Romodanovsky family

thumb|Princely arms of the family {{Multiple issues| {{one source|date=December 2024}} {{nofootnotes|date=December 2024}} {{no original research|date=December 2024}} {{gng|date=December 2024}} }} The '''House of Romodanovsky''' ({{langx|ru|Ромодановские}}) was a Russian noble family descending from sovereign rulers of Starodub-on-the-Klyazma.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} Their progenitor was Prince '''Vasily Fyodorovich Starodubsky''' (Василий Фёдорович Стародубский) who changed his name to '''Romodanovsky''' after his ''votchina'' (estate) of Romodanovo.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} They claimed descent from the Rurikids.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} Although the family was one of the first Rurikids to enter the service of the prince of Moscow,{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} it was in the 17th century that they finally rose to the highest ranks of Muscovite Russia.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

== Early members ==

Among Vasily's sons, one was Ivan III's okolnichi, another sat in the Boyar Duma during Vasily III's reign. Their nephew was sent by Ivan the Terrible as a Russian ambassador to Copenhagen. The latter's nephew, Prince Ivan Petrovich Romodanovsky, was killed by the Kalmucks on his way from Persia in 1607.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

==External links== *[http://www.genealogia.ru/users/rurik/Rospisi/Romodan.htm Prosopography of the Romodanovsky family]

Category:Romodanovsky family