SIMEON

(1316–1353), prince of Moscow and grand prince of Vladimir.

Like his father Ivan I Danilovich "Moneybag," Simeon Ivanovich ("the Proud") collaborated with the Tatar overlords and secured a preferential status. After Ivan I died in 1340, Simeon and rival claimants visited the Golden Horde in Saray to solicit the patent for the grand princely throne. Khan Uzbek gave it to Simeon, who became the khan's obedient vassal and was thus able to wield at least limited jurisdiction over rival princes. He also obtained the khan's backing for his campaigns against Grand Prince Olgerd of Lithuania who, in the 1340s, increased his incursions into western Russia. Simeon waged war on Novgorod and forced it to recognize him as its prince and to pay Tatar tribute to him. With the help of Metropolitan Feognost he asserted greater control over the town than his father had done. During Simeon's reign the principality of Suzdal–Nizhny Novgorod replaced Tver in the rivalry for supremacy with Moscow. Although the Tatars helped Simeon fight foreign enemies, after 1342 Khan Jani-Beg refused to help him become stronger than his rivals in northeast Russia. Specifically, he prevented Simeon from increasing the size of his domain and his power as grand prince.

Simeon's agreement with his brothers in the late 1340s alludes, for the first time, to the appanage system of Moscow. The document describes the relationship between the grand prince and his brothers and recognizes the domains that Ivan I allocated to his sons as hereditary appanages. On April 26, 1353, Simeon died from the plague.

See also: appanage era; grand prince; moscow; muscovy

bibliography

Fennell, John L. I. (1968). The Emergence of Moscow, 1304–1359. London: Secker and Warburg.

Martin, Janet. (1995). Medieval Russia, 980–1584. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Martin Dimnik

Simeon Male forename.

In the Bible, Simeon was a Hebrew patriarch, son of Jacob and Leah (Genesis 29:33); also, the tribe of Israel traditionally descended from him.

In the New Testament, Simeon is the name of the singer of the Nunc Dimittis, who recognized the child Jesus in the Temple and gave thanks that he had seen the Messiah; he also prophesied to Mary that a sword would pierce her heart (one of the Seven Sorrows of Mary).
St Simeon Stylites (c.390–459), Syrian monk. After living in a monastic community he became the first to practise an extreme form of asceticism which involved living on top of a pillar; this became a site of pilgrimage.

Simeon
1. Son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 29: 33), and regarded as founder and ancestor of the tribe Simeon which united with Judah at the time of the conquest of Canaan (Judg. 1: 3–17) but was regarded by the Chronciler as part of the northern kingdom (2 Chron. 15: 9).

2. An elderly man who took the infant Jesus into his arms in the Temple (Luke 2: 25–35) and praised God that he had seen salvation brought to Israel.

2. The Hebrew name of Simon ( Peter), found in 2 Pet. 1: 1.

Simeon or Symeon , in the Bible. 1 Second son of Jacob and Leah and ancestor of the southernmost tribe of Israel. He and his tribe are seldom mentioned individually. 2 Devout man who blessed Jesus when He was presented in the Temple. He uttered Nunc dimittis . 3 Simeon Niger, early Christian, prominent in Antioch. In chapter 15 of the Acts of the Apostles, Simeon appears for the usual Simon, referring to St. Peter.

Simeon. (1) In the OT, one of the Hebrew patriarchs, the ancestor of the tribe of that name. (2) The aged and devout Jew who took the infant Christ in his arms in the Temple at Jerusalem, spoke the words now known as the ‘Nunc Dimittis’, and prophesied that a sword would pierce the soul of the BVM (Lk. 2: 25–35).

Simeon ♂ Biblical name, from a Hebrew word meaning ‘hearkening’. It is borne by several Old and New Testament characters, rendered in the Authorized Version variously as Shimeon, Simeon, and Simon. In the New Testament, it is the spelling used for the man who blessed the infant Christ (Luke 2:25).

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