Wigund-Jeronym Trubecki

Wigund-Jeronym Trubecki or Yuri Nikitich Trubetsky as he was called earlier in Muscovy (; c. 1572 – 1634) was the Prince of Trubetsk from 1611 to 1634, preceded by Symeon Iwanowicz Perski Trubecki, succeeded by Piotr Trubecki, and Aleksander Trubecki. Yuri Nikitich Trubetsky was also a boyar and equestrian of False Dmitry II. After emigrating to Poland, and restoring The Principality of Trubetsk, he converted to Catholicism, and took the name Wigund-Jeronym Trubecki. Biography He was the eldest son of the governor and boyar Prince Ioann Nikita Romanovich Kosoj Trubetsky, who died in January 1608, and his wife Jevdokia Mikhailovna Trubetskaya, who died in 1629. In the male line – a 10th generation descendant of Gediminas of Lithuania, the King of Lithuania. His brothers were Feodor Nikitich Trubetsky, and Afanasy Alexey Nikitich Trubetsky, Sovereign of Trubetsk from 1660 to 1672. Prince Yuri Nikitich Trubetsky, as he was called in the earlier life, began his service at the tsarist court of Feodor I of Russia in the rank of rynda and stolnik. It was first mentioned in October 1592, when he was deputy to Prince Andrei Ivanovich Nogtyov-Suzdalsky, and his son Daniil Andreyevich Nogtyov-Suzdalsky, with his father boyar Prince Nikita Romanovich Trubetsky. In 1595 the stolnik Prince Trubetsky attended in a dinner with Tsar Feodor Ioannovich in honor of the German ambassadors. In October 1596, Prince Trubetsky was "the first rynda in the white coat" during the reception of the Lithuanian ambassador Jan Radziwiłłowicz Gołubicki at Tsar Feodor Ioannovich. In May 1597, Prince Trubetsky was "the first rynda in the white coat" with Tsar Feodor Ioannovich in the Palace of Facets. Prince Ivan Semyonovich Kurakin was appointed as the second rynda. The Tsar supported Prince Trubetsky in the parochial dispute, and he dismissed Prince I. S. Kurakin. In July 1597, during the reception of the Austrian ambassador Burgrave Abraham Donawski with Tsar Feodor Ioannovich, Prince Trubetsky was the first rynda again. In August 1597 Prince Trubetsky was again the first rynda with the Tsarist person. In 1598 Prince Trubetsky was a rynda "at the Big Saadak" during the campaign of the new Tsar Boris Godunov to Serpukhov against the Crimean Tatars. His father, boyar Nikita Romanovich, was left in the boyar commission in Moscow under the young Tsarevich Feodor Borisovich.