Butvydas
Sign in to saveButvydas or Pukuveras (died ) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from until his death in . Butvydas is believed to have been the father of Grand Duke Gediminas, under whom Lithuania emerged as a major Northern and Eastern European power.
Key facts
- Monarch.image
- Пукувер Будивид.jpg
- Monarch.caption
- Artistic impression of Butvydas, 1908
- Monarch.succession
- Grand Duke of Lithuania
- Monarch.reign
- 1290–1295
- Monarch.predecessor
- Butigeidis
- Monarch.successor
- Vytenis
- Monarch.royal house
- House of Gediminas
- Monarch.issue
- VytenisGediminasVainiusTeodoras
- Monarch.death_date
- 1295
- Monarch.religion
- Baltic religion
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- Background
- Reign
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
Butvydas or Pukuveras (died ) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from until his death in . Butvydas is believed to have been the father of Grand Duke Gediminas, under whom Lithuania emerged as a major Northern and Eastern European power.
==Background== There is no conclusive data regarding Butvydas's origins. However, some scholars consider him to have been a son of the Grand Duke Traidenis. Butvydas is first mentioned in Galician–Volhynian Chronicle dating to April–May 1289, when, together with his elder brother Grand Duke Butigeidis, he handed over the town of Vawkavysk to the Ruthenian prince Mstislav in compliance with the terms of the peace treaty between Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Principality of Volhynia.
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