David of Hrodna
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David was a governor of Hrodna during the reign of Gediminas. He was the son of Daumantas of Pskov, great grandson of Alexander Nevsky, and son-in-law of Gediminas.
David is mentioned for the first time in 1314, when he helped relieve a siege of Navahradak by the Teutonic knights. He seems to have been a middleman between the pagan Gediminas and the Christian princes of the Rurikid family and frequently led into battle the united Lithuanian-Ruthenian armies.
In 1318 David was in charge of a small detachment that devastated Prussia. Four years later, he took part in the Pskovian punitive expedition to Estonia. In 1324, he broke the knights' siege of his native city. In 1325 and 1326, he led the Lithuanian armies into Brandenburg and Masovia, where he was traitorously killed by a Polish agent.
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This article is based on material from the public domain 1906 Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
