev) held estates in the Votian Fifth and the Pskov region.

Sources and external links:

• Ikonnikov, Nicolas F.: La noblesse de Russie part C
• Schwennicke, Detlev: Europaische Stammtafeln : Stammtafeln zur geschichte der europaischen staaten. Neue Folge Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln, vol III/1. Verlag von J. A. Stargardt
• Русский биографический словарь Russki biografitšeski slovar, by Alexander Polovtsov, 1896–1918
• A.J. Europaeus, 1859, Karjalan ajan-tiedot Täysinän rauhaan asti, vuonna 1595, Aschan https://archive.today/20121208230953/http://www.salakirjat.net/karj... (in Finnish)
• (in Russian)
• Chronicle of Novgorod
• Sjöström (2011), Liettuan gediminidien suomens

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Starodub (Russian: Староду́б, lit. old oak) is a town in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Babinets River (the Dnieper basin). Starodub has been known since the 11th century as part of Severia. It was burned to the ground by the Mongols in the 13th century. It became a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century, and later, it was within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. From 1503–1618, Starodub was a part of the Grand Duchy of Moscovia and then the Kingdom of Poland until 1648. During the Khmelnytskyi Uprising, it became the center of the Starodub Cossack Regiment and enjoyed considerable autonomy between 1666 and 1686.

Патрикей — удельный князь Стародубский из рода Гедиминовичей.

Патрикей Наримунтович - (умер после 1408) — удельный князь из рода Гедиминовичей. Служилый князь Новгородской республики литовского происхождения. В польских родословцах XVIII века его матерью называют дочь хана Тохты.

Биография

Внук или правнук великого князя литовского Гедимина.

В 1383—1386 годах и с 1398 года Патрикей был княжеским наместником Великого княжества Литовского в Новгороде, куда прибыл по приглашению боярского совета и был принят с большими почестями, получил в кормление города: Орехов, Корелу, а также село Лужское.

В 1384 году князь Патрикей расширил владения вдоль Ревельской дороги на запад и этим получил в управление всё южное побережье Финского залива до реки Нарвы.

Когда в 1386 году Дмитрий Донской собрался в поход на Новгород за разбои местных ушкуйников на торговых путях, которые происходили не без влияния Патрикея и других князей, новгородские жители, вероятно, по требованию Дмитрия, в 1388 году забрали у Патрикея Ладогу и Руссу и передали их другому литовскому князю — Лугвению Ольгердовичу.

В 1408 году Патрикей выехал на службу к московскому князю Василию I.

Сыновья

Информация о потомках Патрикея содержится в «Бархатной книге»: «… А у Нариманта былъ сынъ Князь Патрекей. А у Князя Патрекея были 3 сына. Князь Федоръ; отъ него пошли Хованские. Князь Юрьи, была за нимъ дочь Великаго Князя Васильева; отъ него пошли Булгаковы, Щенятевы, Куракины, Голицыны. Князь Александро; отъ него пошли Корецкие…».

В ранней историографии отождествляется с Патрикеем Давыдовичем стародубским (Северской земли), упомянутом в Любецком синодике в таком качестве. На этом основании Патрикей Наримунтович считается отцом Александра Патрикеевича стародубского. Новые исследователи отмечают, что имя Наримунта в крещении было Глеб, а не Давыд, а Давыд был совершенно отдельным князем, служившим на западных рубежах Литвы против крестоносцев.