The Principality of Peremyshl was a medieval petty principality centred on
Peremyshl (now
Przemyśl
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,
Poland
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) in the Cherven lands ("
Red Ruthenia").
First mentioning
The ''
Primary Chronicle'', writing for the year 981, gives the first mention of Peremyshl relating the wars of
Saint Vladimir:
It is possible that the Lyakhs here are the Poles. Cross argued that ''Lyakh'' was the early term for a Polish person. Franklin and Shepard argued that these people are the same as the
Ledzanians, mentioned in the 10th century ''
De Administrando Imperio'' as tributaries of the Rus. Peremyshl may have been one of the Cherven towns captured by the Polish prince
Boleslaw I in 1018, towns recaptured by Rus in 1031.
Dynasties
Peremyshl was ruled initially by the descendants of
Vladimir Yaroslavich — who had helped recapture the towns of Cherven Rus in 1031 — and his only son
Rostislav Vladimirovich; they are hence known as the ''Rostislavichi''. The earliest known
Prince of Peremyshl is Ryurik Rostislavich, who was occupying the city when the murderers of
Yaropolk Izyaslavich fled to him in 1087.
Vsevolod I Yaroslavich, Grand Prince, is alleged to have apportioned Volhynian territories, distributing Vladimir-in-Volhynia (modern
Volodymyr-Volynskyi) to Davyd Igorevich,
Terebovl to Vasilko Rostislavich and Peremyshl to
Volodar Rostislavich, grants confirmed at the
Council of Liubech The Council of Liubech (sometimes referred to as the Liubech Conference) (, ) was one of the best documented princely meetings in Kievan Rus' that took place in Liubech (today in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine) on October 19, 1097. The council ended the ...
of 1097. The city, defended by Prince Volodar, was besieged in 1097 by
Yaroslav Svyatopolkovich, allied to King
Coloman of Hungary. However
Davyd Svyatoslavich,
Prince of Chernigov
The Prince of Chernigov () was the ''kniaz'', the ruler or sub-ruler, of the Rus' people, Rus' Principality of Chernigov, a lordship which lasted four centuries straddling what are now parts of Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian Federation.
List of ...
, and his
Polovtsy ally
Bonyak defeated the Hungarian.
Peremyshl, although originally subordinate to the Principality of
Vladimir-in-Volhynia, remained a semi-independent principality into the middle of the 13th century and beyond. Although the details are not always available, it formed part of the orbit of the emerging
Principality of Halych
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. During the conflict between
Rostislav Mikhailovich and
Daniil Romanovich (formerly its prince), it was one of the former's strongholds; its bishop supported Rostislav, and when Rostislav occupied
Halych
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, he appointed
Konstantin of Ryazan to oversee Peremyshl. Peremyshl is known to have been the main fort of
Boleslaw-Yuri,
King of Rus,
[Rowell, ''Lithuania Ascending'', p. 268.] going into Polish hands after his death.
["Lords of Peremyshl and Galich" (XPOHOC)]
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List of princes
See also
* Red Ruthenia
Notes
References
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