Narimantas
Narimantas or Narymunt (baptized Gleb; 1277 or just before 1300 (according to Wasilewski 1992) – 2 February 1348) was the second eldest son of
About 1338, the
Narimantas supported his brother
He took baptism in 1333 in or before Veliki Novgorod. This made him ineligible to succeed his father as ruler of Lithuanians, despite his primogeniture right.[4]
Sons
It is believed that Narimantas had five sons:[5]
- Aleksander (died after 1386), Prince of Podolia
- Yury (died in 1392), Prince of Belz
- Nikolai, Prince of Pinsk
- Patrikas (died ca. 1387), Prince of Starodub-Seversky
- Simeon (died after 1386)
The Polish genealogist and historian Józef Puzyna (see Dr. Jozef ks. Puzyna, article series on Narimantas, in: Miesiecznik Heraldyczny, 1930–31) refutes strongly the claim that Narimantas' progeny would have been born of a Tatar wife. He advances a hypothesis that the names of Narimantas' sons indicate that their mother was an Orthodox Ruthenian lady.
Other genealogists give as his wife Marija, daughter of
See also
- Family of Gediminas – family tree of Narimantas
- Gediminids
References
- ^ ISBN 5-420-01535-8.
- ISBN 9780521450119.
- ^ Rowell, C. S. Lithuania Ascending, 114
- ^ sources: T.Wasilewski, 1992
- ^ Rowell, C. S. Lithuania Ascending, xxxii
- 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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