David Rostislavich ( Cyrillic: Давыд Ростиславич) (1140 - 23 April 1197),

Prince A prince is a Monarch, male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary title, hereditary, in s ...

Smolensk Smolensk ( rus, Смоленск, p=smɐˈlʲensk, a=smolensk_ru.ogg) is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest ...

(1180–1198) was fourth son of Rostislav Mstislavich, Velikiy Kniaz (

Grand Prince Grand prince or great prince (feminine: grand princess or great princess) ( la, magnus princeps; Greek: ''megas archon''; russian: великий князь, velikiy knyaz) is a title of nobility ranked in honour below emperor, equal of king or ...

) of

Kiev Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Ky ...

. David was born in 1140, Smolensk, in a family of Rostislav Mstislavich,

Prince of Smolensk The Prince of Smolensk was the '' kniaz'', the ruler or sub-ruler, of the Rus' Principality of Smolensk, a lordship based on the city of Smolensk. It passed between different groups of descendants of Grand Prince Iaroslav I of Kiev until 1125, w ...

. During 1167, David received in his rule

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. In 1171, David was trying to put

Vladimir III Mstislavich Vladimir III Mstislavich (russian: Владимир III Мстиславич, uk, Володимир III Мстиславич; 1132–1171) was a prince of Dorogobuzh (1150–1154, 1170–1171), Volodymyr and Volyn (1154–1157), Slutsk (1162), ...

to a tron, and in a next year his brother

Rurik Rostislavich Rurik Rostislavich ( Russian and Ukrainian: Рюрик Ростиславич) (died 1215), Prince of Novgorod (1170–1171), Belgorod Kievsky (currently Bilohorodka; 1173–1194), Grand Prince of Kiev (Kyiv, 1173, 1180–1181, 1194–1201, 1203� ...

. In 1175, he together with Prince Oleg Svyatoslavich, was fighting in Chernigov and in next year lost battle with

Cumans The Cumans (or Kumans), also known as Polovtsians or Polovtsy (plural only, from the Russian exonym ), were a Turkic nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman–Kipchak confederation. After the Mongol invasion (1237), many so ...

near city of Rostovec. This battle mentioned in

The Tale of Igor's Campaign ''The Tale of Igor's Campaign'' ( orv, Слово о пълкѹ Игоревѣ, translit=Slovo o pŭlku Igorevě) is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language. The title is occasionally translated as ''The Tale of the Campaig ...

Sources

The Chronicle of Novgorod
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