Sophia of Lithuania

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Sophia of Lithuania
Roman Catholic

Sophia Vitovtovna of Lithuania (

.

Life

She was the daughter of

. She was the longest serving consort of Russia.

After Vasili's death in 1425 she became regent for their ten-year-old son

.

Sophia was buried in the Ascension Convent; the sarcophagus was moved in 1929 to the Cathedral of the Archangel by Soviet authorities.^[2]

Children

She and

had at least nine children, five boys (of which only one survived to mature adulthood) and four girls:

• Anna of Moscow (1393 – August 1417), wife of John VIII Palaiologos, died of bubonic plague
• Yury Vasilievich (30 March 1395 – 30 November 1400)
• Ivan Vasilievich (15 January 1396 or 1397 – 20 July 1417), died on the way from Kolomna to Moscow as a result of "pestilence", just six months after marrying the daughter of Prince Ivan Vladimirovich of Pronsk and receiving the inheritance of Nizhny Novgorod
• Anastasia Vasilievna (d. 1470), wife of Vladymir Alexander, Prince of
  Kiev. Her husband was a son of Vladymir, Prince of Kiev. His paternal grandparents were Algirdas and Maria of Vitebsk
  .
• Daniil Vasilievich (6 December 1400 – May 1402), died of pestilence
• Vasilisa Vasilievna, wife of Alexander Ivanovich "Brukhaty", Prince of Suzdal, and Alexander Daniilovich "Vzmetenj", Prince of Suzdal.
• Simeon Vasilievich (13 January – 7 April 1405), died of pestilence
• Maria Vasilievna, wife of Yuri Patrikievich. Her husband was a son of Patrikas, Prince of Starodub, and his wife, Helena. His paternal grandfather was Narimantas.
• Vasily II of Moscow (10 March 1415 – 27 March 1462)

References

External links

Sophia of Lithuania Gediminids Born: c. 1371 Died: 1453
Russian royalty
Vacant Title last held by Eudoxia of Moscow	Grand Princess of Moscow 1391–1425	Vacant Title next held by Maria of Borovsk

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