Przemyśl

Who holds it

Name

Roman Mstislavich, prince of Vladimir and Galich

Title

Prince of Galich (through a governor)

Since

1199

Confidence

high

Lord in 1200

Roman Mstislavich, through a governor not named for 1200.

How things stand that morning

Part of Roman's Galicia since 1199; no separate prince. The see of Przemyśl is first named in 1220 (not pinned for 1200).

Charter

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

Council

No assembly recorded for 1200.

Fairs and markets

None recorded.

Militia

Town host under the governor; no figures.

Walls and castle

Castle hill above the San with masonry churches and the old rotunda (archaeology); earth-and-timber defences.

Trade and crafts

Salt; the San crossing on the road from Kraków and Hungary to Galich; furs, honey, wax.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Its status as a Galician district seat is clear; its governor is not named.

Primary sources for Roman's Galicia and Volhynia

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 Deeds of the Hungarians, by the Anonymous Notary of King Béla, Anonymus (P. magister) (about 1200 to 1210, the date disputed). Not a record of events but a picture of the kingdom's nobility and geography as a courtier of about 1200 wished to see it: the clans and their lands, the castles and counties, the Vlachs, Cumans and other peoples of the Carpathian basin, all projected back onto the conquest. 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