Town · The other Volhynian princes (Lutsk, Peresopnitsa, Belz) · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Lutsk

The second town of Volhynia, named in the chronicle from 1085, on a rise in the marshes of the Styr.

Seat of the Lutsk branch of the Izyaslavichi since the 1150s and of Ingvar since the early 1180s.

Who holds it

Name
Ingvar Yaroslavich
Title
Prince of Lutsk
Since
1180-1183
Confidence
medium

Lord in 1200

Prince Ingvar Yaroslavich (Ingvar of Lutsk).

How things stand that morning

Ingvar's seat; he follows Roman.

Charter

No written charter: towns of Rus' held no chartered privileges in 1200; the townsmen acted through their assembly (veche) and their elders.

Council

None recorded for 1200.

Fairs and markets

None recorded.

Militia

Ingvar's retinue and the town host.

Walls and castle

Timber castle on a marsh island in the Styr (the stone castle on the site is of the 14th century).

Trade and crafts

Furs, honey and wax of Volhynian Polesia; the Kiev to Vladimir road.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Ingvar's tenure is from the handbooks.

Primary sources for The Volhynian princes apart from Roman

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
  • Chronicle of the Poles, by Master Vincent (Wincenty Kadłubek), Wincenty Kadłubek (about 1190 to 1208). Book 4 is a contemporary's account of the fight for the senior throne of Kraków. 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. Ingvar Yaroslavich (English Wikipedia)

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