Andrei Kobyla
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Andrei Ivanovich Kobyla (Russian: Андрей Иванович Кобыла; died after 1347)[1] was a boyar in the court of Grand Prince Simeon of Moscow. He is the progenitor and earliest documented member of the Imperial Russian House of Romanov.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Andrei Kobyla is documented in contemporary Russian chronicles only once, in 1347,[1][2] when he was dispatched on a mission by Simeon of Moscow to Tver, with the purpose of meeting Simeon's bride, who was a daughter of Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver.
Neither Andrei's pedigree nor his exact position and influence in Simeon's court are known, hence speculation abounds.[3]
Later generations assigned to Kobyla the most illustrious pedigrees. They first claimed that he had arrived in Moscow in 1341 from Prussia,[3] where his father, Glanda Kambila, was a Prussian holdout against the conquest of Balts by the Teutonic knights.
In the late 17th century, after the Romanovs' elevation to Russia's ruling dynasty, this origin story was replaced by a more grandiose lineage, giving Andrei Kobyla's descent from Julius Caesar. Sixteenth-century genealogies mention five of Andrei's sons: Simeon Zherebets, Alexander Yolka, Vasily Vantey, Gavrila Gavsha and Fyodor Koshka.[citation needed]
References
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