The Rzhevsky family Рже́вские | |
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boyar/noble family | |
Parent family | Rostislavichi of Smolensk |
Current region | Russia |
Place of origin | Rzhev, Russia |
Founded | 14th century |
Founder | Prince Fyodor Fyodorovich of Rzhev |
The House of Rzhevsky (Russian: Рже́вские) is a Russian noble family descended from the Rostislavichi of Smolensk.
The Rzhevskys are descended from Prince Fyodor Fyodorovich of Rzhev, the son of Fyodor Konstantinovich the Younger, from the reigning family of the Fomin domain (now extinct), an appanage of the Smolensk principality. In 1315 Prince Fyodor Fyodorovich of Rzhev was sent by Prince Yury Danilovich of Moscow to Veliky Novgorod to defend it from the Grand Duke of Tver, Mikhail Yaroslavich. The Novgorodians gave him away to the Duke of Tver, who took over his domain. Since then, his descendants were non-titled.
The Rzhevsky family is listed in the Part 6 (ancient nobility) of the genealogical books of Voronezh, Kostroma, Kursk, Moscow,[1] Oryol, Ryazan, Saint-Petersburg, Tambov and Tver.[2]