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Liubartas (also
Lubart,
Lubko, baptized
Dmitry; died ca. 1385) was the
King of
Galicia-Volhynia,
crowned by the
papal Archbishop of Gniezno Janisław I in
Gniezno Cathedral in
1340 as the 7th King of Galicia-Volhynia (
1340–
1366). He was the youngest son of
Gediminas,
Grand Duke of Lithuania. Ca. 1320 or ca. 1323 he married to a daughter of
Andrew of Galicia and ruled
Lutsk in eastern Volhynia. At the time Boleslaus was fourteen years old and was
betrothed to Eufemija, daughter of Gediminas. Liubartas continued to rule Lutsk and
Volodymyr-Volynskyi.
That way the war for Galicia-Volhynia was postponed until after Boleslaus' poisoning in 1340. Sources are too scarce to reconstruct events between 1341-1349. Despite the support from his brothers
Algirdas and
Kęstutis, Liubartas lost all territories except for eastern
Volhynia with Lutsk to
Casimir III of Poland in 1349. In 1351 he was even taken prisoner during a battle, and Kęstutis had to rescue him. In 1366 a treaty was signed: Liubartas retained eastern Volhynia with Lutsk, while Poland got western Volhynia and
Galicia. However the matter was settled only in 1370: Liubartas took advantage of Casimir's death and captured all of Volhynia. He supported his brother
Kęstutis against nephew
Jogaila during the succession fights. He built a castle in Lutsk, that survives to this day. Liubartas died ca. 1385, having ruled Volhynia for roughly sixty years. He married for the second time ca. 1350 to an unnamed daughter of Konstantin of
Rostov, a relative of
Simeon of Russia.
[ He had three sons, Fëdor, Symeon, and Lazar. Fëdor inherited Volhynia, and died in 1431.]
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