Vladimir Vasilkovich () was a son of

Vasilko Romanovich Vasylko Romanovych (1199 or 1203–1269 or 1271) was Prince of Belz (1207–1269), Prince of Berestia (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 ...

. He succeeded his father as the

prince of Volhynia This is a list of princes of Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia (Principality of Halych, Halych or Halychyna) and its sister principality Principality of Volhynia, Volhynia (Volyn' or Volodymyr, Volyn Oblast, Volodymyr; Latin: ''Lodomeria''). They ...

when the latter died in 1269, and was famous for numerous constructions and reconstructions of town fortifications in Volhynia. In the 1270s (1276, according to most sources) he founded a castle that included a

keep A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word ''keep'', but usually consider it to refer to large towers in castles that were fortified residen ...

now famous as the

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, and around which sprang up the town of Kamyanets; he also authored the construction of a similar tower in the re-built castle of

Berestye Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk and Brest-on-the-Bug, is a city in south-western Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish town of Terespol, where the Bug and Mukhavets rivers meet, making it a border town. It serves as the administ ...

. He died in 1289 in Luboml. Summing up his life, the "old chronicle" presented him as a booklover and philosopher, whose like in the world had never before been seen, and would never be seen again. Vasilkovich was renowned for his favorable treatment of the region's Jewish population, which had erewhile been severely maligned and ill-treated. According to an annalist who describes the funeral of the grand duke Vladimir Vasilkovich in the city of Vladimir (Volhynia), "the Jews wept at his funeral as at the fall of Jerusalem, or when being led into the Babylonian captivity."Isidore Singer & Cyrus Adler, eds., ''The Jewish Encyclopedia: Leon-Moravia'' (New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1904), 119.

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