Demetrios of Theodoro

Demetrios was the first known prince of Theodoro, the Greek-ruled Crimean Gothic state with its capital at Mangup, and the traditional ancestor of its Gabras dynasty. Theodoro paid tribute to the Golden Horde to the north and was in constant strife with the Genoese colonies to the south over the coast and its harbour trade.

Scholars following Alexander Vasiliev identify him with ‘Dmitry’, one of three Golden Horde princes at the Battle of Blue Waters in 1362–1363, when Grand Duke Algirdas of Lithuania defeated the Horde.

Prince Stephen, known in Russian sources as Khovra, went to Moscow with his son Gregory, who founded the Simonov Monastery there; the Khovrin and Golovin families claimed descent from them.