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He was the son of Gleb Rostislavich, prince of Ryazan. His son was
Kur-Mikhail, appanage prince of Pronsk. The family is
shown on this chart.The date of the founding of
Pronsk is not known. It was on the Pronya river. It appears to have been by the
early 12th century as one of the towns of the Sever lands. The first notice of
Pronsk is in the Nikonovski chronicle from the last quarter of the 12th
century, and in the Suzdal' chronicle under 1186. At first Pronsk with Ryazan
and Murom were part of the Chernigiv principality. At the beginning of the 12th
century after the Murom-Ryazan land separated from Chernigiv, it was part of
that principality. It became an independent principality separate from Ryazan
when Vsyevolod Glebovich received it. During practically all its history Pronsk
was engaged in bitter warfare with Ryazan while struggling to maintain its
independence. But sometimes it did lose and was reincorporated into Ryazan. The
Ryazan grand prince Vasilii Ivanovich (1464-1483) took it but in the first part
of the 16th century it fell along with all of Ryazan to Moscow. But we trace
the princes of Pronsk through 10 generations after Vsyevolod.
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