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Please place your
cursor over a box to see if it is linked to a short description of the
individual. More details of the lives and exploits of these men and
women will be found at each biographical entry, and in some cases also in the
biographies of their opponents. Vladimir Yaroslavich was the second eldest son
of Yaroslav Vladimirovich (the Wise ) who was Prince of Kyiv from 1019 to 1054.
But the eldest son, Elias, who was sent as prince of Novgorod, died in 1020 the
year Vladimir was born. Yaroslav designated lands in the Galicia region of
western Rus for Yaroslav. Then he sent the 14-year-old Vladimir as prince (his
representative) at Novgorod about in 1034. Evidently Vladimir was very
successful as a military commander, because Yaroslav designated him as official
princely commander of a very large naval expedition against Byzantium. in 1043.
The expedition failed but Vladimir escaped and returned to Rus. That year he
married Oda, the daughter of Lippold, Count of Stade. They had a son,
Rostislav, born around 1045 and another named Yaropolk about which little is
know. Vladimir predeceased his father in 1052, leaving his son, Rostislav
approximately 8 years old. Rostislav apparently inherited Vladimir's land in
Galicia, but in 1064 he went to the Rus outpost city, Tmutorokan, on the Taman
Penninsula.He was poisoned there by Byzantine agents in 1067. Rostislav had
married Anna Lanka, the daughter of King Andrei I of Hungary. I presume this
took place around 1160, while Rostislav was living in Galicia, near Hungary.
They had three sons, Rurik, Volodar, and Vasil'ko, of which the last was born
in 1162. These sons made their homes in Galicia where they came into conflict
with David Igor'yevich as well as Hungarian,
Polish, and Polovtsi rulers. But they also tried their hands at Tmutorokan.
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