Roman II Igorevych (ukr. ''Роман Ігорович'', 1177/1179 – September 1211)
was an
Olgovichi
The Olgovichi or Olhovychi were one of the four dominant princely clans of Kievan Rus' in the 12th and 13th century. First mentioned in the Hypatian Codex, Hypatian continuation of the ''Primary Chronicle'' (PVL) under the year 1116 and literally m ...
prince. He was prince of
Zvenyhorod
Zvenyhorod () is a village in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, in the western part of Ukraine. It belongs to Davydiv rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Zvenyhorod was the capital of the former Principality of Zvenyhorod (11th and 12th centur ...
(1206–1208, 1210–1211), and
of Halych (1208, 1208–1209).
He was son of
Igor Svyatoslavich
Igor Svyatoslavich (3 April 1151 – ), nicknamed the Brave, was Prince of Novgorod-Seversk (1180–1198) and Prince of Chernigov (1198–1201/1202).
Life
The son of Sviatoslav Olgovich, prince of Chernigov, in 1169 Igor took part in the war agai ...
and
Euphrosyne Yaroslavna, the second daughter of prince
Yaroslav Volodimerovich of Halych by his first wife Olga Yuryevna of Kiev. His brothers were
Vladimir III Igorevich,
Svyatoslav III Igorevich.
Ancestors
Footnotes
Sources
*Benda, Kálmán ''(General Editor)'': Magyarország történeti kronológiája - A kezdetektől 1526-ig ''/A Historical Chronology of Hungary - From the Beginnings to 1526/''; Akadémiai Kiadó, 1981, Budapest; (the part of the book which describes the events of the period from 1197 to 1309 was written by László Solymosi).
*Dimnik, Martin: ''The Dynasty of Chernigov - 1146-1246''; Cambridge University Press, 2003, Cambridge; .
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1170s births
1211 deaths
Olgovichi family
Princes of Galicia
Eastern Orthodox monarchs