TO THE QUESTION OF THE REASONS OF APPANAGE PRINCIPALITIES IN MEDIAEVAL RUSSIA 5
In the judgment of the author the many years' struggle of the outcast princes for their patrimony at the time when prince thrones handed dawn by the right of family seniority (from the eldest person in the family to the next person according to his family and genealogical seniority (the second part of the 11th - the beginning of the 12th century) was one of the reasons, which led the Old Russian State to the Appanage Principalities.