Gagarin family

The House of Gagarin (Russian: Гага́рин) is the name of a Russian princely family descending from sovereign rulers of Starodub-on-the-Klyazma.[1]

Gagarin
Princely arms of the Gagarin family
Parent house[citation needed]
CountryRussian Empire
TitlesPrince Gagarin
Style(s)His/Her Highness

Origins

Yaroslav Vsevolodovich II of Vladimir (died 1246) gave his brother Ivan the appanage of Starodub.[citation needed] The great-great-grandson of this Prince Ivan, Prince Ivan Fedorovich, called Lapa-Golibesovskoy, had a grandson, Ivan Mikhailovich Gagara, whose descendants, the Princes Gagarin, served the Russian throne as boyars and in other distinguished positions.[citation needed] They were granted fiefdoms for their service to the tsar.[2]

Notable figures

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  1. ^ Beshoner, Jeffrey Bruce, Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union, University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, passim.
  2. ^ Beshoner, Jeffrey Bruce, Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin: The Search for Orthodox and Catholic Union, University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, passim.
  3. ^ Young, George M., The Russian Cosmists, Oxford University Press, 2012, p51