Butvydas
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Butvydas or Pukuveras was Grand Duke of Lithuania from c. 1290 until his death in c. 1295. Butvydas is believed to have been the father of Grand Duke Gediminas, under whom Lithuania emerged as a major
Artistic impression of Butvydas, 1908
Traidenis
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Traidenis was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1269 or 1270 until 1282. He is the second most prominent grand duke of Lithuania in the 13th century after Mindaugas. His reign ended a seven-year unrest per
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…and Eastern European power. There is no conclusive data regarding Butvydas's origins. Some scholars consider him to have been a son of the Grand Duke Traidenis. Jerzy Ochmański, analyzing the Zadonshchina, a Russian literary monument written at the end of the 14th century, concluded that Butvydas's father was…
Imaginative depiction of Traidenis by Alexander Guagnini, 16th-century
Kernavė hill forts. Kernavė was the Ducal Seat of Traidenis and the capital of Lithuania