Sviatopolk II of Kiev

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Sviatopolk II Iziaslavich (Cyrillic: ????????? II ?????????, 1050–April 16, 1113) was supreme ruler of the Kievan Rus for 20 years, from 1093 to 1113. He was not a popular prince, and his reign was marked by incessant rivalry with his cousin Vladimir Monomakh. Upon his death the Kievan citizens raised a rebellion against the Jewish merchants and Varangian officials who speculated in grain and salt.

Early life

Sviatopolk was the son of Iziaslav Iaroslavich

Iziaslav I of Kiev

Iziaslav Yaroslavich , Kniaz' , Veliki Kniaz of Kiev ....
by his wife Gertrude of Poland

Gertrude of Poland

Gertrude , princess of Poland, was the daughter of King Mieszko II of Poland and Richensa of Lotharingia.In 1043, she was married to Iziaslav I de Kiev....
. Sviatopolk's Christian name was Michael. During his brother Iaropolk

Yaropolk Izyaslavich

Yaropolk Izyaslavich was a Knyaz in eleventh-century Kievan Rus. The son of Grand Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev by a Polish princess named Gertruda, he is visible in papal sources by the early 1070s but largely absent in contemporary Rus'ian sources until the year of his father's death, 1078....
's life, Sviatopolk was not regarded as a potential claimant to the Kievan throne. In 1069 he was sent to Polotsk, a city briefly taken by his father from the local ruler Vseslav

Vseslav of Polotsk

Vseslav of Polotsk or Vseslav Bryachislavich, also known as Vseslav the Sorcerer or Vseslav the Seer , was the most famous ruler of Polotsk and was briefly Grand Prince of Kiev in 1068?1069....
, and then he spent ten years (1078-88) ruling Novgorod. Upon his brother's death he succeeded him in Turov, which would remain in possession of his descendants

Ostrogski

Ostrogski was one of the greatest Ruthenian princely families of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.They were most likely of Rurikid stock and descended from Sviatopolk II of Kiev....
until the 17th century.

Reign

When Vsevolod Iaroslavich died in 1093, Sviatopolk was acknowledged by other princes as the senior son of Veliki Kniaz and permitted to ascend the Kievan throne. Although he participated in the princely congresses organized by Vladimir Monomakh, he is sometimes charged with encouraging internecine wars among Rurikid princes. For instance, he sided with his cousin David of Volhynia

Volhynia

File:Luchesk.JPGVolhynia, Volynia, or Volyn is a historic region in western Ukraine located between the rivers Pripyat River and Western Bug, to the north of Galicia and Podolia....
in capturing and blinding one of Galician

Halych

Halych is a historic city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. The town gave its name to the historic province and kingdom of Galicia , of which it was the capital until the early 14th century, when the seat of the local princes was moved to Lviv....
princes. He also sided with Vladimir Monomakh in several campaigns against the Kypchaks but was defeated in the Battle of the Stugna River

Battle of the Stugna River

The Battle of the Stugna River was a battle between the princes of Kievan Rus and the nomadic Cumans tribe . The Kievan forces were defeated....
(1097).

Sviatopolk's Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
name was Michael, so he encouraged embellishment of St Michael's Abbey in Kiev, which has been known as the Golden-Roofed
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery

St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is a functioning monastery in Kiev, Ukraine. The monastery is located on the Western side of the Dnieper River on the edge of a bluff northeast of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev....
up to the present. The history now known as the Primary Chronicle
Primary Chronicle

The Primary Chronicle , or Russian Primary Chronicle, is a history of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev about 1113....
was compiled by the monk Nestor

Nestor the Chronicler

Saint Nestor the Chronicler was the reputed author of the Primary Chronicle, , the Life of the Venerable Theodosius of Kiev the Life of the Holy Passon Bearers, Boris and Gleb, and of the so-called Reading....
during Sviatopolk's reign.

Marriage and children

Sviatopolk married a Bohemia

Bohemia

History...
n princess

Zbyslava, married to king Boleslaw III of Poland
Predslava, married to Prince Álmos
Prince Álmos

?lmos was a Hungary prince, the son of King G?za I of Hungary, brother of King Coloman of Hungary. He held several governmental posts in the Kingdom of Hungary....
of Croatia

and in 1094 to a daughter of Tugor Khan of the Kypchaks

Iaroslav (-1123), Prince of Volynia married three times - to Hungarian, Polish, and Kievan princesses In consequence of Iaroslav's early death, his descendants forfeited any right to the Kievan throne and had to content themselves with Turov and Pinsk
Pinsk

Pinsk , a town in Belarus, in the Polesia region, traversed by the river Pripyat River, at the confluence of the Strumen River and Pina rivers. The region is known as the Pinsk Marshes....
.
Maria, married Piotr Wlostowic
Piotr Wlostowic

Piotr Wlostowic , also known as Peter Wlast, Wlost or Piotr Wlast Dunin ), from a Dunin family, was a Silesian noble, castellan of Wroclaw , and a ruler of part of Silesia....

Sviatopolk II of Kiev

Early life

Reign

Marriage and children

See also

Succession

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