Sviatopolk I of Kiev

Sviatopolk I. (Russian Святополк Владимирович; * 978 or 979, † 1019) was from 1015 to 1019 Grand Prince of Kievan Rus. His surname Okajanny, the Cursed, due to the fact that his father had taken Vladimir I. his mother to wife after her husband, his own half-brother Jaropolk I, had murdered.

Life

Sviatopolk, who was married to a daughter of the Polish king Bolesław I, sat down after the death of Vladimir I. initially in the capital Kiev by. His half-brother Jaroslaw but spending in Novgorod, the second most important city of the Rus, where she gained Scandinavian warriors. As part of the first battles were Boris and Gleb, two other sons of Vladimir murdered, what the Nestor Chronicle Sviatopolk are to blame. In the summer of 1016, the armies of Yaroslav Swjatopolks and stood over three months. Finally it came to the final battle, defeated in the Sviatopolk. He fled to Poland to his father, who then tried to intervene on his behalf in the Kievan Rus. In the summer of 1017 Yaroslav I. and Emperor Henry II, attacked following a prior agreement, to Bolesław I of two sides. In the summer of 1018 Bolesław however, managed to conquer Kiev and use Sviatopolk again as Grand Duke. Although Yaroslav fled to Novgorod, his female relatives and a large pot of gold fell into the hands of the Polish king. Shortly thereafter, however, Jaroslaw Sviatopolk sales back from Kiev. Then Sviatopolk played no political role.