Ivan Fedorovich (Prince of Starodubsky)

Ivan Fedorovich, the second son of Fedor Ivanovich. He occupied the Starodub principality after the death of his older brother Dmitry Fedorovich in 1354 , and the next year he went to the Horde to Khan Chanibek , who approved him for reign. The name of this prince is associated with a fall in the independence of the Starodub inheritance, and at the same time, of its rulers. Ivan Fedorovich was one of those rebellious princes who in every possible way opposed the clear desire of Moscow to swallow all the inheritances, and turn their princes into obedient henchmen, temporarily leaving behind them only the shadow of independent rulers.

On November 13, 1359, Grand Duke Zvenigorod and Moscow Ivan II Red died, and the princely throne was to pass to his nine-year-old son Dimitri (later - Donskoy); the rival of the latter was Prince of Suzdal, Dmitry III Konstantinovich . During the struggle for the grand-ducal table of the two Dimitrians, Moscow and Suzdal, the specific princes whom Moscow pressed to sympathize with the latter clearly or secretly, and some openly sided with the Suzdal prince. John was probably one of the latter, since Dmitry of Moscow (more precisely, his close associates), having brought the princes of Suzdal and Rostov to his will, drove Ivan out of his inheritance ( 1363 ), after which he went to Nizhny Novgorod to Andrei Konstantinovich , who became serving prince. The further fate of Ivan Fedorovich is unknown.

All genealogies are considered to be childless, except for the amateur historian N.G. Golovin, who in his published in 1851 work on the genealogy of Russian princes without giving reasons gives him a son Dmitry and grandson Vasily.

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