Федір Ольгердович, князь кобринський, ратенський та жидачевський

ENThe article is devoted to the biography of Prince Fiodor Olgerdovich. For this article the scarce information from all resources was used and the historiography was analyzed. Fiodor was the fifth son of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Olgerd Gediminas, the youngest child, born from Olgerd Gediminas’s first wife, Princess Mary of Vitebsk. He was born around 1330. Fiodor received Kobrin in the northwest Volyn from his father. That is mentioned as the possession of Olgerd in 1366. Fiodor was first mentioned in 1377, when, during a campaign of Louis of Anjou, King of Hungary and Poland, against Volyn, he, together with two adult sons, submitted to his authority. Louis of Anjou wrote about this in a letter to Louis F. Carrara, the ruler of the Italian city of Padua, calling the Lithuanian prince, allegedly the eldest son and the heir of Olgerd, with distorted name «Codor». At the same time Louis gave Fiodor some «towns and villages» within the Polish kingdom. Following S. Panyshko, we believe that we are talking about principality in Ratno that borders Kobrin. The Duke of Ratno Fiodor Olgerdas was mentioned in the two documents in 1387 and 1394. Kobrin, which was also preserved in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, was passed to Fiodor’s eldest son Roman. Fiodor owned the principality of Ratno as a direct vassal of the Polish king and, most of all, only on the rights of the lifetime ownership.Another possession of Fiodor in the Polish kingdom was Zhydachiv, the town in Halych Land of Ruthenian Voivodeship. At the beginning of 1404 King Vladislav Jagiello gave Zhidachiv to his other brother, Shvitrigaylo and Roman Fiodorovich at the same time received the confirmation for Kobrin principality from the Grand Duke Vytautas. Therefore, most likely, Fiodor Olgerdovich died in 1403. From his first marriage Fiodor Olgerdovich had two sons, Alexander and Roman, the founder of the Kobrin princes. The existence of Alexander, who went to Moscow service and was killed by the order of the Khan Tokhtamysh before the assault of Moscow in 1382, established only on the basis of Rostov Synodik. From his second marriage Fiodor had two sons – Gurko and Sangushko. Sangushko became the founder of the princely family Sangushko that still exists.