# Patrikas > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Patrikas > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Patrikas.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrikas > Source revision: 1353075757 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) [[File:Патрикей Наримунтович прибывает в Новгород.png|thumb|Patrikas arrives in Novgorod, miniature from the [Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible](/source/Illustrated_Chronicle_of_Ivan_the_Terrible) (16th century)]] [[File:Korela Fort.JPG|thumb|300px|The [Korela Fortress](/source/Korela_Fortress) was built by Patrikas and his father on the bank of the [Vuoksi River](/source/Vuoksi_River)]] '''Patrikey Glebovich''' or '''Patrikas Narimantaitis''' ({{langx|ru|Патрикей Глебович}}) was a grandson (or great-grandson) of [Gediminas](/source/Gediminas) who exchanged his lands in and near [Starodub](/source/Starodub) in [Siveria](/source/Siveria) for the [Korela](/source/Korela_Fortress) and [Oreshek](/source/Oreshek) fortresses in the [Novgorod Republic](/source/Novgorod_Republic). He also founded the town of [Yamskaya krepost (Yamburg)](/source/Yamburg) (now Kingisepp) near [Pskov](/source/Pskov). His male line descendants include the [Golitsyns](/source/House_of_Golitsyn), [Kurakins](/source/Kurakins), and {{ill|House of Khovansky|lt=Khovansky|ru|Хованские}} princely houses of Russia. == Life == Patrikas was born sometime around 1340 and died after 1408, which is the last time he is mentioned in any source. Genealogical literature usually reports that his mother was a [khatun](/source/khatun) from [Crimea](/source/Crimea). An 18th-century author claims that her father was khan [Tokhta](/source/Tokhta), [Batu Khan](/source/Batu_Khan)'s great-grandson, and her mother was Maria Palaiologina, a bastard daughter of [Andronikos II Palaiologos](/source/Andronikos_II_Palaiologos). Patrikas' wife was named Helena (see ES by Schwennicke; and Ikonnikov). In 19th century genealogical literature about him there has arisen a controversy as to who was Patrikas' father: was he a son of [Narimantas](/source/Narimantas), or a son of Alexander, himself a son of Narimantas. Some 19th century Russian literature chose to report Alexander as the father, whereas 20th century standard literature such as Ikonnikov and [Europäische Stammtafeln](/source/Europ%C3%A4ische_Stammtafeln) continue to report Narimantas as Patrikas' father. The source authored closer to the lifetime of Patrikas himself, in the 14th–15th centuries, namely the [chronicle of Novgorod](/source/Novgorod_First_Chronicle), explicitly calls him Patrika son of Narimant when reporting his holding of castles in 1383–1384. In the 1380s, Patrikas arrived to [Novgorod](/source/Novgorod) to claim the inheritance of his father, [Narimantas](/source/Narimantas). He was ceded the fiefs of [Korela](/source/Korela_Fortress), [Oreshek](/source/Oreshek), [Koporye](/source/Koporye), [Luga](/source/Luga%2C_Leningrad_Oblast), and [Ladoga](/source/Staraya_Ladoga). He held practically all the "[Votian land](/source/Votian_fifth)" as a [fief](/source/fief) from the [Novgorod Republic](/source/Novgorod_Republic). The Novgorodians kept the lands of Patrikas as a sort of [buffer state](/source/buffer_state) between their republic and [Sweden](/source/Sweden) (see [Swedish-Novgorodian Wars](/source/Swedish-Novgorodian_Wars)). Patrikas helped fortify the northwestern borders of the trade republic and built the fortress of [Yam](/source/Kingisepp) in the Luga district. Europaeus (1859) reports that the commoners of Karelia still remembered their former Lithuanian rulers: "These Lithuanians held long ago the land of Karelia under their dominion, and it is still remembered by the local folks. It is said they had a treasury barn in [Ilomantsi](/source/Ilomantsi), a building with iron doors, where they stored their tax revenues. And there is a tale that during a retreat from a robbing expedition to the borders by these Lithuanians, their one boat, full of silver, wrecked and drowned in [Suojärvi](/source/Suoj%C3%A4rvi)." In 1386, Patrikas helped defend Veliki Novgorod and its territories against the attacks of [Dmitry Donskoy](/source/Dmitry_Donskoy), ruler of Moscow, who held Patrikas responsible for inciting the [ushkuiniki](/source/ushkuiniki) (pirate) raids along the [Volga River](/source/Volga_River). Two years later, the Novgorodian government (probably under pressure from Moscow) gave the fiefs of [Ladoga](/source/Novaya_Ladoga) and [Russa](/source/Staraya_Russa) to another Lithuanian princeling, [Lengvenis](/source/Lengvenis), son of [Algirdas](/source/Algirdas). Patrikas continued to rule Korela. In 1396 he went to Veliki Novgorod in order to meet [Yuri of Smolensk](/source/Yuri_of_Smolensk). In 1408, the elderly duke Patrikas, accompanied by his younger sons, George and Theodore, was ceremoniously welcomed in [Moscow](/source/Moscow) by its ruler [Vasili I](/source/Vasili_I) (himself son of Dimitri Donskoi). George married [Vasili I's](/source/Vasily_I_of_Moscow) daughter and was made his trusted advisor. Duke Patrikas' descendants (such as [Daniil Shchenya](/source/Daniil_Shchenya) and [Vassian Patrikeyev](/source/Vassian_Patrikeyev)) actually held, during several generations afterwards, estates in the Votian [fifth](/source/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Novgorod_Republic) and in the region of [Pskov](/source/Pskov). == Sources and external links == * Ikonnikov, Nicolas F.: ''La noblesse de Russie'' part C * Schwennicke, Detlev: ''Europaische Stammtafeln : Stammtafeln zur geschichte der europaischen staaten. Neue Folge Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln'', vol III/1. Verlag von J. A. Stargardt * [http://www.rulex.ru/01160172.htm Русский биографический словарь Russki biografitšeski slovar, by Alexander Polovtsov, 1896–1918] * A.J. Europaeus, 1859, Karjalan ajan-tiedot Täysinän rauhaan asti, vuonna 1595, Aschan [www = https://archive.today/20121208230953/http://www.salakirjat.net/karjalan_ajan-tiedot.html (in Finnish)] * [http://rusgenealog.ru/index.php?id=gen_table&table_id=gen_lt_3 (in Russian)] * Chronicle of Novgorod * Sjöström (2011), Liettuan gediminidien suomensukuiset geneettiset juuret. ISSN 1239-3487, Donelaitis – Donelaitis-seuran, Liettuan Ystävät ryn lehti 1/2011, ss 16..18 {{more footnotes|date=September 2011}} Category:1340s births Category:15th-century deaths Category:Gediminids Category:14th-century Lithuanian nobility Category:15th-century Lithuanian nobility --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Patrikas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrikas) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrikas?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.