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::''For an earlier, historically unattested and possibly just a mythical namesake, see [[Palemonids]]''
'''Narimantas''' or '''Narymunt''' (baptized ''Gleb'', born just before 1300 (according topto Wasilewski 1992) – February 2, 1348) was the second eldest son of [[Gediminas]], [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania|Grand Duke of Lithuania]]. During various periods of his life, he ruled [[Pinsk]] and [[Polatsk]]. In 1333 he was invited by [[Novgorod]]'s nobles to rule and protect territories in the north, [[Staraya Ladoga|Ladoga]], [[Oreshek]] and [[Korela]].<ref name=kiaupa/> He started the tradition of Lithuanian mercenary service north of Novgorod on the Swedish border that lasted until Novgorod's fall to Moscow in 1477.<ref>{{cite book | title=Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345 | first=C. S. | last=Rowell | year=1994 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | series=Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series| isbn=9780521450119 | page=175 }}</ref>
 
About 1338, Golden Horde took him as prisoner. The Muscovite ruler, [[Ivan Kalita]], ransomed him from Tatars, keeping him as hostage in Moscow for a few years.