Prince of Pereyaslavl

The Prince of Pereyaslavl was the "kniaz" (the ruler or sub-ruler) of the Rus Principality of Pereyaslavl, a lordship based on the city of Pereyaslavl (now "Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi") on the Trubezh river [Martin, "Medieval Russia", p. 4.] and straddling extensive territory to the east in what are now parts of Ukraine. It lay on Rus civilization's southern frontier with the steppe.

The principality emerges was apportioned as the inheritance of Vsevolod Yaroslavich, son of Yaroslav the Wise; his brotherSvyatoslav received Chernigov, while Smolensk went to Vyacheslav and Vladimir-in-Volhynia to Igor; this ladder of succession is related to the seniority order mentioned above. [Martin, "Medieval Russia", p. 26.] Vsevolod's appanage included the northern lands of Rostov and the lighly colonised north-eastern zone of Rus (see Vladimir-Suzdal). [See [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/RUSSIA,%20Rurik.htm#_Toc111997307 here] .]

The "Primary Chronicle" recorded that in 988 Vladimir had assigned the northern lands (later associated with Pereyaslavl) to Yaroslav. [Martin, "Medieval Russia", p. 38.] The town was destroyed by the Mongols in March 1239, the first of the great Rus cities to fall. [Martin, "Medieval Russia", p. 139.] Certainly from the reign of Vsevolod Yaroslavich, the princes of Pereyaslavl held the principality of Rostov-Suzdal, which was heavily colonized by Slavs thereafter, a process which strengthened the region's power and independence, separating the two regions. [Cross (ed.), "The Russian Primary Chronicle", p. 297.]

In 1132, Yaropolk became Grand Prince on his brother Mstislav's death, while the Monomashichi descended into general internecine conflict over the Pereyaslavl principality. Yaropolk appointed Vsevolod Mstislavich, prince of Novgorod, to the principality of Pereyaslavl - in this era designated heir to the Kievan throne [Martin, "Medieval Russia", p. 174.] - thus provoking Yaropolk's younger brother Yuri Dolgoruki, controller of Suzdal, into war. Yuri drove out Vsevolod, whom Yaropolk then replaced with Izyaslav. An agreement was reached by 1134 between Yuri and Yaropolk that their common brother Vyacheslav would take the throne of Pereyaslavl. [Martin, "Medieval Russia", pp. 105-6.]

List of princes of Pereyaslavl

* Yaroslav Vladimirovich, 988—1010
* Boris Vladimirovich
* Elias Yaroslavich, c. 1019
* —
* Vsevolod Yaroslavich, 1054-1076
* Rostislav Vsevolodich, d. 1093
* Vladimir Vsevolodich, 1076—1078
* Rostislav Vsevolodich, 1078—1093
* Vladimir Vsevolodich (again), 1094—1113
* Svyatoslav Vladimirovich, d. 1114
* Yaropolk Vladimirovich, 1114-1132
* Vsevolod Mstislavich, 1132 x 1134
* Izyaslav Mstislavich, 1132 x 1134
* Vyacheslav Vladimirovich, 1132-1134
* Andrey Vladimirovich, 1135-1141
* Vyacheslav Vladimirovich (again), 1142
* Iziaslav Mstislavich , 1143-1145
* Mstislav Izyaslavich, 1146-1149
* Rostislav Yurevich, 1149-1151
* Mstislav Izyaslavich (again), 1151-1155
* Gleb Yurevich, 1155-1169
* Vladimir Glebovich, appointed 1169, died 1187
* Yaroslav Mstislavich ??
* Vsevolod Yurevich, ?-1206
* Vsevolod Chermnyi Svyatoslavich, 1206
* Ryurik Rostislavich, 1206-?
* Vladimir Ryurikovich, 1206-1213

ee also

* Vladimir-Suzdal#Grand Princes of Vladimir-Suzdal

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External links

* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/RUSSIA,%20Rurik.htm#_Toc111997324 Foundation for medieval genealogy]