Through the 15th century, the House of Odoyev concluded many treaties with Lithuania under the condition of internal autonomy and independence in their politics towards Moscow and Ryazan.

[5] In the late 1500s, the Odoyevsky princes finally lost their principality to Ivan the Terrible (r. 1533–1584) and entered the regular boyar aristocracy.

[1] He supervised the making of the Code of 1649 (Sobornoye Ulozheniye), was the head of the Grand Treasury and the Ministries of the Reiter (ru:Рейтарский приказ) and Foreign Regiments.

[1] Prince Alexander Ivanovich Odoyevsky (1802–1839), a cornet in the Imperial guards, was a member of the Decembrists' Northern Society [ru] and took part in the revolt of 1825.

[1] In 1878 the Emperor Alexander II allowed staff-rotmister of the Imperial guards, Nikolay Maslov (1849–1919), the son of Sofia Ivanovna Odoyevskaya, to name himself Odoyevsky-Maslov, and to merge his own coat-of-arms with that of his mother's family to pass it down to his senior male descendants.

[1] Later Nikolay Odoyevsky-Maslov [ru] became a General of the Cavalry (1914) and the appointed ataman (1905–1907) of the Don Cossack troops; however, he also died childless.