Skalmantas (Gediminids)
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Skalmantas or Skolomend is the name of a possible ancestor of the Gediminid
Gediminids
The Gediminids were a dynasty of monarchs of Grand Duchy of Lithuania that reigned from the 14th to the 16th century. One branch of this dynasty, known as the Jagiellons, reigned also in Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Hungary and Kingdom of Bohemia...

 dynasty. In 1975 historian Jerzy Ochmański noted that Zadonshchina
Zadonshchina
Zadonshchina is a Russian literary monument of the late 14th century, which tells of the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380.- Redactions and the Prototext :Zadonshina exists in 2 redactions:...

, a poem from the end of the 14th century, contains lines in which two sons of Algirdas
Algirdas
Algirdas was a monarch of medieval Lithuania. Algirdas ruled the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377, which chiefly meant monarch of Lithuanians and Ruthenians...

 name their ancestors: "We are two brothers – sons of Algirdas, and grandsons of Gediminas, and great-grandsons of Skalmantas (Skolomend)." This led to the hypothesis that Skalmantas was the long-sought ancestor of the Gediminids.

According to Synodik of Liubech, a duke Gomantas (who might have been this Skalmantas) had daughter Helena (probably adult baptismal name, not original Lithuanian) who married the Chernihiv Rurikid princeling Andrew, duke of Kozelsk (d 1339, born perhaps in 1280s), an ancestral uncle of the Oginskis
Oginskis
Oginskis may have the following meanings:*The plural form of the Polish surname Oginski, e.g., in the meaning Ogiński family.*A Lithuanian form of the surname "Oginski"*A Latvian surname:**Aleksejs Kuplovs-Oginskis, Latvian football midfielder...

, Puzyna
Puzyna
Puzyna is a Rurikid princely house, now already for several centuries living in Poland. Originally they were from Belarus and region of Smolensk.Their most prominent members lived in early 20th century.* material: Russian wikipedia...

, Gortsakov, Eletski, Zvenigorodski, Bolkhovskoi, Mosalski and Khotetovski princely lineages. The property listing of metropolitan Theognostus
Theognostus
Theognostus was Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'.Theognostus was born in Constantinople and later in his life became Peter's successor as Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'...

 from mid-14th century reveals that duke Andrew Mstislavich of Kozelsk was married with a lady who was sister (or daughter) of king Gediminas.

Literature

Задонщина / Подготовка текста и примечания Л. А. Дмитриева // Изборник (Сборник произведений литературы Древней Руси) / Составители и общие редакторы Л. А. Дмитриев и Д. С. Лихачёв. — Москва: Художественная литература, 1969. — С. 380—397, 747—750 (примечания).
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