Galich-Mersky
Galich-Mersky was a Rus' appanage centered on Galich, on the lake of the same name northeast of Moscow. In 1337 Ivan Fyodorovich ruled the principality, recently separated from the combined Galich-Dmitrov principality.
In 1360 the displaced prince of Dmitrov briefly took Galich with Golden Horde support, but Muscovite governors arrived in 1363. Dmitry Donskoy granted Galich to his son Yuri in 1389; Yuri's son Dmitry Shemyaka used its salt wealth to contest the Muscovite throne, until Vasily II annexed the principality in 1450.
Characters
- Davyd Konstantinovich of Galich
- Fyodor Davydovich of Galich-Mersky
- Ivan Fyodorovich of Galich-Mersky
- Konstantin Yaroslavich of Galich
- Vasily Konstantinovich of Galich