Rurik Rostislavich
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Rurik Rostislavich (also spelled Riurik;Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn c. 1140Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 19 April 1212)Template:Efn[1] was Prince of Novgorod (1170–1171), Belgorod (1173–1194), Grand Prince of Kiev (1173;Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1180–1181; 1194–1201; 1203–1204; 1205-1206; 1207–1210),Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and Prince of Chernigov (1210–1212).
Life
Rurik, also known under his baptismal name Basil,[1] was the son of Rostislav I of Kiev.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In the 1160s, he ruled the province of Drevlians before becoming the prince of Ovruch (1168).[1] Succession conflicts intermittently placed Rurik on the throne of the Kievan Rus' no fewer than six times between 1173 and 1210.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Between 1173 and 1181 Rurik spent brief periods as a ruler of Novgorod the Great and Kiev.[1]
According to the account in the Kievan Chronicle,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Rurik became co-ruler with Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich of Kiev (who had become prince of Kiev in 1177),Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". a "duumvirate" arrangement that lasted until Sviatoslav's death in 1194.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". According to the Novgorod Fourth Chronicle and Sofia First Chronicle tradition sub anno 6688 (1180) and 6693 (1185), Sviatoslav reigned alone, and there is no mention of Rurik as co-prince.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". After the death of Sviatoslav in 1194, he became Prince of Kiev in his own right. A conflict with the Olgovichi house, as well as with Galician prince Roman Mstislavich led to his deposition.[1]
The loss of power over Kiev led Rurik to seek alliance with Cumans.[1] After a brief stint in Chernigov, where he built the Church of St. Paraskebas,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Rurik, along with his kinsmen and a Cuman army, attacked and sacked Kiev in 1203,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". but was repelled until Roman's death in 1205.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Rurik had been confined to a monastery in 1204, but he abandoned his holy vows and returned to the throne.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
His cousin, Vsevolod Chermny, felt that Rurik's previous monastic vows rendered his authority invalid, and so attacked and briefly seized Kiev in 1206, 1207, and 1211.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 1210, Rurik was forced to abdicate the Kievan throne to Vsevolod. For the remainder of his life he governed in Chernigov.[1]
Rurik was married to Anna of Turov; among their children was Rostislav II of Kiev.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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