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Personal data Michael II Rurikides Grootvorst van Tver 

• He was born in the year 1333.
• Title: Grootvorst van Tver en Vladimir Hertog van Kasjin
• He died on August 26, 1399, he was 66 years old.
• A child of Alexander I Rurikides Grootvorst van Tver and Anastasia Yourovna Rurikides
• This information was last updated on June 2, 2016.

Household of Michael II Rurikides Grootvorst van Tver

He had a relationship with Living.

Child(ren):

1. Ivan II Rurikides Grootvorst van Tver  1357-1425 

Notes about Michael II Rurikides Grootvorst van Tver

Mikhail Alexandrovich (Russian: ?????? ?????????????) (1333 – August 26, 1399) was Grand Prince of Tver and briefly held the title of Grand Prince of Vladimir. He was one of only two Tver princes after 1317 (the other was his father, Aleksandr) to hold the grand princely title, which was almost the exclusive purview of the Muscovite princes.
Mikhail Alexandrovich was the fourth son of Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver. Mikhail grew up in Pskov, where his father had fled after the Tver Uprising of 1327. He was christened by the Archbishop of Novgorod, Vasily Kalika, in 1333.[1] Five years later, he and his mother were called to Tver when Aleksandr returned to the city. In 1341, he went to Novgorod where Archbishop Vasily taught him reading and writing (which would have meant reading the Scriptures). In 1368, he became prince of Tver.
Mikhail Alexandrovich was among the last princes to seriously threaten Grand Duchy of Moscow for possession of the office of Grand Prince of Vladimir, hoping to unseat Moscow with the aid of his brother-in-law Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. In 1371, he managed to gain the yarlik or patent of office as Grand Prince of Vladimir from the Khan of the Golden Horde, and was accepted as Prince of Novgorod, an important economic asset for any Russian prince. He seems to have lost power the following year when Algirdas concluded Treaty of Lyubutsk with Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow, but it is not clear who was considered grand prince between 1372 and 1375,[2] at which time Dmitri Donskoi defeated Mikhail.

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