Maria of Tver

{{Short description|Grand Princess of Moscow from 1462 to 1467}}

{{family name hatnote|Borisovna||lang=Eastern Slavic}}

{{Infobox royalty

| consort = yes

| name = Maria Borisovna

| image = Facial Chronicle - b.14, p. 238 - Ivan III and Maria of Tver's wedding.gif

| caption = Wedding of Maria and Ivan III, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible

| succession = Grand Princess consort of Moscow

| reign = 28 March 1462 – 22 April 1467

| coronation =

| successor = Sophia Palaiologina

| predecessor = Maria of Borovsk

| spouse = Ivan III of Russia

| issue = Ivan Ivanovich

| house = Rurik

| father = Boris of Tver

| mother =

| birth_date = {{circa|1442}}

| birth_place = Tver

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1467|04|22|1442}}

| death_place = Moscow

| burial_place = Ascension Convent, Kolomenskoye
Archangel Cathedral, Kremlin (1929)

| religion = Russian Orthodox

}}

Maria Borisovna of Tver ({{langx|ru|Мария Борисовна}}; 1442 – 22 April 1467) was the grand princess of Moscow as the first wife of Ivan III from 1462 until her death in 1467.Reinventing the Russian Monarchy in the 1550s: Ivan the Terrible, the Dynasty, and the Church, Sergei Bogatyrev, The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 85, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), 278 note 29.{{cite book |last1=Auty |first1=Robert |last2=Obolensky |first2=Dimitri |title=Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 1: An Introduction to Russian History |date=1976 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-28038-9 |page=96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0iVBLGd9xEC |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Langer |first1=Lawrence N. |title=Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia |date=15 September 2021 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-1942-6 |page=84 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8I6EAAAQBAJ |language=en}} She was the daughter of Boris of Tver.Appanage and Muscovite Russia, Nikolay Andreyev, Companion to Russian Studies: Volume 1: An Introduction to Russian History, ed. Robert Auty, Dimitri Obolensky, (Cambridge University Press, 1991), 90.

Biography

When Vasili II, Ivan III's father, was getting ready to attack Dmitry Shemyaka, he found an ally in the person of Boris of Tver. The two decided to seal the alliance by arranging a betrothal between the future Ivan III and Maria of Tver in 1452. It appears that she died from poisoning in 1467. However, if one is to believe Joseph Volotsky, she had been suffering from "infirmity" since childhood. She gave birth to Ivan the Young in 1458.

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Category:1440s births

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Category:Grand princesses consort of Moscow

Category:15th-century Russian women

Category:15th-century Russian people