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HOUSE OF IZYASLAV II MSTISLAVICH - 2ND HALF

 
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Please place your cursor over the names to see which are linked to individual descriptions. All the princes are then linked to father and son. Here we have the family of Izyaslav II through his sons Yaropolk and Yaroslav. His descendents through Mstislav II are shown in the linked diagram 28. Please place your cursor over the names to find which have links to descriptions. All the individuals are linked to fathers and sons. Izyaslav II became prince of Kyiv but he retained his hereditary holdings in Volynia. Both Yaropolk and Yaroslav were princes of Lutsk, although Yaroslav was also prince at Novgorod.
The origin of Lutsk is not known. It may have been developed around 1000 by Vladimir I Svyatoslavich on the location of a previous village of the Dulebians. The first mention of Lutsk in the Lavrent'yev chronicle is for 1085 when it was already fortified and was besieged by the Poles. In 1097 Svyatopolk II, prince of Kyiv gave Lutsk to David Svyatoslavich, but he was soon thrown off the throne by David Igoryevich, prince of Vladimir-in-Volynia.
Until the middle 12th century Lutsk continued to be part of the Vol'inya lands and only after 1157 under Yaroslav Izyaslavich (shown above) who died about 1175 was it turned into an independent udel. In 1227 Yaroslav Ingvaryevich (above), sitting on the Lutsk throne, lost his udel to Daniil Romanovich Galitski, who was in process of uniting all Galicia and Volynia into his kingdom. In 1320 Lutsk and its dependencies was taken by Gedimin and united into the Lithuanian principality.

 
     

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