Sviatoslav Olgovich

Sviatoslav Olgovich (

Oleg Sviatoslavich, the prince of Chernigov, and an unnamed daughter of Aepa, a Cuman khan.^[1]

After the death of their older brother,

Yuri Dolgoruki, and his father-in-law, Aepa Khan, Sviatoslav began a war against his cousins, but was forced to flee to Karachev

. There on January 16, 1147, Sviatoslav defeated the Davidovichi brothers.

Family

In 1108, Sviatoslav married a Cuman princess, daughter of Aepa Khan, who gave him a daughter and a son, Oleg. In 1136 Svyatoslav married a second time, to a woman of Novgorod, who bore his famous son,

Igor Sviatoslavich

.

References

ISBN 978-0-87569-064-3
.

Sources

Dimnik, Martin. The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146-1246, 2000

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