Čartoriskiai (Czartoryski)¶

House card¶


Seat	Chartoryisk (Czartorysk) in Volhynia (place). [Historical record]
Arms / sigil	The Vytis in later Czartoryski arms.
Words	None; the Algirdaičiai motto of the elder line, Pirmasis kraujas neužmiršta („First blood does not forget“), is a the saga’s invention. [The saga’s invention]
Patron / burden	None canonical.

Čartoriskiai (Czartoryski)


Tipas	giminė
Status	Istoriniai duomenys
Pastaba	Volhynian princes, probably descended from Konstantinas; the killers of Žygimantas in 1440.

Lineage¶

Usually treated as descended from Konstantinas, a son of Algirdas by his first wife Maria of Vitebsk, though some genealogists make him a son of Karijotas. The princes of the Orthodox, Ruthenian elder line, passed over in 1377. [Historical record]

Feuds & alliances¶

Partisans of Švitrigaila in the 1430s; the Czartorysk truce of 1 Sep 1431 followed the Polish invasion of Volhynia. Enemies of the Kęstutaičiai (1440).

Fate across the books¶

V: the Czartoryski brothers, with council lords behind them, murder Žygimantas at Trakai on Palm Sunday, 20 Mar 1440 (chs. 21–22). The first Kęstutaitis to rule was murdered by Uliana’s sons; the last is murdered by Maria’s grandsons. [Historical record for the killers (VLE), saga for the framing]
The Iron Wolf’s last howl rises from the lake as the pack of the dead mourns the prince they were first sworn to.

Ryšiai

Enemy: Kęstutaičiai (Kęstutis’s line) (1440–1440) — Killers of Žygimantas, 20 Mar 1440.

Member of: Algirdaičiai (Algirdas’s line) — Descent from Konstantinas, a son of Algirdas’s first marriage.

Sąsajos¶

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  algirdaiciai["Algirdaičiai (Algirdas's line)"]
  czartoriskiai["Čartoriskiai (Czartoryski)"]
  kestutaiciai["Kęstutaičiai (Kęstutis's line)"]
  czartoriskiai -->|Member of| algirdaiciai
  czartoriskiai -->|Enemy| kestutaiciai
  style czartoriskiai stroke-width:3px