Prince of Murom

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The Prince of Murom was the kniaz, the ruler or sub-ruler, of the Rus' Principality of Murom, a lordship based on the city of Murom, now in Vladimir Oblast, Russia.

Gleb Vladimirovich, son of Vladimir the Great, ruled the principality in the early eleventh-century.[1] Murom was part of the territory of the Principality of Chernigov in the late eleventh-century, controlled by the Sviatoslavichi clan, the descendants of Iaroslav the Wise; probably it was retained by Vsevolod Iaroslavich even after this Prince of Chernigov became Grand Prince in 1076.[2]

Oleg Sviatoslavich, grand-son of Iaroslav and Prince of Chernigov, ruled Murom through a posadnik in the early 1090s, and it was recognised as Oleg's sphere of influence at the Liubech Conference of 1097.[3] Here Oleg's brother Davyd was made co-ruler of Chernigov, and Oleg's lands were parcelled out between Oleg, Davyd and their brother Iaroslav; the latter obtained Ryanzan and Murom.[4]

In 1392 Vasily Dmitr'evich, Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir, obtained a patent from Khan Tokhtamysh authorising the annexation of the Murom principality, along with those of Nizhni Novgorod and Gorodets.[5]

[edit] List of princes of Murom

  • Iaroslav Sviatoslavich, 1097-1129
  • Iurii Iaroslavich, 1129-1143
  • Sviatoslav Iaroslavich, 1143-1145
  • Rostislav Iaroslavich, 1145-1147
  • Vladimir Sviatoslavich, 1147-1149
  • Rostislav Iaroslavich (again), 1149-1155
  • Vladimir Sviatoslavich (again), 1155-1161
  • Iurii Vladimirovich, 1161-1174
  • Davyd Iur'evich, 1174-?
  • Vladimir Iur'evich, ?-1203
  • Igor Iur'evich, 1203-?
  • Iurii Davydovich, ?-1237
  • Iaroslav Iur'evich, 1237-?

After Iaroslav and the destruction of Murom by the Mongols, the princs of Murom disappear for nearly a century, resuming with:

  • Vasily Iaroslavich, ?-1344 x 8
  • Iurii Iaroslavich, 1344 x 8-1353
  • Fedor Glebovich, 1353-x 1392

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Franklin & Shepard, Emergence, p. 185.
  2. ^ Martin, Medieval Russia, p. 31.
  3. ^ Franklin & Shepard, Emergence, p. 185.
  4. ^ Dimnik, Dynasty of Chernigov, p. 12.
  5. ^ Martin, Medieval Russia, p. 228.

[edit] References

  • Dimnik, Martin, The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146-1246, (Cambridge, 2003)
  • Franklin, Simon, and Shepard, Jonathan, The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200, (Longman History of Russia, Harlow, 1996)
  • Martin, Janet, Medieval Russia, 980-1584, (Cambridge, 1995)
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