Maria of Tver explained

Consort:yes
Maria Borisovna
Succession:Grand Princess consort of Moscow
Reign:28 March 1462 – 22 April 1467
Successor:Sophia Palaiologina
Predecessor:Maria of Borovsk
Spouse:Ivan III of Russia
Issue:Ivan Ivanovich
House:Rurik
Father:Boris of Tver
Birth Place:Tver
Death Date:22 April 1467
Death Place:Moscow
Burial Place:Ascension Convent, Kolomenskoye
Archangel Cathedral, Kremlin (1929)
Religion:Russian Orthodox

Maria Borisovna of Tver (Russian: Мария Борисовна; 1442 – 22 April 1467) was the grand princess of Moscow as the first wife of Ivan III from 1462 until her death in 1467.[1] [2] [3] She was the daughter of Boris of Tver.[4]

Biography

When Vasili II, Ivan III's father, was getting ready to attack Dmitry Shemyaka, he found an ally in the person of Boris of Tver. The two decided to seal the alliance by arranging a betrothal between the future Ivan III and Maria of Tver in 1452. It appears that she died from poisoning in 1467. However, if one is to believe Joseph Volotsky, she had been suffering from "infirmity" since childhood. She gave birth to Ivan the Young in 1458.

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Notes and References

  1. Reinventing the Russian Monarchy in the 1550s: Ivan the Terrible, the Dynasty, and the Church, Sergei Bogatyrev, The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 85, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), 278 note 29.
  2. Book: Auty . Robert . Obolensky . Dimitri . Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 1: An Introduction to Russian History . 1976 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-28038-9 . 96 . en.
  3. Book: Langer . Lawrence N. . Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia . 15 September 2021 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1-5381-1942-6 . 84 . en.
  4. Appanage and Muscovite Russia, Nikolay Andreyev, Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 1: An Introduction to Russian History, ed. Robert Auty, Dimitri Obolensky, (Cambridge University Press, 1991), 90.