Prince Ivan Vasilievich Gorensky (d. 1562) - boyar and governor .
Rurikovich in the 20th knee, the only son of Prince Vasily Konstantinovich Obolensky.
Biography
On January 28, 1526, Prince I.V. Gorensky was mentioned at the wedding of Grand Duke Vasily Ivanovich and Elena Glinsky - he carried a cow, was at bedside and carried a second candle.
In 1535 he was governor, sent to Lithuania near Lubech : he burned a prison there, killed and captured many people near the city and in various areas of Lithuania.
In 1539 - the governor of the guard regiment on the Ugra, then on Kolomna. In 1542, the second governor of the right hand in Kaluga. In 1543, in the Kazan rank, the first governor of the guard regiment in Vladimir. In July 1544 the voivode stood on Ryazan outside the city. In 1547, the governor of Kaluga, was there as a regimental governor of the front regiment. In 1549 the governor in Pochep and from 1550 to 1564 the governor in Kaluga . In 1550, from Kaluga, I article was expelled to the Moscow nobility. In 1555, in Sviyazhsk, he was a friend of Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Vorotynsky . In 1555 he was granted the boyar. In 1556, in the absence of Tsar Ivan IV, he remained in Moscow for protection, and in 1557 he was appointed, among other boyars, to be under Prince Yuri Vasilievich , brother of the sovereign. He died in 1562.
Family
The name of the wife of Prince I.V. Gorensky is not known. Children:
- Prince Peter Ivanovich Gorensky (d. 1565), a market leader, voivode and Kravchik. He was executed by Ivan the Terrible. After him, the widow of Princess Elena Gorenskaya remained, there were no children.
- Prince Yuri Ivanovich Gorensky, after his brother was executed, fled to Lithuania. The last representative of the family of princes Gorensky .
Literature
Vlasyev G.A. Offspring of Rurik. Materials for the compilation of the pedigree. - SPb. , 1906. - T. 1. Chernigov princes. Part 2. S. 448