Royal kin and queens · The Kiev land of Rurik Rostislavich · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Vladimir Rurikovich

A boy of about twelve, Rurik's younger son and second heir, kept at his father's side.

He holds no town that the sources name for 1200; he may have had nominal charge of Belgorod, which he held later, but that is not pinned. He grows up to be prince of Kiev in the 1220s.

Who he is

Name
Vladimir Rurikovich (baptised Dmitry)
Title
Prince (no appanage pinned for 1200)
Since
not pinned
Born
1187 (Ermolaev, via en.wikipedia); about 12 on 1 January 1200
Family
Second son of Rurik Rostislavich. His marriage is not pinned for 1200: en.wikipedia's article on Vsevolod III lists an Anna Vsevolodovna married to 'Vladimir, prince of Belgorod, who died in 1239', which would be this Vladimir, but the list is garbled and the date is not given.
Confidence
medium

Later prince of Pereyaslavl (1206-1213), Smolensk (1213-1219) and Kiev (1223-1235 with interruptions); died 1239. Nothing places him in a town of his own on 1 January 1200.

Overlord

His father Rurik.

What it holds

  • No appanage pinned for 1200

How it was acquired

Not applicable.

Allies and rivals

His father and brother.

How things stand that morning

At his father's court; no holding of his own pinned.

Wealth

His father's household.

Military

None of his own.

Threats

  • His father's fall

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Birth year from a modern genealogy; no source places him that winter.

Primary sources for Kiev (Rurik Rostislavich)

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

  • The Hypatian Chronicle (the Kievan Chronicle compiled about 1200 at the Vydubichi monastery; the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle in the 13th century). The southern record. Read online
  • The Laurentian Chronicle (the Suzdal continuation kept in the late 12th and 13th centuries; manuscript 1377). The court record of Vsevolod III of Vladimir. Read online
  • The Tale of Igor's Campaign (about 1187 to 1200 (disputed)). A poem on Igor Sviatoslavich's defeat by the Polovtsians in 1185 that addresses the princes of the day by name: Vsevolod of Vladimir, Rurik and David Rostislavich, Yaroslav of Galich, Roman of Volhynia and the Olgovichi of Chernigov, of whom Igor himself was prince from 1198. Read online

Sources and studies

  1. Vladimir III Rurikovich (English Wikipedia; citing Ermolaev 2002 and the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine)
  2. Vsevolod the Big Nest (English Wikipedia)

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.