Maria Borisovna
Wedding of Maria and Ivan III, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible
Grand Princess consort of Moscow
Tenure28 March 1462 – 22 April 1467
PredecessorMaria of Borovsk
SuccessorSophia Palaiologina
Bornc. 1442
Tver
Died22 April 1467
Moscow
Burial
Ascension Convent, Kolomenskoye
Archangel Cathedral, Kremlin (1929)
SpouseIvan III of Russia
IssueIvan Ivanovich
HouseRurik
FatherBoris of Tver
ReligionRussian 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.[4] 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.

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. ↑ Auty, Robert; Obolensky, Dimitri (1976). Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 1: An Introduction to Russian History. Cambridge University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-521-28038-9.
  3. ↑ Langer, Lawrence N. (15 September 2021). Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-5381-1942-6.
  4. 1 2 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.
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