Royal kin and queens · Novgorod the Great · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Yaroslav Vladimirovich

Vsevolod's man in Novgorod for most of seventeen years.

The town expelled him on St George's day in the autumn of 1196 when Vsevolod held its envoys; he sat at Novy Torg, whose people welcomed him, then went to Vladimir at Vsevolod's call and came back to Novgorod in the winter of 1197-98, a week after Epiphany, with the town's honour. He led the town against Yuryev and Otepää (1191-92), against the Yem with the Karelians (1191) and to Lake Kasplya against Polotsk (1198-99), and he made the treaty with the Germans and Gotlanders. He built the Transfiguration church on the Nereditsa hill (June to September 1198) and St Nicholas at the Gorodishche (1191); his princess founded the convent of the Nativity on Mikhalitsa in 1199.

His young sons Izyaslav, prince at Luki, and Rostislav both died in the spring of 1198 and lie in St George's. In 1199 Vsevolod took him out of Novgorod to make room for his own son. Where he is on 1 January 1200 is not pinned.

Who he is

Name
Yaroslav Vladimirovich
Title
former prince of Novgorod
Since
Out of office since 1199, when Vsevolod took him out of Novgorod (chronicle under 6707).
Born
not pinned
Family
Son of Vladimir Mstislavich (1132-1171, briefly prince of Kiev in 1171) and his wife, a daughter of the Serbian ban Beloš; grandson of Mstislav the Great. His wife is usually said to be a sister of Vsevolod III's wife Maria, which made him Vsevolod's brother-in-law (not checked in this run). Children born in Novgorod according to the chronicle: a daughter (1189); Izyaslav, baptised Mikhail (1190), set as prince at Luki as a boy, died there in the spring of 1198; a son born in 1191; Rostislav (1193), died at Novgorod in the spring of 1198.
Confidence
medium

Novgorod chronicle under 6697-6707; en.wikipedia Vladimir III Mstislavich for his father.

Overlord

Vsevolod III, who placed him in Novgorod and took him out.

What it holds

  • no land or office in Novgorod on 1 January 1200
  • his family's foundations: the Nereditsa church, the Mikhalitsa convent founded by his princess, his sons' graves at St George's

How it was acquired

Given to Novgorod by Vsevolod in 1182 and again in 1187 and 1197-98.

Allies and rivals

Vsevolod (his patron), the people of Novy Torg (who welcomed him in 1196). Rivals: the Novgorod party that expelled him in 1196.

How things stand that morning

Withdrawn from Novgorod in 1199; whereabouts and any new holding not pinned.

Military

None on 1 January 1200.

Where the sources disagree

  • Some lists keep him in Novgorod until 1200; the chronicle has him taken out in 1199, before Sviatoslav's arrival on 1 January 1200.

Evidence: His reigns, campaigns and churches are in the Novgorod chronicle; his marriage tie to Vsevolod and his later life were not checked in this run.

On the map: Not drawn: he holds nothing on 1 January 1200.

Primary sources for Novgorod

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.

Sources and studies

  1. The Chronicle of Novgorod 1016-1471 (Novgorod First Chronicle), tr. R. Michell and N. Forbes (1914): entries for 1164-1215 read through the archive.org full-text search (scan pp. 76-106)
  2. Wikipedia (en): Vladimir III Mstislavich

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