Yaroslav Osmomysl
Yaroslav Osmomysl | |
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Prince of Halych | |
Reign | 1153 - 1 October 1187 |
Predecessor | Volodymyrko Volodarovych |
Successor | Oleg Yaroslavych |
Born | c. 1135 |
Died | 1 October 1187 |
Spouse | Olga Yurievna |
Issue | Volodymyr Yaroslavych Euphrosyne Yaroslavna |
Dynasty | Rostislavichi |
Father | Volodymyrko Volodarovych |
Mother | Sophia of Hungary |
Yaroslav Osmomysl (
Biography
Son of
In 1164/65,
The latter part of his reign was beset by family troubles. He fell in love with one Halychian woman, named Anastasia (also called Nastasia), took her as a
The Tale of Igor's Campaign
Yaroslav's daughter Eufrosinia and her husband Igor Svyatoslavich are central figures of The Tale of Igor's Campaign. Yaroslav is mentioned in the text as a powerful and respected potentate:
- Eight-minded Yaroslav of Halych! You sit high on your gold-forged throne; you have braced the Hungarian mountains with your iron troops; you have barred the [Hungarian] king's path; you have closed the Danube's gates, hurling weighty missiles over the clouds, spreading your courts to the Danube. Your thunders range over lands; you open Kiev's gates; from the paternal golden throne you shoot at sultans beyond the lands.[2]
Reburial
Osmomysl's remains found their final resting place only recently after long period of disturbance. Originally, he was buried in the Assumption Cathedral in ancient
Trying to secure his archaeological artifacts from ancient Halych and drawings of the cathedral in Krylos before the Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine, Jaroslaw Pasternak hid them in an undisclosed location shortly after he emigrated to Germany,[dubious ] where he died without disclosing the secret place. The purported remains were found for the second time in 1992, hidden in the crypt of St. George Cathedral in Lviv, by archeologist Yuriy Lukomskyy. After anthropological study, the remains were reburied at the Lviv Cathedral. As a result of study a reconstruction of Yaroslav Osmomysl's face was made.
Issue
With his wife, Olga Yurievna of Suzdal (d. 14 July 1189), daughter of Prince
- Vladimir(ko) (b. 1151 – d. 1199), Prince of Halicz (1188 and 1190–99), married to Boleslava (d. bef.1189), daughter of Great Prince Sviatoslav of Chernigov.
- Euphrosyne, famous for her song in "The Tale of Igor's Campaign"; married in 1184 to Prince Igor Svyatoslavich of Chernigov.
- Vyacheslava (d. aft. 1200), married in 1184 to Prince Odon of Poznan.
- A daughter, married in 1167 with King Stephen III of Hungary, but he repudiated her one-year later (1168).[citation needed]
With his concubine Anastasia/Nastasia, he had one son:
- Oleg "Nastasyich" (b. aft.1161 – d. poisoned at Halicz, 1188), Prince of Halicz (1187, 1189).
See also
- List of rulers of Halych and Volhynia
References
- ^ D. Obolensky, The Byzantine Commonwealth, 299–302.
- ^ Trans. Nabokov, Vladimir. The Song of Igor's Campaign: An Epic of the 12th Century. The original untranslated text is “Галичкы Осмомыслѣ Ярославе! Высоко сѣдиши на своемъ златокованнемъ столѣ, подперъ горы Угорскыи своими желѣзными полкы, заступивъ Королеви путь, затворивъ Дунаю ворота, меча бремены чрезъ облакы, суды рядя до Дуная. Грозы твоя по землямъ текутъ, отворяеши Киеву врата, стрѣляеши съ отня злата стола Салътани за землями.”
- (in Ukrainian) Pasternak, Ya. Ancient Halych. Krakov-Lviv, 1944
- (in Russian) Maiorov A.V. Galitsko-Volynskaya Rus: Ocherki sotsialno-politicheskikh otnoshenii v domongolskii period. Knyaz, boyare i gorodskaya obschina. St Petersburg, 2001 (in Russian).
External links
- Arkadii Zhukovsky, Yaroslav Osmomysl at Encyclopedia of Ukraine, 2010