House
Gediminids
Royal dynasty of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Also called Dinastia de Gediminas
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Members · 16
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
9 children in the house
-
Andrei of Polotsk c. 1325 CE – 1399 CE -
Demetrius I Starshy 1327 CE – 1399 CE -
Kaributas 1350 CE – after 1404 CE -
Karigaila 1350 CE – 1390 CE -
Skirgaila 1354 CE – 1395 CE -
Lengvenis 1356 CE – 1431 CE -
Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 CE – 1434 CE -
Alexandra of Lithuania between 1368 and 1370 CE – 1434 CE -
Švitrigaila / Svidrigiello c. 1370 CE – 1452 CE
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
-
Simeon Olelkovichbefore 1420 CE – 3 December 1470 CE · prince of Kiev -
Gediminasc. 1275 CE – December 1341 CE · Grand Duke of Lithuania (1316-1341) -
Algirdas1296 CE – 24 May 1377 CE · Child of Gediminas -
Kęstutis1297 CE – 15 August 1382 CE · Child of Gediminas
-
Andrei of Polotskc. 1325 CE – 12 August 1399 CE · Child of Algirdas -
Demetrius I Starshy1327 CE – 12 August 1399 CE · Child of Algirdas -
Vytautasc. 1350 CE – 27 October 1430 CE · Child of Kęstutis -
Kaributas1350 CE – after 1404 CE · Child of Algirdas -
Karigaila1350 CE – 16 September 1390 CE · Child of Algirdas -
Skirgaila1354 CE – 10 January 1395 CE · Child of Algirdas -
Lengvenis1356 CE – 19 June 1431 CE · Child of Algirdas -
Władysław II Jagiełło1362 CE – 1 June 1434 CE · Child of Algirdas -
Sigismund Kęstutaitisc. 1365 CE – 20 March 1440 CE · Child of Kęstutis -
Alexandra of Lithuaniabetween 1368 and 1370 CE – 20 April 1434 CE · Child of Algirdas -
Švitrigaila / Svidrigielloc. 1370 CE – 10 February 1452 CE · Child of Algirdas -
Sophia of Lithuania1371 CE – 15 June 1453 CE · Child of Vytautas
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 5 holders
- 2 gaps
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Prince of Chernigov
- 3 holders
- 3 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 3
-
Dates unrecorded Kaributas son of the Grand Duke of Lithuania
Prince of Polotsk
- 3 holders
- 1 overlap
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
-
Overlap held at the same time as Lengvenis
No dates recorded 1
Prince of Novgorod-Seversk
- 2 holders
- 1 gap
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
-
Gap about 26 years before the next in this house
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
-
paganism 4 members -
Eastern Orthodoxy 2 members -
Christianity 2 members -
Catholicism 2 members -
Lithuanian mythology 1 member
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How Gediminids connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 2
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
Keep exploring
More houses, tradition by tradition
The directory lists every one on record, most widely recorded first.
A family on the record
is not a family in a myth.