Russian prince (died c. 1228)
Mstislav Mstislavich the Daring
, also called
the Able
[a]
[2]
(died
c.
1228
), was a
prince
of
Tmutarakan
and
Chernigov
,
[3]
one of the princes from
Kievan Rus'
in the decades preceding the
Mongol invasions
.
Biography
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Mstislav Mstislavich was the son of
Mstislav Rostislavich
("the Brave") of
Smolensk
by a princess of
Ryazan
; his grandfather was
Rostislav I of Kiev
. In 1193 and 1203, Mstislav was commended for his bravery in the
Kipchak
wars, bringing him fame all over Kievan Rus'. At that time, he married Maria, a daughter of the Kipchak
Khan
Kotyan
. In 1209, he was mentioned as a ruler of
Toropets
. A year later, he came and took the
Novgorodian
throne, seizing
Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich
's men (Sviatoslav himself was detained in the archbishop's compound in Novgorod).
[4]
On his way to Novgorod, Mstislav delivered the key town of
Torzhok
from a siege laid to it by
Vsevolod III
of
Vladimir
. He led two successful Novgorodian campaigns against the
Chudes
in 1212 and 1214. In 1215, he expelled
Vsevolod IV
from
Kiev
and elevated his uncle
Mstislav Romanovich
to the throne.
[5]
In 1216, Mstislav mustered a large coalition of princes of Rus' which defeated
Vladimir-Suzdal
in the
Battle of Lipitsa
. After that, he installed his ally
Konstantin of Rostov
as
Grand Prince of Vladimir
and married his own daughter to
Yaroslav of Suzdal
, who had fortified himself in Torzhok. In the meantime, his other enemies had him deposed in Novgorod, and Mstislav had to abandon northern Rus' for
Galicia
. In 1219, he concluded peace with his chief rival,
Daniel of Galicia
, who thereupon married Mstislav's daughter Anna.
[6]
In 1223, Mstislav joined a coalition of perhaps 18 princes, which, along with
Cuman
(Polovtsian) allies, pursued the
Mongols
from the
Dnieper River
for nine days and
joined battle with them at the Kalka River
. While three princes were captured and later killed at the battle site, and six more were killed in headlong pursuit back to the Dnieper River, Mstislav is the only prince specifically named among the nine or so who escaped. He managed to escape by cutting loose the boats on the Dnieper River so he could not be pursued.
[7]
Mstislav reigned in Galicia until 1227, when
boyar
intrigues constrained him to leave the city to his son-in-law,
Andrew of Hungary
. Thereupon he retired to
Torchesk
, where he died in 1228.
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Family
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He was the maternal grandfather of Prince
Alexander Nevsky
,
Prince of Novgorod
,
Grand Prince of Kiev
and
Grand Prince of Vladimir
. He also was the maternal grandfather of prince
Leo I of Galicia
, who became
Grand Prince of Kiev
.
He married a daughter of Kotyan and had issue:
Notes
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Succession
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References
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- ^
The original nickname was The Lucky (or The Fortunate), "Udatny", later transformed to "Udaloy", i.e. The Bold.
- ^
Profiles of great Russians, army and navy, Sankt Petersburg 2008 (
ISBN
978-5-7580-0019-9
), page 10; translation: Mistislav the Bold
Prince of Tmutarakan and Chernigov.
- ^
Michael C. Paul, "Was the Prince of Novgorod a 'Third-rate Bureaucrat' after 1136?"
Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas
56, No. 1 (2008): 91.
- ^
Paul, "Third-rate Bureaucrat" 91-92.
- ^
ГРУШЕВСЬКИЙ, Михайло (1901).
"ХРОНОЛОГ?Я ПОД?Й ГАЛИЦЬКО-ВОЛИНСЬКОГО Л?ТОПИСУ"
.
Записки Наукового товариства ?мен? Шевченка
(in Ukrainian).
41
: 1?72
. Retrieved
8 August
2021
.
- ^
A. N. Nasonov, ed.,
Novgorodskaia pervaia letopis: starshego i mladshego
izvodov (Moscow and Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1950), 63, 267; John Fennell,
The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304
(London and New York: Longman,1983), 66-68.
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