Patrikas

Patrikas Narimantaitis (Russian: Патрикей Глебович; Finnish: Patrika Narimantinpoika) was a grandson (or great grandson) of Gediminas who exchanged his lands in and near Starodub in Siveria for the Korela and Oreshek fortresses in the Novgorod Republic. He also founded the town of Yamburg in Ingria. His male line descendants include the Galitzine, Kurakin, and Khovansky princely houses of Russia.

Life

Patrikas was born about 1340. He died after 1408, which is the date he is mentioned in sources last time. Genealogical literature usually reports that his mother was a khatun from the Crimea. An 18th-century author claims that her father was khan Tokhta, Batu Khan's great-grandson, and her mother was Maria Palaiologina, a bastard daughter of Andronikos II Palaiologos. Patrikas' wife was named Helena (see ES by Schwennicke; and Ikonnikov).

In the 19th century genealogical literature, there has arisen a controversy who was Patrikas' father: was he a son of Narimantas, or a son of Alexander, himself a son of Narimantas. Some Russian literature chose in the late 19th century to report Alexander as the father, whereas such 20th century standard literature as Ikonnikov and Europäische Stammtafeln continue to report Narimantas as Patrikas' father. The source authored near the lifetime of Patrikas himself, in the 14th–15th centuries, namely the chronicle of Novgorod, explicitly calls him Patrika son of Narimant when reporting his holding of castles in 1383–1384.