Yaropolk Izyaslavich

Jaropolk Pyotr Isjaslawitsch ( * before 1050, † November 22, 1087 or 1086 ) from the family of Rurik was the eldest son of Grand Duke Izjaslav I of Kiev and the Gertrude of Poland, daughter of King Mieszko II Lambert.

During the reign of his father as Grand Duke Jaropolk was temporarily co-regent. In this capacity, he negotiated to 1073, after the Kiev and his uncle had driven his father from the Principality, with Pope Gregory VII, gave him Kiev and received it back as a fief of the apostolic. However, this legal claim he never could prevail.

As Jaropolks father died in 1078, the title of Grand Prince of Kiev went to his brother Vsevolod I. Jaropolk got the principalities of Volhynia ( Vladimir) and Turow. When he was assassinated in 1087, his uncle was still alive, so that its successor went to Jaropolks younger half-brother Sviatopolk, the later Grand Prince of Kiev.

Jaropolk Pyotr Isjaslawitsch married around 1073 Cunegond of Weimar, † June 8, 1140, a daughter of Count Otto I; with her he had (at least) five children:

• Anastasija Jaropolkowna (* 1074, † January 8, 1159 ), ∞ Wseslawitsch Gleb, Prince of Minsk, († November 1119, probably on the 19th ), also from the family of Rurik
• Daughter ( probably 1076 * ), ∞ after 1087 Günther von Schwarzburg († 1109 )
• Jaroslaw Jaropolkowitsch († August 11, 1103 )
• Vyacheslav Jaropolkowitsch († December 13, 1104 )
• Wasilko Jaropolkowitsch

After Jaropolks death Cunegonde 's second marriage was to Count Kuno von Northeim, which according to the estate of his wife, even after Beichlingen named Beichlingen († 1103), his third wife in 1110 Wiprecht of Groitzsch († 1124 ).