Mstislav II of Kiev

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Assumption Cathedral in Volodymyr-Volynskyi was built by Mstislav in 1160.

Mstislav II Izyaslavich (Мстислав Изяславич in Russian) (died 1172), Kniaz' (Prince) of Pereyaslav, Volodymyr-Volynsky and Velikiy Kniaz (Grand Prince) of Kiev (1167–1169, 1170). Son of Izyaslav Mstislavich, Velikiy Kniaz' (Grand Prince) 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 Psyol 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 Volodymyr-Volynsky. Dolgoruky died in 1157, and Mstislav had himself crowned at Volodymyr-Volynsky.

In 1169, Kiev was sacked by Grand Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky who removed Mstislav as grand prince.[1] Mstislav passed his exile in Byzantium and during Emperor Manuel I's reign, was rewarded the district of Otskalana.[2]

In 1151 Mstislav married Agnes, the daughter of Duke Boleslaus III of Poland.[3] They had three sons:

  1. Roman Mstislavich (c. 1152–1205)
  2. Sviatoslav Mstislavich, Prince of Brest
  3. Vsevolod Mstislavich of Volhynia, Prince of Belz, Prince of Volodymyr-Volynsky (died 1196)

His death is reported in 1172 in the book Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, Jiri Louda and Michael Maclagan. Clarkson N Potter, New York 1981 in Table 135

Ancestry

Family of Mstislav II of Kiev
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16.Vsevolod I of Kiev
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8.Vladimir II Monomakh
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17.NN of Byzantine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4.Mstislav I of Kiev
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18.Harold Godwinson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9.Gytha of Wessex
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19.Edith the Fair
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.Iziaslav II of Kiev
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20.Stenkil
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10.Inge the Elder
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21.Ingamoder
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5.Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22.?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11.Helena of Yngling
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23.?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1.Mstislav II of Kiev
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24.Frederick von Büren
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12.Frederick I, Duke of Swabia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25.Hildegard of Egisheim-Dagsburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6.Conrad III of Germany
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26.Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13.Agnes of Germany
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27.Bertha of Savoy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3.Agnes von Stauffen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28.?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14.Henry, Count of Rothenburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29.?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7.Gertrude of Comburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30.?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15.Gepa of Mergentheim
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31.?
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. Janet Martin, Treasure of the Land of Darkness: The Fur Trade and Its Significance for Medieval Russia, (Cambridge University Press, 1986), 127.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
Preceded by Grand Prince of Kiev
1167–1169
1170
Succeeded by
Gleb I


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