Sviatopolk II, king of Kiev

Also known as Святопо́лк (Михаи́л) Изясла́вич. (Sviatopolk Izaislavich Michael).

Events

Date of Birth: 1050.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Raffensperger (website). The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine gives 8 November 1050. 

Date of Death: about 1113.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Raffensperger (website). The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine gives 16 April 1113, near Vyshhorod, north of Kyiv. 

Relationships

Father: Iziaslav I, king of Kiev.

This relationship is given by Kumanin, by Franklin and Shepard, and by Raffensperger (website).

(possible) Mother: Gertruda of Poland.

This relationship is given by Cawley. Raffensperger (2006; 2016; website) notes that the relationship is in doubt, due to an illustration in Gertrude's psalter which refers to Sviatopolk's (half?)-brother Iaropolk as "my only son", and a graffito on the wall of St Sophia in Kiev which seems to refer to Sviatopolk's mother as Olisava.

Concubine: unknown.

This relationship is given by Raffensperger (2006).

(possible) Spouse: unknown.

Raffengsperger (2006) suggests that Sviatopolk may have had a Rusian wife, who was the mother of some of his children, based on the birth dates of Sviatopolk’s children, which predate his marriage to the daughter of Tugorkhan (website). 

Spouse (or possibly "consort"): a daughter of Tugorkhan of Polovtsy. Probably married 1094.

This relationship is given by Raffensperger (2006; 2016; website).

(supposed) Spouse: Barbara Komene.

This relationship is given by Cawley. Raffensperger (2016) dismisses it.

Children (mother unknown):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Raffensperger.)

Iaroslav (died May 1123), married (1) a daughter of László I, king of Hungary; married (2) a daughter of Władysław I Herman, prince of Poland; married (3) a daughter of Mstislav I Vladimirovich “the Great”, prince of Kiev.

Zbislava married Bolesław III Krzywousty, king of Poland.

Predslava married Álmos of Hungary.

Iziaslav.

Children (by the daughter of Tugorkhan of Polovtsy):

Bryacheslav (1104 - 28 August 1127).

Maria married Peter Vlast.

Children (illegitimate):

Mstislav (died 12 July 1099).

References

Cawley, Charles. “SVIATOPOLK II Grand Prince of Kiev” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Franklin, Simon, and Jonathan Shepard. The Emergence of Rus 750-1200. (New York: Longman, 1996).

The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine .

Куманинь, П. “Святопо́лкь (Михаи́ль) Изясла́вичь” in Русский Биографицеский Слобарь Volume XVIII (1904) pp. 242-244.

Raffensperger, Christian. Re-examining Rus’: The Place of Kievan Rus’ in Europe, ca. 800-1146. PhD thesis, Chicago: 2006. [Volume 3: Appendix. Russian Dynastic Marriages 988-1146]

Raffensperger, Christian."Sviatopolk Iziaslavich Michael" on Rusian Genealogy (website). [Consulted 3 February 2018].

Raffensperger, Christian. Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus’. (Harvard U.P., 2016).