King of

Ruthenia Ruthenia or , uk, Рутенія, translit=Rutenia or uk, Русь, translit=Rus, label=none, pl, Ruś, be, Рутэнія, Русь, russian: Рутения, Русь is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin as one of several terms ...

, King of Rus', King of Galicia and Lodomeria, Land of Ruthenia Lord and Heir (

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

: ''Король Русі'', ''король Галичини і Володимирії'', ''князь і володар Всієї Землі Руської'';

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: ''Rex Rusiae'', ''Rex Galiciae et Lodomeriae'', ''Terrae Russiae Dominus et Heres'') was a title of princes of Galicia and Volhynia, granted by the

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. The title was initially issued to the ruling Izyaslavichi branch of

Rurik dynasty The Rurik dynasty ( be, Ру́рыкавічы, Rúrykavichy; russian: Рю́риковичи, Ryúrikovichi, ; uk, Рю́риковичі, Riúrykovychi, ; literally "sons/scions of Rurik"), also known as the Rurikid dynasty or Rurikids, was ...

of Volhynia. Later the title was passed on to as rulers of the united

Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia , conventional_long_name = Principality of Galicia–VolhyniaKingdom of Galicia–Volhynia , common_name = Galicia–Volhynia , status = Vassal state of the Golden Horde (from 1246) , era = Middle Ages , year_start = 1199 , year_end = 1349 , ...

. By the 15th century the title was used as a claim by other royal houses.

List of kings of Ruthenia

Kings of
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* Iziaslav I of Kyiv (as König der Russen) * Yaropolk Izyaslavich

Kings of Ruthenia (
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)

* Danylo I of Halych, king of Rus' (1253–1264). * Lev I of Halych, king of Rus' (1293–1301), moved the capital from Kholm to

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in 1272. * Yuri I of Halych, prince of Halych-Volhynia (1301–1308) * Andrew I of Halych (Volhynia) and Lev II of Halych (Galicia), the last Ruthenian kings * Yuri II Boleslav, married Maria co-ruler of Galicia (1325–1340) Maria was Andrew's and Leo's sister * Dmytro Dedko, Lord of Rus', Prince of Galicia (1340-1349) *

Liubartas Demetrius of Liubar or Liubartas (also ''Lubart'', ''Lubko'', ''Lubardus'', baptized ''Dmitry''; died ) was Prince of Lutsk and Liubar (Volhynia) (1323–1383), Prince of Zhytomyr (1363–1374), Grand Prince of Volhynia (1340–1383), Grand Princ ...

, married Euphemia (Hanna-Buch), co-ruler of Volhynia (1323–1366), prince of eastern Volhynia (1366–1384) Euphemia was Andrew's and Leo's sister * Casimir III the Great, King of Poland (1333–1370), Lord of Rus' (1349-1370) After the death of Boleslav-Yuri II of Halych, Galicia–Volhynia Wars ensued which resulted in Galicia gradually being annexed by the Kingdom of Poland, between 1349 and 1366, during the reign of

Casimir III of Poland Casimir III the Great ( pl, Kazimierz III Wielki; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370. He also later became King of Ruthenia in 1340, and fought to retain the title in the Galicia-Volhynia Wars. He w ...

. At the death of Casimir III the Great all of titulage was passed over to

Louis I of Hungary Louis I, also Louis the Great ( hu, Nagy Lajos; hr, Ludovik Veliki; sk, Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian ( pl, Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 ...

Kings of Galicia–Volhynia (Kingdom of Hungary)

* Andrew II of Hungary, the son of Béla III of Hungary, the first nominal king of Galicia who, as a Hungarian prince, reigned from 1188 to 1190. * Coloman of Galicia-Lodomeria (Kálmán), the first king of Galicia and Lodomeria, lat. ''Rex Galiciae et Lodomeriae'' (1215–1219) and his wife Salomea of Poland, ''Reges Galiciae et Lodomeriae'' * Andrew (András), the younger brother of Coloman, Hungarian prince, king of Galicia and Lodomeria (1219–1221) *

, King of Hungary (1342–1382), King of Poland (1370–1382), incorporated Halych–Volhynia to Hungary ** Władysław II Opolczyk, Silesian prince, Hungarian

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, Lord of Rus’/Ruthenia (1372–1378)

After 1378

In the subsequent years, all

Kings of Poland Poland was ruled at various times either by dukes and princes (10th to 14th centuries) or by kings (11th to 18th centuries). During the latter period, a tradition of free election of monarchs made it a uniquely electable position in Europe (16t ...

styled themselves ''Lord of Rus’ (or Ruthenia)''. Simultaneously, the tsars of Russia adopted from 1547 onwards the title ''Tsar of All-Rus’ ''. The Hungarian kings continued to claim the title of ''King in Halych and Volhynia'', later taken over together with the Hungarian Crown by the

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After
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After the

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, the tsars of Russia styled themselves '' Emperor of all the Russias'', while the

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(later emperors of Austria and of

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) used the title of '' King of Galicia and Lodomeria'' drawn from the historical claims of Hungarian Kings to Halych–Volhynia to justify the annexations of territories belonging to Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in spite of the fact that the newly established rump puppet Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria was included in the

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instead of Hungarian part of the empire, the true historical claimant of the region. Part of Galicia was included in the puppet Kingdom of Poland (1916-1918) re-established by the Central Powers and ruled by the Regency Council. All these monarchies were abolished upon the end of

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

. However, the Kingdom of Hungary was formally re-established in 1920 along with its royal titles and styles, and its territory even included at a time the Carpathian Ruthenia, following the breakup of the

Second Czechoslovak Republic The Second Czechoslovak Republic ( cs, Druhá československá republika, sk, Druhá česko-slovenská republika) existed for 169 days, between 30 September 1938 and 15 March 1939. It was composed of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and ...

. Nevertheless, its throne remained vacant until the ultimate abolition of Hungarian monarchy in 1946.

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