The stylite gave his staff to one of his boyars to take to the prince ; Mikhail took hold of it, was cured, and walked to the miracle-worker ’ s pillar for his blessing.

Unpopular among the boyars, he was overthrown with Ottoman assistance, prompting him to take refuge in Transylvania-where he was to be murdered in front of the Sibiu Cathedral, being buried inside the church.

After Vladimir's mother was forced to take the veil and his boyars exiled, Ivan finally decided to call it square.

According to the treaty, a council of 12 great boyars was to take part alongside the voivode in the executive rule of the country.

The Union of Vilnius and Radom of 1401 confirmed Vytautas's status as grand duke under Władysław's overlordship, while assuring the title of grand duke to the heirs of Władysław rather than those of Vytautas: should Władysław die without heirs, the Lithuanian boyars were to elect a new monarch.

A group of boyars, unwilling to swear allegiance to the new tsar, seized control of the Kremlin and arrested him.

Russian princes and boyars, who often had to wait in Sarai for the Kurultai to elect a new khan, who would then re-issue their yarlyks ( patents ), would no doubt often witness this khan kutermiak rituals, which became increasingly more frequent and futile during the mid-14th century time of troubles in the Horde, giving rise to the Russian word " кутерьма " ( kuter ' ma ), meaning " running around pointlessly ".

Consequently, he signed his name to the more moderate proposal of Dimitrie Rallet, which prevented boyars from instituting new corvées, while leaving other matters to be discussed by a future permanent Assembly.

Shuisky seized power and was elected tsar by an assembly composed of his faction, but the change did not satisfy the Russian boyars, Commonwealth magnates, Cossacks, or the German mercenaries, and soon a new impostor, likewise calling himself Dmitri, son and heir of Ivan the Terrible, came forward as the rightful heir.

Most notably, the new laws tried to impose salaries for public offices, a measure intended to reduce fiscal burdens on the taxed social categories ( that had been supposed to provide revenues for the fiscal agents, usually boyars, in an economy in which land ownership had become less of an asset than holding office ) and ensure a more professional administrative structure.

In 1622 the land of Breaza was divided between four boyars and in 1717, the new ruler of Wallachia, Nicolae Mavrocordat gave the Breaza estate to boyar Iordache Creţulescu.

Andronikos had among his several sons two who became " boyars " in what today is Romania and founded the yet-surviving new branches of Cantacuzino:

On 27 July a treaty was signed between the boyars and Żółkiewski promising the Russian boyars the same vast privileges the Polish szlachta had, in exchange for them recognizing Władysław as the new tsar.

Żółkiewski acted quickly, making promises without the consent of the still-absent king, and the boyars elected Władysław as the new tsar.

The new executive, backed by popular shows of support on the Filaret field which reunited the Bucharester middle class with peasants from the surrounding area ( June 27, August 25 ), passed a series of radical reformist laws that drew the animosity of Tsar Nicholas I, who pressured the Porte to crush the Wallachian movement ; the proposed land reform also led a group of boyars, headed by Ioan Solomon, to attack and arrest the government on July 1-the effects of this gesture were cancelled on the same day by the inhabitants ' reaction and the Ana Ipătescu-led attack on the building occupied by conspirators.

His second wife, the descendant of boyars, was the sister-in-law of prestigious conductor Ionel Perlea.

Galitzine had a wife and a large family at a time when the boyars were still attached to the Domostroy, a matrimonial code from Ivan IV's reign.

He rejected the notion that, despite Vladimirescu's statements to the contrary, the rebellion had a peasant character, and argued instead that it was evidence of low-ranking boyars and merchants (" the embryo of a class, that was to become the bourgeoisie ") attempting to emancipate themselves from Ottoman pressures.

The essay, written in harsh tones, listed what Caragiale saw as the major social problems tolerated by Romanian administrations: he discussed the landowning class, successor to the boyars, having maintained as much possible from the legacy of serfdom ; he noted that, while the commerce was dominated by foreigners, the administration was gripped by a no longer aristocratic oligarchy and its far-reaching political machine.

However, this project never gained much support ; many boyars feared that the union with the predominantly Catholic Poland – Lithuania would endanger Russia's Orthodox traditions and opposed anything that threatened the Russian culture, especially the policies aimed at curtailing the influence of the Orthodox Church, intermarriage and education in Polish schools that has already led to Polonization of the Ruthenian lands under Polish control.

In the process of the pre-19th century voluntary Polonization, much of the local nobility, boyars and gentry of Ruthenian and Lithuanian nobility origins adopted Polish language and culture.

Some Russian boyars found the proposal attractive ( like Boris Godunov, a supporter of the 1587 Feodor's I candidacy ) due to various reasons, among them the fact that the Golden Freedoms of the Commonwealth, if applied in Russia, would weaken tsar's power and thus grant the nobility a much higher status then that enjoyed previously.

Under the occupation, Oltenia was the only part of the Danubian Principalities ( with the later exception of Bukovina ) to experience Enlightened absolutism and Austrian administration, although these were met by considerable and mounting opposition from conservative boyars.

Soon after the battle, Tsar Vasily IV was ousted by the boyars and Żółkiewski entered Moscow with little opposition.

Although, the young prince's troops could get the mastery in 1189 when the boyars of Halych rose against his rule, but shortly afterwards Prince Vladimir II Yaroslavich managed to escape from his captivity and he expelled the Hungarian troops from Halych.

The dynastic link to Poland resulted in religious, political and cultural ties and increase of Western influence among the native Lithuanian nobility, and to a lesser extent among the Ruthenian boyars from the East, Lithuanian subjects.

* Volodimir of Halych, last king of Rus ( Halych-Volyn Rus ) of Romanovichi dynasty, is removed from the throne by his boyars.

After the Mongol invasion in the 13th century, the boyars from central and southern parts of Kievan Rus ' ( modern Belarus and Ukraine ) were incorporated into Lithuanian and Polish nobility ( szlachta ).

Therefore, there were two kinds of boyars: those whose ancestors, as chiefs of the ancient rural communities, had held land before the formation of the feudal states, such that the prince merely confirmed their preexisting status as landowners ; and those who acquired their domain from a princely donation or who had inherited it from an ancestor who acquired it through such a donation ( cf.

The family name is derived from a 15th or 16th century ancestor, Roman Vasilyevich Monastïryov, who was mentioned in the Velvet Book, the 17th century genealogy of Russian boyars.

According to his own letters, Ivan, along with his younger brother Yuri, often felt neglected and offended by the mighty boyars from the Shuisky and Belsky families.

Torzhok boyars locked up Simeon's tax collectors and called for help from Novgorod.

The Grand Duke increasingly held aloof from his boyars.

After 1716, the Ottomans decided to cease choosing the voivodes from among the Wallachian boyars, and to appoint foreign governors.

The princes of Wallachia were chosen from among his descendants – either legitimate, or not – by an assembly of the boyars until the 16th century.

He claimed the Tsar's title from 1610 to 1634 but never assumed the throne, as his father and Commonwealth king, Zygmunt III Waza, failed to negotiate a lasting agreement with the boyars ; the Polish garrison in Moscow was soon besieged and would surrender a year later.

His eldest son Konstantin, gaining the support of powerful Rostovan boyars and Mstislav the Bold of Kiev, expelled the rightful heir, his brother George, from Vladimir to Rostov.

Kogălniceanu noted with pride that " The entire nation has accepted this great reform, and everyone, former Princes, great boyars, low-ranking boyars, privileged strata, have received this equalitarian reform, discarding, even without special laws, all that derived from the old regime, and even all that resembled the old regime ".

The reason for this choice has been explained as a reaction of indigenous boyars against competition from newly infiltrated Greeks and Levantines.

Matei Basarab's rule also coincides with the last stage in the decay of the lesser nobility, the result of political pressure from boyars and drastic economical changes ( the revolt of the seimeni military under Constantin Şerban probably has this as its main cause ).

When several of his boyars fled to the Russian camp, the prince saw himself forced to decide in favor of the Ottomans or risk becoming an enemy of his Ottoman suzerain, and swiftly returned the gifts he had received from the Russians.

Merchants and boyars of Novgorod had exploited the fur resources “ beyond the portage ”, a watershed at the White Lake that represents the door to the entire northwestern part of Eurasia, from as early as the tenth century.

The Lithuanian nobility was historically a legally privileged class in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania consisting of Lithuanians, from the historical regions of Lithuania Proper and Samogitia, and, following Lithuania's eastern expansion, many Ruthenian noble families ( boyars ).