The Family of RURIK

 

 

Part 1

 

 

Rurik was from Altladoga, and moved to Novgorod, living there ca 862/79. He may have been related to one Oleg (Helgi Haelghe) "the Magician" Great Prince of Kiev, who d.912. Rurik was father of Igor (Ingwar), who was apparently Great Prince of Kiev and d.ca 945; Igor m. Olga ___, who ruled as regent after his death; she d.969. Their son was Swiatoslaw I, Great Prince of Kiev 957-72 (941-972). He m. Predslawa, a dau.of the Hungarian Prince Zerind, and they had issue:

 

1a) Jaropolk I, Gr Pr of Kiev 972-80, murdered 980; he m.a Greek lady

 

1b) Swjatopolk I; he was adopted by his stepfather/uncle Wladimir, whom he succeeded in 1015 as Gr Pr of Kiev; he d.after 1019; m.before 15 Jul 1015 a dau.of King Boleslaw I of Poland

 

2a) Oleg, Pr of Drewljamen d.977

 

3a) [St.] Wladimir I, Gr Pr of Kiev, d.1015; m.1st Rogned (entered a monastery, d.1002) dau.of Pr Rogwolod of Polotzk; m.2nd a Greek woman, widow of his older brother; m.3rd 987/9 Anna, dau.of Emperor Romanos II of Byzantium; m.4th after 1011 a dau (d.after 14 Aug 1018) of Kuno [?Gf von Oehningen]; of Wladimir's children, the first three listed seem to have been by Rogned, and the maternity of the others is uncertain, though one source says that the Margravine of Nordmark was dau. of the second wife

 

1b) Jaroslaw I "the Wise", Gr Pr of Kiev 1019-54 (980-1054); m.1st NN (dsp); m.2nd Ingegerd=Anna (d.1050), dau of King Olaf of Sweden

 

1c) Wladimir, Pr of Novgorod (1020-1052); m.NN

 

1d) Rosislaw, Pr of Rostov, Novgorod and Wladimir (1045-3 Feb 1067); m.NN

 

1e) Rjurik, Pr of Przemysl, d.1092

 

2e) Wladimir, Pr of Przemysl, d.19 Mar 1124; m. N of Pomerania

 

1f) Wladimirko, Pr of Halicz, d.1153; m.a dau.of King Koloman of Hungary

 

1g) Jaroslaw, Pr of Halicz, d.1 Oct 1187; m.1st (repudiated 1185) Olga, dau.of Pr Jurij Dolgorukij of Suzdal; m.2nd NN (dsp)

 

1h) Wladimir, Pr of Przemysl and Halicz, d.1199; m.1167 Maria, dau.of Pr Roman of Wolhynia and Halicz

 

1i) Wasilko, d.in Hungary 1188; m.1187 (div 1188) Feodora (d.after 1200) dau.of Pr Roman of Wolhynia

 

2i) Wladimir, d.in Hungary 1188

 

3i) [illegitimate] Oleg, Pr of Halicz, d.1189

 

2h) Jewfrosinija; m.Pr Igor of Novgorod-Sevyersk (d.1202)

 

3h) Wjatcheslawa (d.after 1200); m.after 1184 Pr Odo of Posen (d.1194)

 

4h) a dau., m.Pr Jaroslaw of Halicz (d.1180)

 

5h) a dau., m.1167 (repudiated 1168) King István III of Hungary

 

2f) Rostislaw, Pr of Przemysl and Halicz, d.1126; m.NN

 

1g) Ivan, d.in Greece 1121; m.NN

 

1h) Rostislaw, murdered 1189

 

3f) Irina

 

4f) a dau., m.1114 Pr Roman of Wolhynia (d.1119)

 

3e) Wasilko, Pr of Terespol and Halicz, blinded 1097, d.1124/5; m.NN

 

1f) Ivan, Pr of Halicz, d.1141; m.Anna, dau.of Pr Wsewelod of Tschernigov

 

2f) Grigorij=Rostislaw, Pr of Terespol, d.1144

 

3f) a dau., m.Duke Wratislaw of Moravia (d.1156)

 

2c) Isjaslaw I, Pr of Novgorod 1054-68, Gr Pr of Kiev 1054-78 (1025-k.a.3 Oct 1078); m.ca 1043 Gertruda (d.4 Jan 1108) dau.of King Mieszko II of Poland

 

1d) Mstislav, Pr of Polotzk, d.1069/70; m.NN

 

2d) Jaropolk Pjotr, Pr of Wladimir and Turov (b.before 1050, d.1087); m.ca 1073 Kunigunde, dau.of Otto Gf von Orlamünde, Mkgf der Nordmark

 

1e) Jaroslaw, d.11 Aug 1103

 

2e) Wjatcheslaw, d.13 Dec 1104

 

3e) Wassilko

 

4e) Anastasia (1074-8 Jan 1159); m.Pr Gleb of Minsk (d.1119)

 

5e) a dau., b.1076; m.after 1087 Günther von Schwarzburg, German King (d.1109)

 

3d) Swjatopolk II Mikhail, 1078-89 Pr of Novgorod and Turov, 1089-93 Pr of Turov, 1093-1113 Gr Pr of Kiev (1050-16 Apr 1113); m.1st NN; m.2nd 1094 a dau.of Khan Tugor of the Polovotzians; m.3rd ca 1103 Barbara Komnene

 

[by 1st m.]:

 

1e) Jaroslaw I, Pr of Wladimir, k.a.1123; m.1st before 1091 a dau.of King Ladislaus I of Hungary; m.2nd before 1108 a dau.of Pr Wladislaw I Herman of Poland; m.3rd 1112 (repudiated 1118) a dau.of Gr Pr Mstislaw of Kiev

 

[by 2nd m.]:

 

1f) Georgi, Pr of Turov; m.a dau (d.after 1190) of Pr Wsewelod of Gorodeno

 

1g) Swjatopolk, Pr of Turov, d.1190; m.NN

 

1h) Wladimir, Pr of Pinsk ca 1207

 

2h) Rostislav, Pr of Pinsk, living 1236

 

1i) Wladimir, Pr of Pinsk

 

1j) Fjodor, Pr of Pinsk

2j) Georgij, Pr of Pinsk, d.1292; he had 2 sons who d.young

3j) Dionid, Pr of Pinsk

 

2i) Mikhail, Pr of Pinsk

 

2g) Ivan, Pr of Turov

 

3g) Gleb, Pr of Dubrovika and Turov; m.NN

 

1h) Alexander, Pr of Dubrovika, d.1223; m.Vera, dau.of Gr Pr Wsewelod of Kiev

 

4g) Jaroslaw II, Pr of Pinsk; m.Euphrosynja (d.1202) dau.of Pr Boris of Bjelgorod

 

5g) Jaropolk, Pr of Pinsk; m.1190 NN

 

6g) Anna; m.Rurik II, Gr Pr of Kiev (d.1215)

 

7g) Malmfred; m.1166 Pr Wsewelod of Luck (d.after 1209)

 

2f) Sophia, d.1158; m.Pr Rostislaw of Minsk and Polotzk (d.1162)

 

[by 3rd m.]:

 

3f) Swjatcheslaw, Pr of Smolensk and Kleck, b.after 1112, d.after 1128

 

4f) [parentage not certain] Pribislawa, d.1156; m.ca 1136 Duke Ratibor I of Pomerania (d.1155/6)

 

2e) Anna, d.after 1136; m.1103 Pr Boleslaw of Smolensk (d.1143)

 

3e) Sbislawa, d.1109/12; m.1103 Pr Boleslaw III of Poland (d.1138)

 

4e) Predslawa; m.1104 King Almos of Croatia (d.1129)

 

[by 3rd m.]:

 

5e) Brjatcheslaw (1104-1127)

 

6e) Isjaslaw, d.1128

 

7e) Marija, d.after 1145; m.ca 1118 Peter Wlast (d.1153)

 

8e) [illegitimate] Mstislaw, k.a.1099

 

4d) Swjatoslaw

5d) Wsewelod

6d) Igor

 

3c) Swjatoslaw I, 1054 Pr of Tschernigov, Gr Pr of Kiev 1073-6 (1027-27 Dec 1076); m.a dau.of Etheler Gf von Dithmarschen

 

1d) Gleb, Pr of Novgorod, k.a.30 May 1078

 

2d) Roman "the Handsome" Pr of Tmutorokan, k.a.2 Aug 1079

 

3d) David, Pr of Smolensk and Tschnernigov, d.1123; m.NN

 

1e) Swjatoslaw, Pr of Luck, b.1080, became monk 1108, d.1145; m.Anna, dau.of Gr Pr Swjatopolk II of Kiev

 

1f) a dau., m.1123 Pr Wsewelod of Novgorod and Pskov (d.1138)

 

2e) Isjaslaw III, Pr of Tschernigov, Gr Pr of Kiev 1161-7, k.a.6 Mar 1167; m.NN

 

1f) a dau., m.Pr Gleb of Perejaslawl (d.1171)

 

3e) Wsewelod, Pr of Murom; m.1124 a dau.of Pr Boleslaw III of Poland

 

1f) Wsjatoslaw, Pr of Tschernigov

2f) Wladimir, d.1201

3f) Rostislav

 

4e) Rostislaw, d.1120

 

5e) Wladimir, Pr of Tschernigov, d.1151; m.1144 a dau.of Pr Wsewolodko of Gorodeno

 

1f) Swjatoslaw, Pr of Wczyz, d.1166/7; m.1159 Rostislawa (d.1167) dau.of Pr Andrej Bogoljubskij of Suzdal

 

4d) Oleg Mikhail "of sad renown", 1073 Pr of Wladimir-Wolhynsk, 1079 Pr of Tmutorokan, 1094 Pr of Tschernigov, 1096 Pr of Murom and Suzdal, 1097 Pr of Novgorod and Rjasan (1058-1 Aug 1115); m.1st before 1083 Theophane Musalonissa; m.2nd a dau. (dsp) of Khan Ossolur of the Polovetzians

 

1e) Wsewelod II, 1127 Pr of Tschernigov, Gr Pr of Kiev 1139-46, d.1 Aug 1146; m.Maria (d.1179) dau.of Gr Pr Mstislaw I of Kiev

 

1f) Swjatoslaw III, Gr Pr of Kiev 1177-94, d.24 Jul 1194; m.1st 1143 Maria, dau.of Pr Wasilko of Polotzk; m.2nd NN (dsp after 1190)

 

1g) Mstislaw, Pr of Tschernigov, k.a.31 May 1223; m.1182 NN

 

1h) Wassilko, Pr of Neswitsch, k.a.31 May 1223

 

2g) Wladimir, 1180-82 Pr of Novgorod, d.1201; m.1177 Febronia, dau.of Gr Pr Jurij of Wladimir

 

3g) Gleb, Pr of Tschernigov, d.after 1219; m.Anastasia, dau.of Pr Rjurik II of Owrutsch

 

1h) Mstislaw, Pr of Tschernigov, d.after 1239; m.NN

 

1i) Andrei, Pr of Tschernigov, k.a.after 1261; m.1261 Olga (d.after 10 Dec 1288) dau.of Pr Wasilko of Halicz

 

2i) a son, b.1233, d.after 1245

 

2h) Jewfemia, sent to Constantinople 1194

 

3h) a dau., k.a.1238; m.1215 Pr Wladimir of Perejaslawl (d.1229)

 

4g) Wsewelod, Gr Pr of Kiev 1210-14, d.1214/5; m.1st 1178 a dau. (1164-1194) of Pr Kazimierz II of Poland; m.2nd NN

 

[by 1st m.]:

 

1h) [St.] Mikhail, Gr Pr of Kiev 1231-40 (1185-k.a.20 Sep 1246); m.ca 1211 Maria (d.after 1241) dau.of Pr Roman of Halicz

 

1i) Rostislav, 1229-30 Pr of Novgorod, 1231-40 Gr Pr of Kiev, 1236/8 Pr of Halicz, 1241 Ban of Slovenia (1225-1263); m.1243 Anna, dau.of King Béla IV of Hungary

 

1j) Constantine

 

2j) Béla, Ban of Macsva, k.a.1272

 

3j) Mikhail, Ban of Bosnia, k.a.1270

 

4j) a dau., m.1st 1255 Pr Michail II Asen of Bulgaria (d.1257); m.2nd 1257 Tsar Koloman II of Bulgaria (d.1258)

 

5j) Kunigunde, d.1285; m.1st 1261 King Przemysl Otakar II of Bohemia (d.1278); m.2nd 1284 Zawisa von Falkenstein und Rosenberg (d.1290)

 

6j) Agrafena, d.1303/7; m.1265 Pr Leszek of Cracow (d.1288)

 

7j) [St.] Margaret, Abbess of Hafeninsel, b.1250, d.after 1290

 

2i) Roman, Pr of Brjansk, d.after 1305; m.Anna N

 

1j) Oleg, Pr of Tschernigov

 

2j) Jelena, d.after 10 Dec 1288; m.Pr Wladimir of Halicz (d.1288)

 

3i) Mstislaw, Pr of Karatschev

 

1j) Tita, Pr of Karatschev

 

1k) Swjatoslaw, Pr of Karatschev; m.1376 Feodora of Lithuania à issue, including the Princes Koltzov-Mossalsky and Princes Khotetovsky

 

2k) Fjodr, Pr of Kosielsk; he was probably ancestor of the Princes Oginsky and Prince Puzyna

 

3k) Ivan, Pr of Kosielsk; m.Agrafena, dau of Oleg, Gr Pr of Rjasan

 

1l) Roman, Pr of Kosielsk à issue, the Princes Gortchakov

 

2l) Fjodr, Pr of Jeletz à issue, including the Princes Jeletzky

 

4k) Adrian, Pr of Zwenigorod; m.Helena of Lithuania

 

1l) Fjodr, Pr of Zwenigorod, k.a.1377 à issue, including the Princes Zwenigorodsky, Rumin-Zwenigorodsky, Barachev-Zwenigorodsky, Schistov-Zwenigorodsky, Zwentzov-Zwenigorodsky and Nozdrowaty-Zwenigorodsky

 

4i) Semjon, Pr of Gluchov à issue, including the Princes Odojevsky

 

5i) Jurij, Pr of Torussa

 

1j) Wsewelod, Pr of Torussa à issue, the Princes Bariatinsky

 

2j) Constantine, Pr of Oboloensk

 

1k) Ivan, Pr of Obolensk

 

1l) Constantine, Pr of Obolensk, k.a.1368

 

1m) Ivan, Pr of Obolensk à issue, the Princes Obolensky

 

2m) Andrei

 

1n) Ivan à issue, the Princes Dolgoruky

 

2n) Wassili à issue, the Princes Stcherbatov

 

3j) Ivan, Pr of Wolkonsk

 

1k) Fjodr, Pr of Tarussky, k.a.8 Sep 1380 à the Princes Wolkonsky

 

6i) Maria, d.1271; m.1227 Pr Wasilko of Rostov (d.1238)

 

7i) Jewfrosina Theodula (1212-1250)

 

[by 2nd m.]:

 

2h) Jaroslaw; m.a dau.of Pr Mstislaw of Novgorod

 

3h) Swjatoslaw; m.a dau.of Pr David of Murom

 

4h) Vera; m.Pr Alexander of Dubrovika (d.1223)

 

5h) Agafija, d.1238; m.Gr Pr Jurij of Wladimir (d.1238)

 

6h) a dau., m.Pr Mikhail of Pronsk (d.1217)

 

5g) Oleg, Pr of Tschernigov, d.1204; m.1st a dau.of Gr Pr Andrej of Wladimir; m.2nd a dau.of Pr Jurij of Rjasan

 

1h) David, Pr of Tschernigov, d.1196; m.1190 a dau.of Pr Igor of Tschernigov

 

1i) Mstislaw

 

6g) a dau., m.1170 Pr Mstislaw of Dorogobusch (d.after 1202)

 

7g) a dau., m.Pr Roman of Rjasan (d.1215)

 

8g) Marija, m.1166 Pr Jaropolk of Wladimir-Wolhynsk (d.1170)

 

2f) Jaroslaw, Pr of Tschernigov (1139/40-1198/9); m.Irina N

 

1g) Rostislaw, Pr of Snov (1174-after 1214); m.1187 Wseslawa, dau.of Gr Pr Wsewelod of Wladimir

 

1h) Wsewelod, Pr of Tschernigov, d.after 1261; m.Anastasija N

 

1i) Andrei; m.1261 Olga (d.ca 1289) dau.of Pr Wasilko of Wolhynia

 

2i) Mikhail

 

2h) [St.] Fjodor, d.1299

 

2g) Jaropolk, Pr of Novgorod-Sevyersky, d.after 1214; m.NN

 

1h) Wsewelod, Pr of Tschernigov

 

3g) a dau., m.1179 Pr Wladimir of Perejaslawl

 

3f) Anna; m.Igor, Pr of Halicz (d.1141)

 

4f) Swenislawa; m.1142 Duke Boleslaw of Silesia (d.1201)

 

2e) David

 

3e) Igor, Gr Pr of Kiev 1146, murdered 19 Sep 1147

 

4e) Gleb, Pr of Kursk, d.1138; m.NN

 

1f) Isjaslav, d.1134

 

2f) Rostislav fl 1144

 

5e) Rurik fl 1146

 

6e) Swjatoslaw Nikolai, 1139-41 Pr of Novgorod, 1157 Pr of Tschernigov, d.15 Feb 1164; m.1st 1107 a dau of Khan Aspa of the Polovetzians; m.2nd Maria (d.1164), dau of Petril of Novgorod

 

[by 1st m.]:

 

1f) Oleg, Pr of Novgorod-Sewjersk, d.1180; m.1st 1150 Maria, dau of Pr Jurij of Suzdal; m.2nd 1165 Agafia, dau of Pr Rostislav of Smolensk

 

1g) [ex 2] Swiatoslaw Boris, Pr of Rylsk (b.1167, d.after 1186); m.NN

 

1h) Mstislav, Pr of Rylsk, k.a.1241

 

2f) a dau; m.1123 Pr Wsewelod of Novgorod (d.1136)

 

[by 2nd m.]:

 

3f) Igor, 1180 Pr of Novgorod-Sewjersk, 1199 Pr of Tschernigov (1151-1202); m.Jewfrosinia, dau of Pr Jaroslaw of Halicz

 

1g) Wladimir, Pr of Halicz, d.1210/1; m.a dau of Khan Konczak of the Polovetzians

 

1h) Isjaslaw, Pr of Terespol, d.after 1256

 

2h) Wsewelod

 

2g) Roman, Pr of Novgorod-Sewjersk, Swenogorod and Halicz, d.1211

 

3g) Oleg, Pr of Novgorod-Sewjersk

 

4g) Swjatoslaw, Pr of Wladimir-Wolhynsk and Przemysl (1177-1211); m.NN

 

1h) Agafia; m.1207 Pr Konrad of Masovia

 

2h) Oleg, Pr of Kursk; m.NN

 

1i) Marina, d.1 Mar 1279; m.Pr Wsewelod of Jaroslawl (d.1238)

 

5g) Rostislav, Pr of Novgorod-Sewjersk, d.1211

 

6g) a dau; m.1190 Pr David of Tschernigov (d.1196)

 

4f) Wsewelod, Pr of Kursk and Trubtschewsk, d.1196; m.Olga, dau of Pr Gleb of Perejaslawl

 

5f) Maria; m.1st 1149 Pr Roman of Smolensk, Gr Pr of Kiev (d.1180); m.2nd Pr Roman of Rjasan (d.1215)

 

6f) Maria (1149-1189); m.1166 Pr Jaropolk of Druck (d.1170)

 

5d) Jaroslaw, 1123-27 Pr of Tschernigov, 1127 Pr of Rjasan; for his descendants see Part 2

 

6d) Predslawa, a nun, d.1116

 

4c) Wsewelod I, 1054 Pr of Perejaslawl and Suzdal, 1093 Gr Pr of Kiev (1030-13 Apr 1093); m.1st 1046 Maria (d.1067), dau of Emperor Constantine Monomaches of Byzantium; m.2nd 1067 Anna, a Polish princess (d.7 Oct 1111); for his descendants see Part 3

 

5c) Wjatcheslaw, 1054 Pr of Smolensk, d.1056/7; m.NN

 

1d) Boris, Pr of Tmutorokan, k.a.3 Oct 1078

 

6c) Igor, 1054 Pr of Wladimir-Wolhynsk, 1057 Pr of Smolensk, d.1059/60); m.NN

 

1d) David, Pr of Wladimir-Wolhynsk, 1081-3 Pr of Tmurokan, 1084-1100 Pr of Dorogobusch (1058-25 Dec 1112); m.a dau.of King Wladislaw I Herman of Poland

 

1e) Jaroslaw

 

2e) Wsewelodko Gorodeskij, d.1 Feb 1142; m.1116 Agafija, dau.of Gr Pr Wladimir II of Kiev

 

1f) Boris, Pr of Gorodeno

 

2f) Gleb, Pr of Gorodeno, d.after 1169; m.NN

 

1g) Isjaslaw, k.a.1183

2g) Wladimir

 

3f) Mstislaw, d.after 1183

 

4f) a dau., m.1st 1144 Pr Wladimir of Tschernigov (d.1151); m.2nd ca 1152 Baszkard, Khan of the Polovetzians

 

5f) a dau., d.after 1190; m.1144 Pr Georgij of Turov

 

2d) Wsewelod

 

7c) Elisabeth; m.1044 King Harald III of Norway (k.a.25 Sep 1066)

 

8c) Anastasija, d.after 1074; m.ca 1039 King Andras I of Hungary (d.1060)

 

9c) Anna=Agnes (1036-1076/89); m.1st 1051 King Henri I of France (d.4 Aug 1060); m.2nd ca 1061 Raoul de Valois, Cte de Crépy (d.8 Sep 1074)

 

2b) Wsewelod, Pr of Wladimir=Wolhynsk and Perejaslawl, d.1015

 

3b) Predslawa, mistress of King Boleslaw I of Poland, d.after 1018

 

4b) Wjatcheslaw, Pr of Novgorod, d.1010

 

5b) Swjatoslaw, Pr of Drewljanen, k.a.1015; m.NN

 

1c) Jan, b.1002

 

6b) Boris, Pr of Rostov and Novgorod, k.a.1015

 

7b) Gleb, Pr of Murom, murdered 1015

 

8b) Mstislaw, Pr of Tschernigov, d.1035/6; m.NN

 

1c) Eusthatios, d.1033

 

9b) Pozwizd, d.after 1015

 

10b) Sudislaw, Pr of Pskov, imprisoned 1035-59, d.1063/5

 

11b) Stanislaw, Pr of Smolensk

 

12b) a dau, m.Bernhard IV, Margrave of the Nordmark (d.1044/51)

 

13b) Premislawa, d.1015; m.Pr László "the Bald" of Hungary

 

14b) Maria Dobronega, b.before 1012, d.1087; m.Pr Kazimierz I of Poland (d.1058)