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Druck Coat of Arms
Drutsk (Belarusian: Друцк, [drutsk]; Polish: Druck, Russian: Друцк, also known as Дрютескъ (Dryutesk) or Дрюческъ (Druchesk) in the Middle Ages), is a historical town in Belarus, 40 kilometres (ca. 25 miles) west of Mogilev.
The town was established in 1078 as an outpost of the Principality of Polotsk on the road from Polotsk to Kiev and Chernigov. According to the Drutsk Gospel, the town was built around one of the oldest Christian churches in White Ruthenia erected in 1001.
In the 12th century and 13th century it was a centre of the early medieval Principality of Drutsk, ruled by the dukes of the Polotsk branch of the Rurikid dynasty. Since the 13th century there is only limited information about the town available in the chronicles.
In 1524 Drutsk has been burned down by Russians in a war and started to lose its political importance. Exact time and reasons of the town's decline are unknown. Historians estimate the period of decline to between the 15th and 17th centuries.
Archaeological researches state that Drutsk has been an important military fortress for some period of time. Until the mid 17th century it had a castle. Both the castle and the town have been destroyed and rebuilt for several times.
According to the German ambassador of the 17th century Johann Georg Korb, in the 16th century Drutsk was a large city that had about two hundred churches but that was then entirely destroyed in a war. Therefore Korb compared the city with Troy.
The town is also the name-sake of the Drucki-Lubecki and Druckoy-Sokolinski noble families and the name-sake for their coat of arms, the Druck Coat of Arms. The most famous member of those families is Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki.
Drutsk (Belarusian: Друцк, [drutsk]; Polish: Druck, Russian: Друцк, also known as Дрютескъ (Dryutesk) or Дрюческъ (Druchesk) in the Middle Ages), is a...
Principality of Drutsk (Belarusian: Княства Друцкае) was a small appanage principality of the Polotsk principality and was centred in Drutsk. It was located...
[citation needed] daughter, in 1143 married Prince of Drutsk Rogvold Rogvoldovich (see Principality of Drutsk) Iziaslav's second wife was Bagrationi daughter...
language and Eastern Orthodoxy in this part of Europe. It is thought that the Drutsk and related princely families may also descend from Roman the Great.[citation...
century and 1240 included Kiev (Kyiv), Beloozero, Chernigov (Chernihiv), Drutsk, Halych (Galicia), Jersika, Koknese, Murom, the Novgorod Republic, Novgorod-Seversk...
Polotsk. Vseslav had six sons: Roman (?-1114/1116), Prince of ? (probably of Drutsk). Roman perished either in Ryazan or Murom. His widow became a nun and lived...
principality included Barysaw, Lahojsk, Zaslawye, Orsha and the historical town of Drutsk. The area around Minsk was controlled by the Principality of Polotsk beginning...
(Babadishvili) (Georgian nobility) Princes Babichevy (a branch of the Princes of Drutsk, descendants of Prince Ivan Semyonovich Baba-Drutsky) Princes Bagration...
5. Sophia of Halshany 22. Dimitri of Drutsk (possibly Demetrius I Starshy) 11. Alexandra Dimitrijewna of Drutsk 1. Barbara of Poland 24. Albert III, Duke...
Later, Yaroslav Svyatoslavich and Igor waged war on the Principality of Drutsk whose prince Gleb Rogvoldovich formed a pact with prince David Rostislavich...
Ivanovich of Halshany 9. Sophia of Halshany 19. Alexandra Dmitrievna of Drutsk 2. Vladislas II of Bohemia and Hungary 20. Albert IV, Duke of Austria 10...
and sons of Oleg Sviatoslavich assaulted Minsk. The Monomakhs took Orsha, Drutsk, and took Minsk under siege. Gleb started negotiations with Vladimir who...
Prince of Halshany 5. Sophia of Halshany 11. Alexandra Dimitrijewna of Drutsk 1. Sigismund I the Old 12. Albert IV, Duke of Austria 6. Albert II of Germany...
Holszański[failed verification] 5. Sophia of Halshany 11. Alexandra Dimitrijewna of Drutsk 1. Vladislaus II, King of Hungary and Bohemia 12. Albert IV, Duke of Austria...
Rogvolod Vseslavich, baptismal name Boris, was the Prince of Drutsk and Polotsk. He was the son of Vseslav of Polotsk, Grand Prince of Rus. Rogvolod probably...
Bielsk 22. Andrew of Halshany 11. Vasilisa of Halshany 23. Alexandra of Drutsk 1. Frederick of Cieszyn 24. Victor of Kunštát and Poděbrady 12. George of...
Prince Daniel Ostrogski Mikhail Romanovich [parentage uncertain], Prince of Drutsk; his alleged descendants include Princes Drutski, Drutskoy-Sokolinski, Konoplya-Sokolinski...
princes were allowed to return in 1139 and the princes of Vitebsk, Minsk and Drutsk began to quarrel over the control of Polotsk after Vseslav claimed Polotsk...
from in the 12th century. It split along with Polotsk, Minsk, Vitebsk, Drutsk and Logozhsk. These fragmented territories were ruled by Vseslav of Polotsk's...
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