Prince of Polotsk

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The Princes of Polotsk ruled the Principality of Polotsk within the realm of Kievan Rus or within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the mid ninth cnetury to 1307.

Rogvold, a non-Riurikid Varangian, was the first Prince of Polotsk. When Vladimir the Great returned from exile in Scandinavia in 980 to try to claim the Kievan throne that his brother, Iaropolk held, he sought an alliance with Rogvolod through a marriage with his daughter, Rogneda. When she refused, calling Vladimir the "son of a slave," he attacked Polotsk, killed Rogvold and his son, and took Rogneda by force to be his wife.[1] Polotsk was then granted to Vladimir's son, Iziaslav, around the time of Christianization (988), and when Iziaslav predeceased his father in 1001, the throne of Polotsk was passed on to Iziaslav's son, Briacheslav, and the Polotsk line (the senior branch of Vladimir's sons) became izgoi and was not legally allowed to succeed to the Kievan throne,[2] although Briacheslav's son, Vseslav, held the Kievan throne in 1068-1069, after it was granted to him by the veche following the Kiev Uprising.[3]

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[edit] List of princes of Polotsk

[edit] Polotsk Riurikids

[edit] Turov Riurikids

[edit] Polotsk Riurikids

  • Vseslav Briacheslavich, (again), 1071-1101
  • Davyd Vseslavich, 1101-1127
  • Boris Vseslavich, 1127-1128
  • Davyd Vseslavich (again), 1128-1129

[edit] Monomashichi Riurikids

  • Iziaslav Mstislavich, 1129-1132
  • Sviatopolk Mstislavich, 1132

[edit] Vitebsk Ruirikids

  • Vasilko Sviatoslavich, 1132-1144

[edit] Drutsk Riurikids

  • Rogvolod Borisovich, 1144-1151

[edit] Minsk Riurikids

  • Rostislav Glebovich, 1151-1159

[edit] Drutsk Riurikids

  • Rogvolod Borisovich (again), 1159-1162

[edit] Vitebsk Ruirikids

  • Vseslav Vasilkovich, 1162-1167

[edit] Minsk Riurikids

  • Volodar Glebovich, 1167

[edit] Vitebsk Riurikids

  • Vseslav Vasilkovich (again), 1167-1175
  •  ?
  • Vseslav Vasilkovich (3rd time), 1178-1180 x
  •  ?
  • Vladimir or Volodar Vseslavich, 1186-1215

[edit] Drutsk Riurikids

  • Boris Vseslavich, 1215-1222

[edit] Smolensk Riurikids

  • Sviatoslav Mstislavich, 1222-1232

[edit] Vitebsk Riurikids

  • Bryachislav Vasilkovich, 1232-1242

[edit] Lithuanian rulers

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Janet Martin, Medieval Russia 980-1584 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 1.
  2. ^ Martin, Medieval Russia, 27.
  3. ^ Martin, Medieval Russia, 29.

[edit] References

  • Алексеев Л. В. Полоцкая земля // Древнерусские княжества Х—XIII вв. — М., 1975., pp. 202—239.
  • Богуславский В. В. Славянская энциклопедия. Киевская Русь — Московия: в 2 т. — М.: Олма-Пресс, 2001.
  • Данилович В. Е. Очерк истории Полоцкой земли до конца XIV столетия. — К., 1896. p. 731
  • Martin, Janet, Medieval Russia, 980-1584, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
  • Рыжов К. Все монархи мира. Россия. — Москва, Вече, 1998.

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