Maria of Tver

Maria Borisovna
Wedding of Maria and Ivan III, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible
Grand Princess consort of Moscow
Tenure28 March 1462 – 22 April 1467
PredecessorMaria of Borovsk
SuccessorSophia Palaiologina
Bornc. 1442
Tver
DiedApril 22, 1467(1467-04-22) (aged 24–25)
Moscow
Burial
SpouseIvan III of Russia
IssueIvan Ivanovich
HouseRurik
FatherBoris of Tver
ReligionRussian Orthodox

Maria Borisovna of Tver (‹See Tfd›Russian: Мария Борисовна; 1442 – 22 April 1467) was the grand princess of Moscow as the first wife of Ivan III from 1462 until her death in 1467.[1][2][3] She was the daughter of Boris of Tver.[4]

  1. ^ Reinventing the Russian Monarchy in the 1550s: Ivan the Terrible, the Dynasty, and the Church, Sergei Bogatyrev, The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 85, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), 278 note 29.
  2. ^ Auty, Robert; Obolensky, Dimitri (1976). Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 1: An Introduction to Russian History. Cambridge University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-521-28038-9.
  3. ^ Langer, Lawrence N. (15 September 2021). Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-5381-1942-6.
  4. ^ Appanage and Muscovite Russia, Nikolay Andreyev, Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 1: An Introduction to Russian History, ed. Robert Auty, Dimitri Obolensky, (Cambridge University Press, 1991), 90.