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Principality of Novosil
Origins
After Mikhail of Chernigov was killed at Batu's camp in 1246, his lands were divided among his sons. Semyon Mikhailovich received Glukhov and Novosil on the upper Oka, and Novosil became the senior seat of a group of small principalities known as the Upper Oka principalities.
Rule and society
These were frontier lands, open to raids from the steppe and the Golden Horde. Novosil itself was ruined in the 14th century, and the princes moved their seat to Odoyev, so the line became known as the Odoyevsky. Related branches ruled Belyov and Vorotynsk. They usually served the Grand Duchy of Lithuania while bargaining with Moscow.
Decline and legacy
In the late 15th century the Upper Oka princes went over to Ivan III, and the peace of 1494 between Moscow and Lithuania confirmed their lands as part of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. The Odoyevsky and Vorotynsky princes became prominent Russian nobles.
Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.
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- Principality of Novosil was a vassal of Grand Duchy of Lithuania1427 CE – 1494 CE
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