Romodanovsky family

Princely arms of the family

The House of Romodanovsky (Russian: Ромодановские) was a Russian noble family descending from sovereign rulers of Starodub-on-the-Klyazma.^{[citation needed]} Their progenitor was Prince Vasily Fyodorovich Starodubsky (Василий Фёдорович Стародубский) who changed his name to Romodanovsky after his votchina (estate) of Romodanovo.^{[citation needed]} They claimed descent from the Rurikids.^{[citation needed]} Although the family was one of the first Rurikids to enter the service of the prince of Moscow,^{[citation needed]} it was in the 17th century that they finally rose to the highest ranks of Muscovite Russia.^{[citation needed]}

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]}

External links

• Prosopography of the Romodanovsky family