A grand principality is the territory reigned by a grand prince.
The royal family perished in the fire, while the grand prince retreated northward.
The grand prince himself managed to escape, only to fall at the Battle of the Sit River the following month.
The grand prince was informed that Yury's troops had been seen among his enemies and decided to punish him for this treachery.
Those grand princes' title and position was at the time usually translated as king.
Konstantin took the throne of Vladimir and reigned as grand prince until his death two years later.
He was said to be austere, never sycophantic to the grand prince, and never one to do anything against his own conscience.
In the 15th century, the grand princes of Moscow went on gathering Russian lands to increase the population and wealth under their rule.
The title of a grand prince is not inherited and his sons are generally referred to as mere princes.
Another translation of the Russian title would be grand prince.