Gedimi? Novichi - the ruling dynasty of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the common name of the princely families of Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, dating back to the ancestor of Gediminas. The background of the Gediminovich dynasty due to the inconsistency of medieval written sources is not entirely clear. It is known that after Dovmont, whose kinship with Troyden and the later Gediminovichs is in heaven, power passed to Butigeid, brother of Pukuver Budivida, in 1287. The alleged father of Butigeid and Pukuver Budivida and, thus, the ancestor of the dynasty, some historians call Skolomend.