Prince of Smolensk

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The Prince of Smolensk was the kniaz, the ruler or sub-ruler, of the Rus' Principality of Smolensk, a lordship based on the city of Smolensk. It passed between different groups of descendants of Grand Prince Iaroslav I of Kiev until 1125, when following the death of Vladimir Monomakh the latter's grandson Rostislav Mstislavich was installed in the principality, while the latter's father Mstislav I Vladimirovich became Grand Prince. It gained its own bishopric in 1136. It was Rostislav's descendents, the Rostaslavichi, who ruled the principality until the fifteenth-century. Smolensk enjoyed stronger western ties than most Rus' principalities.

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[edit] List of rulers of Smolensk

[edit] Pre-Rostaslavichi

  • Stanislav Vladimirovich, 1010-1015
  • Viacheslav Iaroslavich, 1054-1057
  • Igor Iaroslavich, 1057-1060
  • Sviatoslav Iaroslavich, 1060-1073
  • Vladimir Monomakh, 1073-1077/8
  • Vladimir Vsevolodich, 1077-1085
  • Iziaslav Vladimirovich, 1093-1094
  • Davyd I Sviatoslavich, 1094 x 1096
  • Mstislav Vladimirovich, 1094 x 1096
  • Davyd I Sviatoslavich (again), 1096-1097
  • Sviatoslav Vladimirovich, 1097-1113
  • Viacheslav Vladimirovich, 1113-1125

[edit] Rostaslavichi

  • Rostislav Mstislavich, 1125-1160
  • Roman Rostislavich, 1159/60-1172
  • Iaropolk Romanovich, 1172-1174
  • Mstislav I Rostislavich "The Bold", 1175-1177
  • Roman Rostislavich (again), 1177-1180
  • Davyd Rostislavich, 1180-1197
  • Mstislav II Romanovic, 1197-1213
  • Vladimir Riurikovich, 1212/3-1219
  • Mstislav III Davydovich, 1223-1231
  • Rostislav II Mstislavich, 1231/2
  • Sviatoslav I Mstislavich, 1232-1239
  • Vsevolod Mstislavich, 1239-1249
  • Gleb I Rostislavich, 1249-1278
  • Mikhail Rostislavich, 1278/1279
  • Fedor Rostislavich ("The Black"), 1279/80-1287
  • Aleksandr Glebovich, 1297-1313
  • Ivan Aleksandrovich, 1313-1359
  • Sviatoslav II Ivanovich, 1359-1386
  • Iurii Sviatoslavich, 1386-1394
  • Gleb II Sviatoslavich, 1394-1395
  • Iurii Sviatoslavich (again), 1401-1407
  • Lithuanian rule

[edit] References

  • 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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