| Principality of Pronsk Пронское княжество | |||||
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| Capital | Pronsk | ||||
| Government | Principality | ||||
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| - | Established | 1129 | |||
| - | Disestablished | c1430 | |||
The principality of Pronsk is a Russian appanage of the 12th - 16th centuries , originally part of the Principality of Murom and then the Grand Principality of Ryazan.
History[]
The first prince of Pronsk was the son of Yaroslav Svyatoslavich of Murom, Rostislav ( 1129 - 1143). After his death at the Ryazan reign of Vladimir Svyatoslavich ( 1161 ) and the consolidation of his descendants in the Murom Principality, Pronsk began to belong to the Ryazan prince Gleb Rostislavich , and after his death his eldest son Roman had to give Pronsk to younger brothers under pressure from Vsevolod the Big Nest ( 1180 ). The son of one of the younger Glebovichs Gleb Vladimirovich in 1217 dealt with cousins at the Council of Isad, and with 1219 in Ryazan and Pronsk the sons of one of the senior Glebovichi Igor were established . The Mongol invasion of Russia in 1237 began with the ruin of the Principality of Pronsk. In the struggle against the Mongols, many Princes of Ryazan were killed, and Pronsk again became the center of the principality under Yaroslav Romanovich (from 1270 ).
Alelsandr, the founder of a separate Pronsk dynasty, was killed Ryazan Prince Ivan Korotopolom during self smuggle tribute Horde Khan ( 1339 ), that was the prerogative of the Grand Princes [1] . From the reign of his grandson Vladimir, the epoch begins, when princes prince were titled as great . Vladimir and his son Ivan temporarily occupied the Ryazan throne. The troops of the Principalitu of Pronsk participated in the victories over the Golden Horde in the Battle of the Shishev Forest (1365) and the Battle of the Vozha River (1378), in which the Prince of Pronsk commanded one of the three Russian regiments.
In 1430, during the regency of Sophia Vitovtovna in Moscow, Ivan Vladimirovich Pronsky recognized the supreme power of the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Vytautas. In the period 1453 - 1483 prince princedom was annexed to the Ryazan prince, later prince princes are mentioned in the Lithuanian service, in the beginning of the XVI century - in Moscow .