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)