Principality of Trubetsk
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The Principality of Trubetsk (Russian: Трубецкое княжество) was a small, landlocked Rus' principality in Eastern Europe. In the later middle ages it was bordered by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to its west and by Muscovy to its east. The Principality of Trubetsk was a principality within modern Bryansk Oblast, about 50 miles (80 kilometres) southwest of Bryansk. A sub-principality under Principality of Novgorod-Seversk, it was elevated to the status of independent principality 1164 – 1196, 1202 – 1211, 1212 – 1240, 1357 – 1566.[citation needed]
The Trubetsk town was found in the era of vikings.[citation needed] The official date of town foundation is 975.[citation needed] It referred in a great Old East Slavic poem, The Tale of Igor's Campaign. This poem called the princes of the Rus' lands to join forces to resist the approaching Tatar invasion. This poem also glorified the courage of army of Vsevolod Svyatoslavich, the Prince of Trubetsk and of Kursk.
Inhabitants of Trubetsk were famous for their bravery in military actions. In 1185 the Trubetsk army fought against Cumans (the common name of the nomadic tribes, who made a plundering raids to the lands of the Rus'. That war was described in The Tale of Igor's Campaign.
In 1239, after the Mongol invasion of Rus, the Principality of Trubetsk passed to the Princes of Bryansk, and then to the Princes of Trubetsk. In 1566 Ivan IV the Terrible took the principality during the Livonian War. In 1609 Vasili IV of Russia had to relinquish it to The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618). In 1648 Bogdan Khmelnytsky told the people that the Poles had sold them as slaves "into the hands of the accursed Jews". With this as their battle-cry, the Cossacks killed a large number of Jews (estimated at 100,000 to 200,000) during the years 1648 – 1649 (Polish-Cossack War). In 1654 Prince Aleksey Trubetskoy on the side of Alexis I of Russia led the southern flank of the Muscovian army from Bryansk to Ukraine. The territory between the Dniepr and Berezyna was overrun quickly, with Aleksy Trubetsky taking Mstsislaw (Mstislavl) and Roslavl. In 1654 The Principality of Trubetsk was finally conquered by Aleksy Trubetsky, Prince of Trubetsk himself, as a result of the Russo-Polish War (1654-1667).
[edit] Ruling princes
- Svyatoslav (at Velikiy Novgorod in 1232)..........1212 - 12 ? d. aft. 1232
- Under The Golden Horde control.........................1240 - 1357
- Gediminids of Trubetsk
- Demetrius I Starshy (also at Bryansk)....1357 - 1379 † 1399
- Andrey Dmitriyevich...................................1379 - 1399
- Mikhail of Trubetsk..................................1399 - 15th century
- Semen of Trubetsk (also at Svislach 1366 – 14??)....15th century – after 1411 (½ of the principality)
- Yuri Mikhailovich of Trubetsk..................................15th century — 1445 (½ of the principality) † after 1445
- Ivan of Trubetsk....after 1411 – before 1499 (½ of the principality) † 16th century
- Wolowicz
- Ivan Vasilyevich of Chertoryysk...........................before 1489 (1462?) - 1489 (½ of the principality)
- Andrey Ivanovich Trubetskoy...................................before 1499 – 16 May 1546 (⅓ of ½ of the principality)
- Ivan Ivanovich Trubetskoy...................................before 1499 – 1538 (⅓ of ½ of the principality)
- Fyodor Trubetskoy...................................before 1499 – 1540 (⅓ of ½ of the principality)
- Ivan Yuryevich Trubetskoy..................................1499 – 1500, 1503-15 January 1520 (½ of the principality)
- Semen Ivanovich Trubetskoy...................................15 January 1520 – 20 January 1566 (¼ of the principality)
- Semen-Bogdan Aleksandrovich Trubetskoy...................................15 January 1520 — ca 1543 (¼ of the principality)
- Mikhail Andreyevich Trubetskoy...................................16 May 1546 – 5 December 1556 (½ of the principality)
- To Muscovian Tsardom........................................20 January 1566
- To Rzeczpospolita........................................1609
- Wigund-Jeronym Trubetsky....1611 - 1634 (under authority of Rzeczpospolita)
- Aleksey Trubetskoy....1634 – 1645 (under authority of Rzeczpospolita) † 1680
- The Deluge (Khmelnytsky Uprising)......................1648
- To Muscovian Tsardom........................................1654
