Yury Ivanovich (; 23 March 14803 August 1536) was the second surviving son of
Ivan III and his wife
Sophia Paleologue. Since 1519, his appanages included Dmitrovskoe knjazevstvo.
When his elder brother
Vasily III ascended to the throne, Yury was 24 years old. Like his other brothers, he was forbidden to marry until Vasily could produce an heir and even then he was not allowed to marry without the ruler's permission. For Yury Ivanovich this permission never came because after his brother's death in 1533 his widow and regent for the young
Ivan IV
Ivan IV Vasilyevich (; – ), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible,; ; monastic name: Jonah. was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. ...
,
Elena Glinskaya, began to suspect Yury.
Not long after that Yury was arrested and put in prison where he died of starvation in 1536.
Ancestry
References
Иван III Васильевич
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1480 births
1536 deaths
Daniilovichi family
People from the Grand Principality of Moscow
15th-century Russian people
16th-century Russian nobility
Russian people who died in prison custody
Prisoners who died in Russian detention
People of Byzantine descent
Sons of princes regnant