Vasylko Romanovych

Vasylko Romanovych (1203–1269), Prince of Belz (1207–1269), Prince of Brest (1231–1269), and Prince of Volhynia (1231–1269).

He was the son of Roman the Great and Anna-Euphrosyne, and the younger brother of Daniel of Galicia (Danylo). After Roman's death in 1205, the Galician boyars drove him, his mother and his brother from the region.

Biography

Young years He was born around 1203 in Halych. The uprising of the boyars against the princely power, which broke out immediately after the death of Roman Mstyslavych in June 1205 near Zavyhost, which decisively suppressed the feudal boyar opposition, caused the disintegration of the Galicia-Volyn principality. The invasion of the Kyiv prince Rurik Rostislavych, the call of the boyars to the princes of Chernihiv Ihorevichs - Volodymyr, Roman and Sviatoslav, forced Princess Anna and her sons to flee to Volodymyr, and then to Krakow, where Vasylko remained with his mother under the protection of the Malopolska prince Leszko I the White, and Danylo was sent to Hungary to the court of King Andrew II. The struggle for the father's inheritance Ed. In 1207, Vasylko was elected prince in Brest; in the same year, with the support of Leshko, he received the Belz principality from Alexander Vsevolodovich, ceding the cities of Ugrovesk, Vereshchyn, Stolpye and Komov to the latter, but soon Vasylko lost Belz due to the hostile attitude of the local boyars towards him. Together with his brother, he was a prince in Volhynia - in Tikhoml and Peremyl, from where the Romanovychs began to gather their country. Since 1215, thanks to the efforts of Leshko, Danylo and Vasylko began to rule together in Volodymyr. In 1227, Danylo and Vasylko made a campaign to Lutsk against Prince Yaroslav Ingvarovich, who captured the city against the will of the previous prince, Mstislav the Silent. The campaign ended successfully and Yaroslav Ingvarovich was captured by the princes. After the campaign, Vasylko Romanovych expanded his possessions, receiving Lutsk and Peresopnytsia principality from his brother. On March 26, 1228, the Romanovichs conducted a successful campaign on Chortoryiysk, in which the Princes of Pins hostile to Danylo ruled. The campaign ended with the capture of the city and the capture of the Pinsk princes. In 1228, during the siege of Kamianets by the army of the Kyiv-Pyn coalition, Danylo and Vasylko, together with their ally Prince Oleksandr Belzsky, made a rapid massive campaign on Kyiv, which forced the Kyiv and Chernihiv princes to lift the siege and go to reconciliation with the Romanovichs. In 1229, Danylo and Vasylko helped Konrad I of Mazovia in the internecine war in Wielkopolska, took part in the campaign against Poland, the siege of Kalisz. In the 1230s, the Romanovichs liquidated the last Belz principality in Volyn and thus united the entire Volyn in their hands. In 1231, in the Battle of Shumsk, it was the actions of Vasylko Romanovich and the infantry regiment he led that secured the united army of Danylo and Vasylko over the Hungarian army of Prince Endre[2]. For the next eight years (1231-1238), they waged a war for their second "fatrand", Galicia, against the Hungarians and Chernihiv prince Mykhailo Vsevoldovych. After the return of Halych, in 1238, Danylo transferred the Volodymyr's allotment to Vasylka, and left the Kholm, Belg and Lutsk lands for himself. After the Mongol invasion Ed. At the head of the Volyn regiment, he took part in the Battle of Yaroslavl in 1245, in which the detachments of the Hungarian and Polish kings were defeated. In 1248, according to the chronicle, Vasylko Romanovych repelled the robber raid of the Yatvyags, catching up with and defeating them near Drohochyn. 40 of the "Princes" were destroyed. Temnik Burundai attacked Volyn in 1259–1260, forcing the Volyn prince Vasylko Romanovych to take part in campaigns against Lithuania (1258), Poland (1259)[3]. In 1261, in Shumsk, Prince Vasylko Romanovych held negotiations with the Temnik Burundai. Burundi demanded the destruction of several gardens, but recognized the independent, albeit union status of the Galician-Volyn lands. After Danylo's death (1264), Vasylko was formally called a grand prince, but in fact he reigned only in Volodymyr and owned only a part of the Volyn land along with Danylo's sons Lev and Mstislav. Vasylko focused on the affairs of his small principality, avoided wars with neighbors, peacefully resolving conflicts with Poland, Lithuania and the Yatvingians

Family

Parents

• Roman the Great
• Anna-Euphrosyne

Siblings

• Daniel of Galicia (1201–1264)

Children

• Volodymyr Vasylkovych
• Olha

Sources

• Magocsi, Paul Robert (2010). A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 894. ISBN 9781442610217. Retrieved 22 January 2023.