The other Volhynian princes (Lutsk, Peresopnitsa, Belz)

Who rules

Name

Ingvar Yaroslavich of Lutsk, his brother Mstislav Yaroslavich the Mute of Peresopnitsa, and Alexander Vsevolodovich of Belz

Title

No single ruler. The senior is Ingvar Yaroslavich, prince of Lutsk

Since

Lutsk: Ingvar since 1180-1183; Belz: Alexander since his father's death in 1195 or 1196

Born

not pinned for any of them

Family

Two branches of the Izyaslavichi of Volhynia. Ingvar and Mstislav are sons of Yaroslav Izyaslavich of Lutsk (died 1180), so first cousins of Roman; Alexander is the son of Roman's brother Vsevolod Mstislavich of Belz (prince of Belz 1170-1196).

Confidence

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en.wikipedia (Ingvar Yaroslavich) gives Ingvar Lutsk from 1180 to 1220, says he took Lutsk from his brother Vsevolod in 1183 and that he held Dorogobuzh in the early 1180s; en.wikipedia (Belz) gives Vsevolod Mstislavich Belz from 1170 to 1196. Mstislav the Mute's tenure at Peresopnitsa before 1200 rests on his later style; we found no dated source for 1199-1200.

Overlord

None formal. They hold their own patrimonies and follow Roman Mstislavich as the senior and strongest prince of Volhynia.

What the realm holds

• Lutsk and its land on the Styr (Ingvar: Ingvar of Lutsk)
• Peresopnitsa and its land on the Stubla (Mstislav the Mute: Mstislav the Mute)
• Dorogobuzh on the Horyn and Shumsk (holders not pinned; the Lutsk branch's sphere)
• Belz and its land on the Solokiya and the middle Bug, perhaps with old Cherven (Alexander: Alexander of Belz)

How it was acquired

The Lutsk branch inherited Lutsk and the Pogorynia towns from Yaroslav Izyaslavich (died 1180), who held them from the 1150s; Ingvar secured Lutsk by 1183. Belz was Vsevolod Mstislavich's share of his father's lands in 1170 and passed to his son Alexander.

Allies and rivals

Allies: Roman Mstislavich; Leszek the White (who will marry a daughter of Ingvar in 1207 or 1208, later; older writers call her Grzymisława). Rivals: Rurik of Kiev and the Olgovichi; the Turov and Pinsk princes on their northern edge (thin); the Yotvingians and Lithuanians.

The realm that morning

Ingvar sits at Lutsk, Mstislav at Peresopnitsa, Alexander at Belz. They follow Roman (allegiance galicia). Their eastern edge meets the Kiev land and the Bolokhovian land on the upper Sluch; to the north lie Turov and Pinsk (kie).

Wealth

Furs, honey, wax and grain of the Volhynian upland and the Polesian woods; the Kiev to Vladimir road passes through their towns (Dorogobuzh, Peresopnitsa, Lutsk).

Military

Princely retinues and town hosts; earth-and-timber forts at Lutsk, Peresopnitsa, Dorogobuzh and Belz. No figures are known.

Threats

• A quarrel with Roman over seniority or Kiev
• Lithuanian and Yotvingian raids from the north
• Being drawn into Rurik's or the Olgovichi's wars

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 1201 or 1202 (later)Roman installs Ingvar as prince of Kiev in Rurik's place, with Vsevolod III's consent; Rurik recovers Kiev in 1203.Depends on: Roman's war with Rurik going as it did. Stopped by: A settlement between Roman and Rurik.

Where the sources disagree

• The Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Roman Mstyslavych) says Roman 'consolidated power in Volhynia by taking the appanages of Lutsk and Berestia'; en.wikipedia keeps Ingvar at Lutsk from 1180 to 1220. This file keeps Lutsk with Ingvar on 1 January 1200 and treats Roman's hold over it as seniority.

Evidence: Princes' tenures are known from scattered chronicle notices of the 1180s and the 1200s-1220s; nothing pins them to the winter of 1199-1200 itself.

On the map: The borders of these appanages with Roman's Vladimir and with the Kiev land are not recorded for 1200; the lines follow the Styr, the Horyn and the Kremenets hills and are rough.

Primary sources for this realm

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