Mstislav II of Kiev

Mstislav II
Mstislav II
	Mstislav enters Kiev in 1159, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible
Grand Prince of Kiev
Reign	22 December 1158 – 1159
Predecessor	Iziaslav II
Successor	Rostislav I
Reign	19 May 1167 – 12 March 1169
Predecessor	Rostislav I
Successor	Gleb I
Reign	March 1170 – April 1170
Predecessor	Gleb I
Successor	Gleb I
Born	c. 1125; Kiev
Died	c. 1170 (aged 44-45)
Spouse	Agnes of Poland
Issue	Roman of Novgorod ; Sviatoslav of Brest; Vsevolod of Volhynia ;
House	Rurik
Father	Iziaslav II of Kiev
Mother	Agnes Hohenstaufen
Religion	Eastern Orthodox

Last updated May 22, 2024

Mstislav II Iziaslavich^{[lower-alpha 1]} (died 19 August 1170) was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1158 to 1159 and again from 1167 to 1169.^[1]

Life

Mstislav was the son of Grand Prince Iziaslav II of Kiev. Along with his father, he participated in the wars against Yury Dolgoruky and the Chernigov princes. After an initial victory against the Cumans in 1153, Mstislav was defeated by the Cumans at the Psel river. Yury Dolgoruky forced him to flee to Poland in 1155, but the next year Mstislav returned with a new army and defeated Dolgoruky at Vladimir-Volynsk. Dolgoruky died in 1157, and Mstislav had himself crowned at Vladimir.

In 1169, Kiev was sacked by Andrey Bogolyubsky who removed Mstislav as grand prince.^[2] Mstislav passed his exile in Byzantium and during the reign of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, was rewarded the district of Otskalana.^[3]

Family

In 1151, Mstislav married Agnes, the daughter of Duke Bolesław III of Poland.^[4] They had three sons:

Roman, Prince of Novgorod (c. 1152–1205)
Sviatoslav, Prince of Brest
Vsevolod Mstislavich of Volhynia (died 1196)

Notes

↑ Russian: Мстислав Изяславич; Ukrainian: Мстислав Ізяславич

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References

↑ Morby, John E. (2002). Dynasties of the world: a chronological and genealogical handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 167. ISBN 9780198604730.
↑ Janet Martin, Treasure of the Land of Darkness: The Fur Trade and Its Significance for Medieval Russia, (Cambridge University Press, 1986), 127.
↑ Rus'-Byzantine Princely Marriages in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Alexander Kazhdan, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 12/13, Proceedings of the International Congress Commemorating the Millennium of Christianity in Rus'-Ukraine (1988/1989), 414.
↑ Nora Berend, Przemysław Urbańczyk and Przemysław Wiszewski, Central Europe in the High Middle Ages: Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c.900–c.1300, (Cambridge University Press, 2013), 226.

Regnal titles
Preceded by Iziaslav II	Grand Prince of Kiev 1158-1159	Succeeded by Rostislav I
Preceded by Rostislav I	Grand Prince of Kiev 1167-1169	Succeeded by Gleb I
Preceded by Gleb I	Grand Prince of Kiev 1170	Succeeded by Gleb I

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[1] Russian: Мстислав Изяславич; Ukrainian: Мстислав Ізяславич

[2] Morby, John E. (2002). Dynasties of the world: a chronological and genealogical handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 167. ISBN 9780198604730.

[3] Janet Martin, Treasure of the Land of Darkness: The Fur Trade and Its Significance for Medieval Russia, (Cambridge University Press, 1986), 127.

[4] Rus'-Byzantine Princely Marriages in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Alexander Kazhdan, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 12/13, Proceedings of the International Congress Commemorating the Millennium of Christianity in Rus'-Ukraine (1988/1989), 414.

[5] Nora Berend, Przemysław Urbańczyk and Przemysław Wiszewski, Central Europe in the High Middle Ages: Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c.900–c.1300, (Cambridge University Press, 2013), 226.

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