Michael Glinski
Mikhail Lvovitch Glinski ( Lithuanian Mykolas Glinski, Polish Michał Gliński, Ukrainian Михайло Львович Глинський, scientific transliteration Mychajlo L' vovyč Hlyns'kyj; * 1470, † September 15, 1534 ) was a Ruthenian nobles in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Prince, officials in civil service ( starosta, marshal ), also Bojar and Regent of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. As a direct descendant of the Emir Mamaev of the Golden Horde, he was partly Tatar descent.
Life
He came from a Tartar prince's family who has been resident since 1380 in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and came to political influence. He was, after he had fought for a long time in Friesland under Duke Albrecht of Saxony and in Italy under the Emperor Maximilian I., the favorite of King Alexander of Poland, who made him a marshal of Lithuania and Starosta of Bielsko. He made a raid on the Crimean Tatars in the Battle of Kletsk 1506 and rubbed it on almost completely.
But his proud and violent behavior towards the great men of the kingdom, and by envy at King Sigismund I caused suspicions that he wanted to subject the country to the rule of Moscow, soon brought him into disgrace. He lost all his offices and organized with his brothers a rebellion against the royal rule in Lithuania, but failed. His plans were to form from its Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian territory an independent state. He then fled with his relatives to Moscow and entered the service of the Grand Duke Vasili III .. Glinski lived from then on in Moscow and was all his goods and Lithuanian lands robbed.
He penetrated with a Muscovite army in Poland - Lithuania, but was defeated by Sigismund. The Russian monarch graduated in 1508 with Poland peace. In a second incident, he took possession of the fortress of Smolensk in 1514 by treachery, but because the Grand Duke his promise to give him this city, did not stop, he sought to make peace with Sigismund. Because of the secret connections to the Polish king, he came a few years in captivity and later was even banished to the interior of the Moscow State.
In intercession of Emperor Charles V and Glinski niece Helena, who was in 1526 the wife of the Grand Duke, he was put freely. After his release, he won great influence on the Grand Prince Vasily III. and in 1533 he was even appointed guardian of Prince Ivan. However, when he blamed the licentious life of Helene, it was this blind and thrown into prison, where he died in 1534.
The Polish poet Franciszek Wężyk treated Glinski fate in tragedy.