Not to be confused with Sviatoslav Iaroslavich, Prince of Murom 1143–1145.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yaroslavich.
Sviatoslav II
Sviatoslav (far right) with his family, 1073
Prince of Volhynia
Reign
c. 1040–1054
Prince of Chernigov
Reign
1054–1076
Grand Prince of Kiev
Reign
1073–1076
Predecessor
Iziaslav I
Successor
Vsevolod I
Born
1027
Died
27 December 1076 (aged 48–49)[1] Kiev
Burial
Transfiguration Cathedral, Chernigov
Wives
Killikiya or Kelikia (Cecilia)
Oda of Stade
Issue
Vysheslava
Gleb
Oleg
Davyd
Roman
Yaroslav (Murom)
House
Vladimir the Great Sviatoslavichi[2]
Father
Yaroslav the Wise
Mother
Ingegerd of Sweden
Sviatoslav II Iaroslavich or Sviatoslav II Yaroslavich (Old East Slavic: Ст҃ославь Ӕрославичь;[a] 1027 – 27 December 1076)[1] was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1073 until his death in 1076.[3] He was a younger son of Yaroslav the Wise, the grand prince of Kiev. He is the progenitor of the Sviatoslavichi branch of Rurikids.[2]
He ruled the Principality of Vladimir in Volhynia in his father's lifetime (from around 1040 to 1054). Yaroslav the Wise, who divided the Kievan Rus' among his five sons in his testament, willed the Principality of Chernigov to Sviatoslav. Sviatoslav joined his brothers, Iziaslav of Kiev and Vsevolod of Pereyaslav, in forming a princely "triumvirate" that oversaw the affairs of Kievan Rus' until 1072. The three brothers together fought against their enemies, including the nomadic Oghuz Turks, and their distant relative, Prince Vseslav of Polotsk. The Cumans defeated their united force in the autumn of 1068, but Sviatoslav routed a Cuman band plundering his principality.
The "triumvirate" broke up, when Sviatoslav, supported by his younger brother Vsevolod, dethroned and replaced their older brother Iziaslav in 1073. He commissioned the compilation of at least two miscellanies of theological works. Otherwise, his short reign was uneventful.
^Morby, John E. (2002). Dynasties of the world: a chronological and genealogical handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 167. ISBN 9780198604730.
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