Prince of Smolensk

The Prince of Smolensk was the kniaz, the ruler or sub-ruler, of the Rus' Principality of Smolensk, a lordship based on the city of Smolensk. It passed between different groups of descendants of Grand Prince Iaroslav I of Kiev until 1125, when following the death of Vladimir Monomakh the latter's grandson Rostislav Mstislavich was installed in the principality, while the latter's father Mstislav I Vladimirovich became Grand Prince. It gained its own bishopric in 1136. It was Rostislav's descendents, the Rostaslavichi, who ruled the principality until the fifteenth-century. Smolensk enjoyed stronger western ties than most Rus' principalities.

List of rulers of Smolensk

Pre-Rostaslavichi

• Stanislav Vladimirovich, 1010–1015
• Viacheslav Iaroslavich, 1054–1057
• Igor Yaroslavich, 1057–1060
• Sviatoslav Iaroslavich(?), 1060-1073 (annexed to Kiev)
• Vladimir Monomakh, 1073-1077/8
• Vladimir Vsevolodich, 1077–1085
• Iziaslav Vladimirovich, 1093–1094
• Davyd I Sviatoslavich, 1094 x 1096
• Mstislav Vladimirovich, 1094 x 1096
• Davyd I Sviatoslavich (again), 1096–1097
• Sviatoslav Vladimirovich, 1097–1113
• Viacheslav Vladimirovich, 1113–1125

Rostaslavichi

• Rostislav Mstislavich, 1125–1160
• Roman Rostislavich, 1159/60-1172
• Iaropolk Romanovich, 1172–1174
• Mstislav I Rostislavich "The Bold", 1175–1177
• Roman Rostislavich (again), 1177–1180
• Davyd Rostislavich, 1180–1197
• Mstislav II Romanovic, 1197–1213
• Vladimir Riurikovich, 1212/3-1219
• Mstislav III Davydovich, 1223–1231
• Rostislav II Mstislavich, 1231/2
• Sviatoslav I Mstislavich, 1232–1239
• Vsevolod Mstislavich, 1239–1249
• Gleb I Rostislavich, 1249–1278
• Mikhail Rostislavich, 1278/1279
• Fedor Rostislavich ("The Black"), 1279/80-1287
• Aleksandr Glebovich, 1297–1313
• Ivan Aleksandrovich, 1313–1359
• Sviatoslav II Ivanovich, 1359–1386
• Iurii Sviatoslavich, 1386–1394
• Gleb II Sviatoslavich, 1394–1395
• Iurii Sviatoslavich (again), 1401–1407
• Lithuanian rule

References

• Franklin, Simon, and Shepard, Jonathan, The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200, (Longman History of Russia, Harlow, 1996)
• Martin, Janet, Medieval Russia, 980-1584, (Cambridge, 1995)

External links

• Medieval Lands Project