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     Margaret "the Elder" (?) de Hongrie was born between 1220 and 1221.¹ She married Guillaume de Saint-Omer Lord of Thebes circa 1240.¹

Margaret "the Elder" (?) de Hongrie died on 20 April 1242.¹
      ; Margaret "the Elder", *1220/21, +20.4.1242; m.ca 1240 Guillaume de St.Omer, Lord of Thebes.¹

     Guillaume de Saint-Omer Lord of Thebes married Margaret "the Elder" (?) de Hongrie, daughter of Bela IV (?) King of Hungary and Croatia and Marie Laskarina of Nicaea, Queen of Hungary & Croatia, circa 1240.¹

      ; Could this be:
1. Nicolas Ier de Saint-Omer (son of Guillaume IV), †1217/1219, X Marguerite de Hongrie, fille de Béla III de Hongrie, or
2. Les Saint-Omer de Thèbes
Une branche de la famille installée en Grèce après la quatrième croisade joua un rôle important dans l'histoire du duché d'Athènes et de la principauté d'Achaïe.
** Nicolas Ier de Saint-Omer, † ca 12351, X Marguerite de Hongrie, fille de Béla III de Hongrie.²

     Marina Vladimirovna (?) died on 7 February 1238; Killed in battle.¹
      ; Per Med Lands:
     "MARINA Vladimirovna (-killed in battle 7 Feb 1238).
     "m (14 Apr 1230) VSEVOLOD Iurievich Prince Novgorod, son of IURII Vsevolodich Prince of Vladimir & his wife Agafia Vsevolodovna of Kiev (23 Oct 1212-killed in battle Sit River 4 Mar 1238)."¹

     Marija Mstislawna (?) of Kiev married Vsevolod II Olegovich (?) Grand Duke of Kiev, son of Oleg Michael "Gorislavich" (?) Prince of Novgorod-Sevjersk and Theophano Musalonissa, between 1116 and 1125.^1,3

Marija Mstislawna (?) of Kiev died in 1179.³
      ; Leo van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag Marburg., Detlev Schwennicke, Editor, Reference: II 131.²

; a dau.of Great Pr Mstislav of Kiev.

     Maria Vasilkovna (?) of Polotzk married Svyatoslav III Vsevolodich (?) Prince of Seversk, Chernigov and Volynia, Grand Prince of Kiev, son of Vsevolod II Olegovich (?) Grand Duke of Kiev and Marija Mstislawna (?) of Kiev, in 1143
;
His 1st wife.^1,2,3
      ; Per Med Lands:
     "SVIATOSLAV Vsevolodich, son of VSEVOLOD II Olegovich Grand Prince of Kiev & his wife Maria Mstislavna of Kiev (-24 Jul 1194). His father installed him as Prince of Volynia [1144], triggering war with Vladimirko Vsevolodich Prince of Galich who objected to the appointment[292]. Prince of Severskiy -1176. Prince of Chernigov 1164-1176. He challenged the succession of Iaroslav Iziaslavich as Grand Prince of Kiev in 1174. After allying himself with the Rostislavichi branch, Princes of Smolensk, he was able to succeed 1176 as SVIATOSLAV III Grand Prince of Kiev, introducing a period of stability in the government of Kiev which continued until his death in 1194[293]. His army inflicted a serious defeat on the Kuman in 1184, capturing several of their khans[294].
     "m firstly (1143) MARIA Vasilkovna of Polotsk, daughter of VASILKO Sviatoslavich Prince of Polotsk & his wife ---.
     "m secondly --- (-after 1190). The name of Sviatoslav´s second wife is not known.
     "Grand Prince Sviatoslav III & his [first/second] wife had nine children."
Med Lands cites:

; Per Med Lands: "MARIA Vasilkovna . m (1143) as his first wife, SVIATOSLAV Vsevolodich of Kiev, son of VSEVOLOD II Olegovich Grand Prince of Kiev & his wife Maria Mstislavna of Kiev (-24 Jul 1194). He was installed as Prince of Volynia [1144], Prince of Chernigov 1164-1176. He succeeded in 1176 as SVIATOSLAV III Grand Prince of Kiev."²

     Mikhail Vsevolodich "the Saint" (?) Gr Pr of Kiev, Prince of Pereslavl, Novgorod, Chernigov, and Galitzk was born in 1179.¹ He married Marija Romanowna (?) of Halicz, daughter of Roman Mstislavich "the Great" (?) Grand Duke of Kiev, Novgorod, Halicz and Predslawa Rjurikowna (?) of Owrutsch, in 1211.^1,2,8

Mikhail Vsevolodich "the Saint" (?) Gr Pr of Kiev, Prince of Pereslavl, Novgorod, Chernigov, and Galitzk died on 20 September 1246 at Hord.¹
Mikhail Vsevolodich "the Saint" (?) Gr Pr of Kiev, Prince of Pereslavl, Novgorod, Chernigov, and Galitzk was buried after 20 September 1246 at Moscow, Russia.¹
      ; This is the same person as ”Michael of Chernigov” at Wikipedia.⁹

; Per Genealogics:
     "Michail was born about 1185, the son of Vsevolod III, grand duke of Kiev, duke of Perejaslawl, and Anastasia of Poland, daughter of Kazimierz II 'the Just', duke of Sandomir, Krakau, Kujawien and Masovia. The patrimonial domain of his father was located in the northwestern part of the Vyatichi lands where he undoubtedly spent his childhood.
     "When Michail was a child he suffered from a paralysing illness. His grandfather Svjatoslav III, grand duke of Kiev, gave much wealth to churches in unsuccessful attempts to obtain a cure. Finally he heard of the miracle-worker Nikita living in the Monastery of St. Nicetas at Perejaslawl-Zalessky in Sizdalia. The prince, accompanied by boyars, rode to the town and arrived at the monk's pillar. The stylite (pillar-saint) gave his staff to one of his boyars to take to the prince; Michail took hold of it, was cured, and walked to the miracle-worker's pillar for his blessing. Following his cure he gave a generous benefaction to the monastery and ordered a stone cross to be erected, according to one source on 16 May 1186, on the spot where he was cured. Although the event is reported only in late sources and embellished with pious details, the account has a ring of truth.
     "In the summer of 1206 his father seized Kiev, sent his mayors to all the Kievan towns, and forced Rjurik II Wassilij, grand duke of Kiev, to withdraw to Vruchiy (today Ovruch in Ukraine). Vsevolod also evicted Jaroslav II Vsevolodovitch (son of Wsewolod III, grand duke of Vladimir) from Perejaslawl, and gave the town to Michail. However Rjurik was determined to regain control of Kiev and expelled Vsevolod with relative ease. Rjurik also ordered Michail, who had only a small retinue at his disposal, to vacate Perejaslawl, and he withdrew to his father in Chernigov. Some time in the summer of 1207 his father again occupied Kiev, but in October Rjurik rode to Kiev, drove out Vsevolod for the second time and occupied the town; Michail accompanied his father from Kiev.
     "About 1211 Michail married Marija Romanowna of Halicz, daughter of Roman, grand duke of Kiev, Novgorod and Halicz, and Predslawa Rjurikowna of Owrutsch. They had only two children whose identity and parentage are established with certainty, Rosztiszlo and Marija, and both would have progeny.
     "In June 1212 Mstislaw III Boris Romanowitsch, grand duke of Smolensk, Polock and Kiev, Mstislaw Mstislawitsch, duke of Novgorod and Halicz, and Ingvar Jaroslavitch, prince of Lutsk, launched a major offensive against Michail's father Vsevolod, who confronted the attackers at Vyshgorod. However Mstislaw III occupied Kiev. Vsevolod fled from the city, probably accompanied by Michail, for the third time and sought safety in Chernigov, where he died sometime in August 1212. Michail probably inherited Bryn, Serensk and Mosalsk from his father.
     "When his uncle Gleb Svyatoslavich died between 1215 and 1220, and his uncle Mstislav II Svyatoslavich moved to Chernigov, Michail, because of his status as the second in seniority, probably occupied Novgorod-Seversk.
     "In the spring of 1223 a strong Mongol cavalry corps under the command of Jebe and Subutai, which had been sent by Genghis Khan to reconnoitre the 'western lands', entered the land of the Cumans. Unable to withstand the onslaught, the Cumans fled to Rus', warning the princes that if they refused to send aid the same fate would befall them. At the war council of the Rus' princes it was decided not to wait for the coming of the Tatars but to attack them deep in the Cuman steppes. Michail also attended the meeting. The united forces of the princes went down the River Dnieper, and the first skirmish took place on the banks of the river. In this vanguard battle Mstislaw Mstislawitsch, duke of Novgorod and Halicz, succeeded in defeating a detachment of Mongol troops. Crossing the Dnieper, their armies marched through the steppes for eight days before they met the main Mongol force on the banks of the Kalka River. There was no unity of command in the Russian army. The results were disastrous: after the battle, a number of princes (including Michail's uncle Mstislav II Svyatoslavich of Chernigov) perished during the flight.
     "Michail was probably among the first survivors who returned to Chernigov. The chronicles do not tell us that Michail replaced Mstislav II Svyatoslavich as prince of Chernigov, but later evidence reveals that after his uncle's demise he sat on the throne of his father and grandfather in the Holy Saviour Cathedral. The ceremony probably took place around 16 June 1223. Because princes of his generation predeceased him and had no heirs, Michail, in his capacity as senior prince, assumed control over a number of their domains. This accumulation of territories made him the largest landowner in the land.
     "At that time, the Novgorodians acknowledged Yuri II Vsevolodovich, grand prince of Vladimir, as their overlord, but they frequently challenged his appointment of princes. In 1224 his son Vsevolod Yuryevich had to flee from Novgorod. It appears that Michail was already in Vladimir when Yuri Vsevolodovich learnt of his son's flight. Yuri threatened to attack the Novgorodians; in response, they confirmed their loyalty to him but made a pact to die in the defence of the Cathedral of St. Sofia. Yuri therefore proposed that they accept Michail as prince. The Novgorodians agreed, and in March 1225 Michail occupied Novgorod. Nevertheless Yuri demanded the sum of 7,000 novuyu as a fine from the citizens and confiscated their goods. Michail went to Novgorod, where he acted as Yuri Vsevolodovich's appointee and not as an autonomous ruler, with the intention of returning to Chernigov. One of his most important tasks was to recover the Novgorodians' wares that Yuri had confiscated at Torzhok and in his own domain. Before departing from Novgorod, Michail invited the townsmen to send merchants to Chernigov and declared that their lands and his would be as one. After he departed from Novgorod, its legislature sent a request for a prince to Yuri Vsevolodovich's brother Jaroslav II Vsevolodovitch, grand duke of Perejaslavl, Rjasan, Kiev and Vladimir.
     "About a year after Michail returned to Chernigov, it appears he became involved in a dynastic dispute: Oleg Svyatoslavich of Kursk prepared to wage war on him. The available evidence suggests that the bone of contention was Novgorod-Siverskyi. It is noteworthy that the chroniclers accuse neither Michail nor Oleg of wrongdoing, which suggests that each had a just cause. During the winter of 1227, Yuri Vsevolodovich, prince of Rostov, and Vsevolod Konstantinovich, prince of Perejaslawl, came to help Michail against Oleg Svyatoslavich; in addition to them, Metropolitan Kirill I of Kiev also helped to reconcile Michail with Oleg, who evidently became the prince of Novgorod Severskyi.
     "In 1228 Vladimir III Rurikovich, grand prince of Kiev, summoned Michail and attacked his brother-in-law Daniil Romanowitsch, king of Halicz, Lodomerien and Wladimir-Wolhynk, who had seized the towns of Lutsk and Chertoryysk, in Kamenetz; its ability to withstand the siege is all the more impressive because Vladimir III Rurikovich allegedly attacked with all his allies.
     "In December 1228 the common people of Novgorod rose up in arms against tysyatskiy (senior administrator) Vyacheslav and appointed Boris Negochevich in his place, and invited Jaroslav II Vsevolodovitch to return, but according to a new agreement. They insisted that he abide by all their terms and by all the laws of Jaroslav I Vladimirovitch, grand duke of Kiev; he also had to cancel the zabozhnitse (a special tax levied on churches which also served as warehouses), and to stop appointing his judges in the Novgorodian lands. On 20 February 1229, therefore, Jaroslav II Vsevolodovitch's sons (Fedor Yaroslavich and Alexander Nevski) fled to their father. The Novgorodians sent word to Michail, and he set out for Novgorod upon receiving the invitation; he arrived in Novgorod around the beginning of May.
     "Michail and the townsmen introduced measures to weaken Jaroslav Vsevolodovitch's power; the legislature appointed Vnezd Vodovik as the new senior administrator and also removed Jaroslav's other administrators. After levying heavy fines on Jaroslav's supporters, the Novgorodians used the money for the benefit of the entire community by paying for the construction of a new bridge.
     "Michail's pro-Novgorod legislation included granting the town officials some of the prince's power: he permitted the boyars to appoint their own judges. He also cancelled the zabozhnitse, placed a moratorium on the payment of tribute for five years on those peasants who had fled to other lands and agreed to return to their Novgorodian homes, and lessened the tax burden of the common people. After spending some three months in Novgorod, Michail returned home. When he left Novgorod he designated his child son Rosztiszlo to remain his symbolic lieutenant, and on returning to Chernigov he took prominent Novgorodians with him.
     "In May of 1230 Michail returned to Novgorod, where he installed his son on the throne. Before departing, he promised the Novgorodians to return with troops by 14 September. On 8 December the Novgorodians forced Rosztiszlo to flee to his father on the feeble pretext that Michail had promised troops by 14 September, but it was already December and he had not come. In this way Jaroslav Vsevolodovitch's supporters evicted the Olgovichi (the dynasty of Chernigov) from Novgorod, as it turned out, for the last time. They summoned Jaroslav Vsevolodovitch and he came on 30 December. Meanwhile a core of dissenters found refuge with Michail; to secure his hegemony over Novgorod, therefore Jaroslav Vsevolodovitch had to stop Michail from giving them support.
     "In the summer or autumn of 1231 Michail waged war against Vladimir III Rurikovich, grand prince of Kiev, who sent an appeal for help to Daniil Romanowitsch (Michail's brother-in-law). We are told that Daniil came and pacified the two princes.
     "In the autumn of 1231 Jaroslav Vsevolodovitch attacked the northwest parts of Michail's lands. He set fire to Serensk (which was most likely the administrative centre of Michail's patrimony), but when he besieged Mosalsk, he failed to take it. Jaroslav, however, refused to conclude peace, which signalled to Michail that he was prepared to pursue his objective until Michail expelled the Novgorodian fugitives from his lands. Towards the end of 1231 Novgorod's new senior administrator Vnezd Vodovik died in Chernigov; Michail had been bound to support Vodovik owing to their mutual oaths, and Vodovik's death released him from that obligation. Thereupon the other Novgorodian dissenters left Chernigov before Easter of 1232.
     "In 1232 troops sent by Vladimir III Rurikovich of Kiev pursued and captured the princes of Bolokhov who had invaded Daniil Romanowitsch's lands and handed them over to Daniil. Michail and Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich, prince of Putyvl, threatened to attack Daniiel if he refused to release them. Although Vladimir Rurikovich renewed his pact with Daniil, Michail and Iziaslav Vladimirovich continued waging war against them. In January 1235 Vladimir Rurikovich and Daniil Romanowitsch attacked Chernigov, plundered the environs and set fire to the outer town, hoping to make Michail submit. However Michail promised Daniil many gifts if he would desert Vladimir III. Daniil agreed and attempted to persuade Vladimir to lift the siege; but Michail sallied out of Chernigov at night, caught Daniil's troops by surprise, and killed many of them. His brother-in-law barely escaped and was forced to withdraw to the Kievan land.
     "Michail waited until Iziaslav Vladimirovich brought the Cumans and then rode in pursuit. The two sides clashed near Torchesk, where Vladimir Rurikovich and Daniil Romanowitsch were defeated, and the former was also taken captive with many of his boyars. Meanwhile Michail's allies took Kiev where he evidently made the German merchants, who had come to Kiev via Novgorod, pay redemption fees for their goods, and then appointed his puppet Iziaslav Mstislavich (one of the Rostislavichi) to the throne.
     "At an undisclosed date after Daniil Romanowitsch returned to Halicz from his defeat at Torchesk, its boyars rebelled and forced him to flee to Hungary. Towards the end of September 1235 Michail occupied Halicz, while his comrade-in-arms Iziaslav Vladimirovich seized Kamenets. In the spring of 1236 Michail attacked Daniil Romanowitsch in Volhynia. In addition to his own retinue, he was probably accompanied by Galician boyars, the princes of Bolokhov, and troops from the Kievan land. He also sent Iziaslav Vladimorovich to bring the Cumans; and finally he summoned Konrad I, duke of Masovia (his maternal uncle), who had broken off friendly ties with Daniil. The size of his attacking force suggests that he intended to capture his brother-in-law's capital of Volodymyr-Volynski. However the Cumans plundered the Galician lands, forcing Michail to abandon his campaign.
     "Meanwhile, King Béla IV of Hungary renewed his father's pact with Michail, seemingly relinquished his claim to Halicz and agreed to give Michail military aid. At the beginning of summer 1236 Daniil Romanowitsch and his brother Vasilko Romanowitsch rallied their troops to march against Michail. However he barricaded himself in Halicz with his retinue, the local militia and a contingent of Hungarians. Dissuaded from taking Halicz, they sought to assuage their frustration by seizing its northern outpost of Zvenigorod, but its citizens repelled the attack. After the Hungarian troops had departed, Daniil tried again; Michail attempted to placate his brother-in-law by giving him Przemysl whose inhabitants had supported him in the past. At this time Yuri II Vsevolodovich, grand prince of Vladimir, and Daniil Romanowitsch formed a pact, forced Vladimir Ryurikovich, who had replaced Iziaslav Mstislavich, to vacate Kiev, and appointed Yuri Vsevolodovich's brother Yaroslav Vsevolodovich to the town. The latter arrived in Kiev around March 1236; however he failed to consolidate his rule and returned to Suzdalia. After appointing his son to rule Halicz, Michail came to Kiev where he entered uncontested. Soon after occupying Kiev, he and his son Rosztiszlo attacked Przemysl and took it back from Daniil Romanowitsch. The people of Halicz, however, summoned Daniil back around 1237, and installed him as prince; Rosztiszlo fled to King Béla IV and all the boyars of Halicz submitted to Michail's brother-in-law.
     "In the winter of 1237 Batu Khan came to the frontiers of Ryazan; it is possible that Prince Yury Ingvarevich of Ryazan sent his brother Ingvar Ingvarevich to Chernigov to seek help from Michail, but he sent no troops to the beleaguered princes. On 21 December the Tatars took Ryazan, and they plundered the treasures of the inhabitants including the wealth of their relatives from Kiev and Chernigov.
     "In March 1238 the Tatars, who had routed Yuri II Vsevolodovich's troops and killed him, continued their march, and in the Vyatichi lands they came upon the town of Kozelsk, and they struggled seven weeks to crush it. Archaeological evidence reveals that Michail's domains of Mosalsk and Serensk suffered the same fate.
     "The second phase of the Tatar invasion began early in 1239; on 3 March one contingent took Perejaslawl and set fire to it. Not long after Perejaslawl fell, it would appear that Michail went to Kamenets and organised a general evacuation of his retinue from Kiev. However Yaroslav Vsevolodovich in Suzdalia got word of his destination; he besieged Kamenets, captured Michail's wife, and seized much booty, but Michail escaped and returned to Kiev. When Daniil Romanowitsch learned that his sister, Michail's wife, was being held captive, he asked Yaroslav Vsevolodovich to send her to him.
     "In the autumn of 1239 the Tatars, who had occupied Chernigov on 18 October, sent messengers to Kiev proposing peace, but Michail refused to submit. During the first half of 1240, we are told, Batu Khan sent Möngke to reconnoitre Kiev; when his messengers came to Michail for the second time seeking to coax him into submitting, he defied the khan by putting his envoys to death. The forces of Rus' on whom Michail could still rely were only his own druzhina (detachment of select troops) and the Kievan militia, and so he fled to Hungary. In the chaos that preceded the invasion of the west bank of the river Dnieper, minor princelings and boyars took advantage of the opportunities that presented themselves to seize power: Rostislav Mstislavich seized Kiev, but he was evicted by Daniil Romanowitsch.
     "Meanwhile, Michail had arrived in Hungary where he attempted to arrange a marriage for his son Rosztiszlo with the king's daughter Anna. In the light of Michail's plight, Béla IV saw no advantage to forming such an alliance and evicted Michail and his son from Hungary. In Masovia Michail received a warm welcome from his uncle, but he decided that the expedient course of action was to seek reconciliation and sent envoys to his brother-in-law. Michail pledged never again to antagonise Daniil Romanowitsch and forswore making any future attempts on Halicz. Daniil invited him to Volhynia, returned his wife, and relinquished control of Kiev. In the face of the Tatar attack, however, Michail did not return to Kiev but allowed his brother-in-law to remain there.
     "Towards the end of 1240 Batu Khan encircled Kiev with his troops, and the town fell on 6 December. On learning Kiev's fate, Michail withdrew from Volynia and for the second time imposed himself on his maternal uncle's good graces. When, however, the Tatars also threatened Masovia, he travelled west to Wroclaw (Breslau) in Silesia. As his caravan pressed northwest it came to Sroda, where the local inhabitants attacked it; they plundered his goods and killed a number of his people including his granddaughter. The Tatars invaded Silesia, and after the invaders had passed through Volhynia and the Polish lands, Michail returned to Masovia.
     "Some time in the spring of 1241 Michail considered it safe to go home. He stopped at the devastated town of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, rode northeast to Pinsk, and then travelled down the river Pripyat to Kiev. Unable to return to his court on the citadel because Batu Khan's official had presumably occupied it, he took up residence on a nearby island. Significantly, Batu Khan's man did not challenge his arrival, thereby indicating that the Tatars were willing to let refugee princes return to their ravaged towns without obstruction.
     "On learning that Béla IV had given his daughter in marriage to his son Rosztiszlo (who had fled to the Hungarians) in 1242, Michail believed that his efforts to form an alliance with the Arpád dynasty had finally been realised. He therefore rode to Hungary expecting to negotiate the agreements that normally accompanied such an alliance. However his hopes were dashed: the king and his son rebuffed him when he came to the king's court. Michail, greatly angered by his son, returned empty-handed to Chernigov.
     "Meanwhile, Batu Khan commanded all the princes to visit Saray and pay him homage. Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich of Suzdalia was the first to respond to the summons: at the beginning of 1243 he travelled to Saray, where Batu Khan appointed him senior prince in Rus'. After returning to Suzdalia, he sent his commander to rule Kiev. Accordingly, some time during the second part of that year, Michail abandoned his court on the island below Kiev and returned to Chernigov. But even there his authority was insecure: like all the other princes of Rus', he had to obtain Bata Khan's patent (yarlik) to rule his patrimony.
     "By the end of 1245 only Michail from among the three senior princes had not yet kowtowed to the conqueror. In the end Michail went in time to pre-empt a Tatar punitive strike against his domain; his grandson Boris Vasilkovich, grand duke of Rostow, accompanied him. When they arrived at Saray, Batu Khan sent messengers to Michail's camp instructing him to worship according to the laws of the Tatars by bowing to the fires and idols. Michail agreed to bow to the khan, but he insulted the Tatar by refusing to obey his command to worship idols. Enraged by the prince's retort, Batu Khan ordered that he be put to death. On 20 September 1246 he was slaughtered by Doman of Putivls, and his boyar Fedor was killed after him. The Novgorod First Chronicle, the oldest chronicle reporting his death, narrates that their bodies were thrown to the dogs, but that as a sign of divine favour their bodies remained unmolested and pillars of fire hovered over them.
     "They later became known as 'The Passion-Sufferers of Chernigov' and 'The Miracle-Workers of Chernigov'. The chronicle narrative accounts show that the people of Rus' acknowledged Michail and Fedor as martyrs immediately after their deaths. Accordingly, their bodies were later brought to Chernigov and entombed in a side-chapel dedicated to them in the Holy Saviour Cathedral.
     "Michail was the first prince of the Olgovichi to become a martyr according to the commonly understood meaning of the word. His wife survived him and promoted his cult. His daughter Marija Michailovna and her sons Boris and Gleb Vasilkovich inaugurated the Feast of the Miracle-Workers of Chernigov on 20 September, and built a church in their honour. Her sister Feodula, who had become the nun Evfrosinia, also advanced his cult to judge from a 17th-century account which reports the existence of a wooden chapel in Suzdal dedicated to them.
     "The cult was approved in 1547. When Chernigov was occupied by the Poles in 1578, Ivan IV 'the Terrible' had the relics of the two saints taken to Moscow, where they were placed in the cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel. In times of oppressions particularly, these martyrs have been regarded by the Russians as their special representatives before God.
     "Archaeological evidence reveals that Chernigov towns enjoyed an unprecedented degree of prosperity during Michael's period, which suggests that promoting trade was a priority for him. Commercial interests, in part, also motivated him to seize control of Halicz and Kiev because they were channels through which goods from the Rhine valley and Hungary passed to Chernigov/Tschernigow (today Chernihiv in Ukraine). He also negotiated commercial treaties and political alliances with the Poles and the Hungarians.
     "He alleviated the tax burden of the Novgorodians and granted their boyars greater political freedom from the prince. He was the last autonomous senior prince of Kiev, where he was deposed not by a more powerful prince but by the invincible Mongols. On the eve of Mongol invasion, he was one of the most powerful princes in Rus'. He has been accused of ineffective leadership because he failed to unite the princes of Rus' against the invaders; however this was an impossible task."¹⁰

Reference: Genealogics cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag Marburg., Detlev Schwennicke, Editor, Reference: II 131.¹⁰

; Per Genealogy.EU: "Michail, Pr of Pereslavl (1206), Pr of Novgorod (1224-29), Pr of Chernigov (1224-36)+(1243-46), Pr of Galitzk (1235-38), Great Pr of Kiev (1238-46), *1179, +in Hord 20.9.1246, bur Moscow; m.N, a dau.of Pr Roman of Galitzk."¹ He was Per Wikipedia:
     "Saint Michael of Chernigov[1] or Mikhail Vsevolodovich[2] (c.?1185 – Saray, 20 September 1246) was a Rus' prince (a member of the Rurik dynasty).[3] He was grand prince of Kiev (1236–1240, 1240, 1241–1243); and he was also prince of Pereyaslavl (1206), of Novgorod-Seversk (1219–1226), of Chernigov (1223–1235, 1242–1246), of Novgorod (1225–1226, 1229–1230), and of Halych (1235–1236).[2]
     "Archaeological evidence reveals that Chernihiv towns enjoyed an unprecedented degree of prosperity during his period which suggests that promoting trade was a priority for him.[2] Commercial interests, in part, also motivated him to seize control of Halych and Kiev because they were channels through which goods from the Rhine valley and Hungary passed to Chernihiv (Ukraine).[2] He also negotiated commercial treaties and political alliances with the Poles and the Hungarians.[2]
     "He alleviated the tax burden of the Novgorodians and granted their boyars greater political freedom from the prince.[2] He was the last autonomous senior prince of Kiev, where he was deposed not by a more powerful prince but by the invincible Mongols.[2]
     "On the eve of Mongol invasion, he was one of the most powerful princes in Rus'.[2] He has been accused of ineffective leadership because he failed to unite the princes of Rus' against the invaders; in his defense it must be pointed out that this was an impossible task.[2]
     "Mikhail was the first prince of the Olgovichi (the dynasty of Chernigov) to become a martyr according to the commonly understood meaning of the word: he underwent the penalty of death for persistence in his Christian faith.[2] He and his boyar Fedor (Theodore) were tortured and beheaded by the Tatars.[1]
     "They later became known as "The Passion-Sufferers of Chernigov" and "The Miracle-Workers of Chernigov".[2]
His early life
     "He was the only known son of prince Vsevolod Svyatoslavich (who later became grand prince Vsevolod IV the Red of Kiev), by Anastasia,[2] the daughter of grand duke Casimir II of Poland.[3] The patrimonial domain of his father was located in the northwestern part of the Vyatichi lands where he undoubtedly spent his childhood.[2]
     "When Mikhail was a child, he suffered from a paralyzing illness.[2] His grandfather, grand prince Svyatoslav III Vsevolodovich of Kiev gave much wealth to churches in unsuccessful attempts to obtain a cure.[2] Finally, he heard of the miracle-worker Nikita living in the Monastery of St. Nicetas at Pereyaslavl-Zalessky in Suzdalia.[2] The prince, accompanied by boyars, rode to the town and arrived at the monk's pillar.[2] The stylite gave his staff to one of his boyars to take to the prince; Mikhail took hold of it, was cured, and walked to the miracle-worker's pillar for his blessing.[2] Following his cure, he gave a generous benefaction to the monastery and ordered a stone cross to be erected, according to one source on 16 May 1186, on the spot where he was cured.[2] Although the event is reported only in late sources and embellished with pious details, the account has a ring of truth.[2]
     "In the summer of 1206, his father seized Kiev, sent his posadniki to all the Kievan towns, and forced grand prince Rurik Rostislavich to withdraw to Vruchiy (today Ovruch in Ukraine).[2] Vsevolod Svyatoslavich also evicted Yaroslav Vsevolodovich (son of grand prince Vsevolod Yuryevich of Vladimir) from Pereyaslavl, and gave the town to Mikhail.[2] However, Rurik Rostislavich was determined to regain control of Kiev, and expelled Vsevolod Svyatoslavich with relative ease.[2] Rurik Rostislavich also ordered Mikhail, who had only a small retinue at his disposal, to vacate Pereyaslavl, and thus he withdrew to his father in Chernihiv.[2] Some time in the summer of 1207, his father occupied again Kiev, but in October, Rurik Rostislavich rode to Kiev, drove out Vsevolod Svyatoslavich for the second time and occupied the town; Mikhail accompanied his father from Kiev.[2]
     "No sources report Mikhail's marriage, but evidence suggests that he married Elena Romanovna (or Maria Romanovna),[3] a daughter of prince Roman Mstislavich of Halych in 1210 or 1211.[2]
     "In June 1212, prince Mstislav Romanovich of Smolensk, prince Mstislav Mstislavich the Bold of Novgorod and prince Ingvar Yaroslavich of Lutsk launched a major offensive against Vsevolod Svyatoslavich who confronted the attackers at Vyshgorod.[2] However, the Rostislavichi occupied Kiev.[2] Vsevolod Svyatoslavich fled from Kiev, probably accompanied by Mikhail, for the third time and sought safety in Chernihiv where he died sometime in August 1212.[2] Mikhail probably inherited Bryn, Serensk, and Mosalsk from his father.[2]
     "When his uncle Gleb Svyatoslavich died between 1215 and 1220, and Mstislav II Svyatoslavich moved to Chernihiv, Mikhail, because of his status as the second in seniority, probably occupied Novgorod-Seversk.[2]
     "In the spring of 1223,[2] a strong Mongol cavalry corps under the command of Jebe and Subutai which had been sent by Genghis Khan to reconnoiter the "western lands" entered the land of the Cumans.[4] Unable to withstand the onslaught, the Cumans fled to Rus' warning the princes that if they refused to send aid the same fate would befall them.[2] At the war council of the Rus' princes it was decided not to wait for the coming of the Tatars but to attack them deep in the Cuman steppes.[4] Mikhail also attended the meeting.[2] The united forces of the princes went down the river Dnieper, and the first skirmish took place on the banks of the river.[4] In this vanguard battle Mstislav Mstislavich the Bold succeeded in defeating a detachment of Mongol troops.[4]
     "Crossing the Dnieper, their armies marched through the steppes for 8 days before they met the main Mongol force at the banks of the Kalka River.[4] There was no unity of command in the Russian army.[4] The results were disastrous: a number of princes (including Mstislav II Svyatoslavich of Chernigov) had perished during the fight.[4]
Prince of Chernigov and Novgorod
     "Mikhail was probably among the first survivors who returned to Chernihiv.[2] The chronicles do not tell us that Mikhail replaced Mstislav II Svyatoslavich as prince of Chernigov, but later evidence reveals that after his uncle's demise he sat on the throne of his father and grandfather in the Holy Saviour Cathedral.[2] The ceremony probably took place around 16 June.[2] Because princes of his generation predeceased him and had no heirs, Mikhail, in his capacity as senior prince, assumed control over a number of their domains.[2] This accumulation of territories made him the largest landowner in the land.[2]
     "At that time, the Novgorodians acknowledged grand prince Yuri II Vsevolodovich of Vladimir as their overlord, but they frequently challenged his appointment of princes.[2] In 1224, his son, Vsevolod Yuryevich had to flee from Novgorod.[2] It appears that Mikhail was already in Vladimir on the Klyazma when Yuri Vsevolodovich learnt of his son's flight.[2] Yuri Vsevolodovich threatened the Novgorodians to attack; in response, they confirmed their loyalty to him but made a pact to die in the defense of the Cathedral of St. Sofia.[2] Yuri Vsevolodovich, therefore, proposed that they accept Mikhail as prince.[2] The Novgorodians agreed and, in March 1225, Mikhail occupied Novgorod.[2] Nevertheless, Yuri Vsevolodovich demanded the sum of 7,000 novuyu as a fine from the citizens and confiscated their goods.[2]
     "Mikhail went to Novgorod, where he acted as Yuri Vsevolodovich's appointee and not as an autonomous ruler, with the intention of returning to Chernihiv.[2] One of his most important tasks was to recover the Novgorodians' wares that Yuri Vsevolodovich had confiscated at Torzhok and in his own domain.[2] Before departing from Novgorod, Mikhail invited the townsmen to send merchants to Chernihiv and declared that their lands and his would be as one.[2] After he departed from Novgorod, the veche sent its request for a prince to Yuri Vsevolodovich's brother, prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich of Pereyaslavl Zalesskiy.[2]
     "About a year after Mikhail returned to Chernihiv, it appears he became involved in a dynastic dispute: Oleg Svyatoslavich of Kursk prepared to wage war on him.[2] The available evidence suggests that the bone of contention was Novhorod-Siverskyi.[2] It is noteworthy that the chroniclers accuse neither Mikhail nor Oleg of wrongdoing which suggests that each had a just cause.[2] During the winter of 1227, Yuri Vsevolodovich, and his nephews (prince Vasilko Konstantinovich of Rostov and prince Vsevolod Konstantinovich of Pereyaslavl) came to help Mikhail against Oleg Svyatoslavich; in addition to them, Metropolitan Kirill I of Kiev also helped to reconcile Mikhail with Oleg who evidently became the prince of Novgorod Seversk.[2]
     "In 1228, grand prince Vladimir III Rurikovich of Kiev summoned Mikhail and attacked the latter's brother-in-law, prince Daniil Romanovich of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, who had seized the towns of Lutsk and Chertoryysk, in Kamenets.[2] However, they failed to take Kamenets whose ability to withstand the siege is all the more impressive because Vladimir III Rurikovich allegedly attacked with all his allies.[2]
     "In December 1228, the common people of Novgorod rose up in arms against tysyatskiy Vyacheslav and appointed Boris Negochevich in his place, and invited Yaroslav Vsevolodovich to return according to a new agreement.[2] They insisted that he abide by all their terms and by all the laws of Yaroslav the Wise; he also had to cancel the zaboshnitse (a special tax levied on churches which also served as warehouses), and to stop appointing his judges in the Novgorodian lands.[2] On 20 February 1229, therefore, Yaroslav Vsevolodovich's sons (Fedor Yaroslavich and Aleksandr Yaroslavich) fled to their father.[2] The Novgorodians got word to Mikhail, and he set out for Novgorod upon receiving the invitation; he arrived in Novgorod around the beginning of May.[2]
     "Mikhail and the townsmen introduced measures to waken Yaroslav Vsevolodovich's power: the veche appointed Vnezd Vodovik as the new posadnik and also removed his other administrators.[2] After levying heavy fines on Yaroslav Vsevolodovich's supporters, the Novgorodians used the money for the benefit of the entire community by paying for the construction of a new bridge.[2]
     "Mikhail's pro-Novgorod legislation included granting the town officials some of the prince's power: he permitted the boyars to appoint their own judges.[2] He also abrogated the zabozhnitse, placed a moratorium on the payment of tribute for five years on those peasants who had fled to other lands and agreed to return to their Novgorodian homes, and lessened the tax burden of the common people.[2] After spending some three months in Novgorod, Mikhail returned home.[2] When he departed from Novgorod, he designated his son Rostislav Mikhailovich to remain as his lieutenant, and on returning to Chernihiv he took with him prominent Novgorodians.[2]
     "In May 1230 he returned to Novgorod where he installed his son on the throne.[2] Before departing, he promised the Novgorodians to return with troops by 14 September.[2] On 8 December the Novgorodians forced Rostislav Mikhailovich to flee to his father on just the feeble pretext that Mikhail had promised to bring troops by 14 September, but it was already December and he had not come.[2] In this way Yaroslav Vsevolodovich's supporters evicted the Olgovichi from Novgorod, as it turned out, for the last time.[2] They summoned Yaroslav Vsevolodovich and he came on December 30.[2] Meanwhile, a core of dissenters found refuge with Mikhail; to secure his hegemony over Novgorod, therefore, Yaroslav Vsevolodovich had to stop Mikhail from giving them support.[2]
Prince of Chernigov and grand prince of Kiev
     "In the summer or autumn of 1231, Mikhail waged war against grand prince Vladimir III Rurikovich of Kiev who sent an appeal for help to Daniil Romanovich (Mikhail's brother-in-law).[2] We are told that Daniil Romanovich came and pacified the two princes.[2]
     "In the autumn of 1231, Yaroslav Vsevolodovich attacked the northwest district of the Vyatichi lands.[2] He set fire to Serensk (which was most likely the administrative center of Mikhail's patrimony), but when he besieged Mosalsk, he failed to take it.[2] Yaroslav, however, refused to conclude peace which signaled to Mikhail that he was prepared to pursue his objective until Mikhail expelled the Novgorodian fugitives from his lands.[2] Towards the end of 1231 Vnezd Vodovik died in Chernihiv; Mikhail had been bound to support Vodovik owing to their mutual oaths, and Vodovik's deaths released him from that obligation.[2] Therefore, tysyatskiy Boris Negochevich and his band left Chernihiv before Easter of 1232.[2]
     "In 1232, troops sent by Vladimir III Rurikovich pursued and captured the princes of Bolokhoveni who had invaded Daniil Romanovich's lands and handed them over to the latter.[2] Mikhail and prince Iziaslav Vladimirovich of Putyvl threatened to attack Daniil Romanovich if he refused to release them.[2] Although Vladimir Rurikovich renewed his pact with Daniil Romanovich, Mikhail and Iziaslav Vladimirovich continued waging war against them.[2] In January 1235, Vladimir Rurikovich and Daniil Romanovich attacked Chernihiv, plundered the environs and set fire to the outer town hoping to make Mikhail submit.[2] He, however, promised Daniil Romanovich many gifts if he would desert Vladimir III Rurikovich.[2] Daniil Romanovich agreed and attempted to persuade Vladimir to lift the siege; but Mikhail sallied out of Chernihiv at night, caught Daniil Romanovich's troops by surprise, and killed many of them.[2] His brother-in-law barely escaped and was forced to withdraw to the Kievan land.[2]
     "Mikhail waited until Iziaslav Vladimirovich brought the Cumans and then rode in pursuit.[2] The two sides clashed near Torchesk where Vladimir Rurikovich and Daniil Romanovich were defeated, and the former and many boyars were also taken captive.[2] Meanwhile, Mikhail's allies took Kiev where he evidently made the German merchants, who had come to Kiev via Novgorod, pay redemption-fees for their goods, and then appointed his puppet, Izyaslav Mstislavich (one of the Rostislavichi) to the throne.[2]
     "At an undisclosed date after Daniil Romanovich returned to Halych from his defeat at Torchesk, its boyars rebelled and forced him to flee to Hungary.[2] Towards the end of September, Mikhail occupied Halych, while his comrade-in-arms, Izyaslav Vladimirovich seized Kamenets.[2] In the spring of 1236, Mikhail attacked Daniil Romanovich in Volhynia.[2] In addition to his own retinue, he was probably accompanied by Galician boyars, the princes of Bolokhoveni, and troops from the Kievan land.[2] He also sent Izyaslav Vladimirovich to bring the Cumans; and finally, he summoned duke Konrad I of Masovia (his maternal uncle) who had broken off friendly ties with Daniil Romanovich.[2] The size of his attacking force suggests that he intended to capture his brother-in-law's capital of Volodymyr-Volynskyi.[2] However, the Cumans plundered the Galician lands forcing Mikhail to abandon his campaign.[2]
     "Meanwhile, king Béla IV of Hungary renewed his father's pact with Mikhail, and seemingly relinquished his claim to Halych and also agreed to give Mikhail military aid.[2] At the beginning of the summer of 1236, Daniil Romanovich and his brother Vasilko Romanovich rallied their troops to march against Mikhail.[2] However, he barricaded himself in Halych with his retinue, the local militia, and a contingent of Hungarians.[2] Dissuaded from taking Halych, they sought to assuage their frustration by seizing its northern outpost of Zvenigorod, but its citizens repelled the attack.[2] After the Hungarian troops had departed, Daniil Romanovich tried again; Mikhail attempted to placate his brother-in-law by giving him Przemy?l whose inhabitants had supported him in the past.[2]
     "Meanwhile, grand prince Yuri II Vsevolodovich of Vladimir and Daniil Romanovich formed a pact, forced Vladimir Ryurikovich, who had replaced Izyaslav Mstislavich, to vacate Kiev, and appointed Yury Vsevolodovich's brother Yaroslav Vsevolodovich to the town.[2] The latter arrived in Kiev around March 1236; but he failed to consolidate his rule and returned to Suzdalia.[2] After appointing his son to rule Halych, Mikhail came to Kiev where he entered uncontested.[2] Soon after occupying Kiev, he and his son attacked Przemy?l and took it back from Daniil Romanovich.[2] The people of Halych, however, summoned Daniil Romanovich around 1237, and installed him as prince; Mikhail's son fled to king Béla IV and all the boyars of Halych submitted to Mikhail's brother-in-law.[2]
The Mongol invasion of Rus'
     "In the winter of 1237, Batu Khan came to the frontiers of Ryazan; it is possible that Prince Yury Ingvarevich (Prince of Ryazan)|Yury Ingvarevich of Ryazan sent his brother, Ingvar II Ingvarevich (Prince of Ryazan)|Ingvar Ingvarevich to Chernihiv to seek help from Mikhail, but he sent no troops to the beleaguered princes.[2] On 21 December the Mongols took Ryazan, and they plundered the treasures of the inhabitants including the wealth of their relatives from Kiev and Chernihiv.[2]
     "In March 1238 the Mongols, who had routed Yuri II Vsevolodovich's troops and killed him, continued their march, and in the Vyatichi lands they came upon the town of Kozelsk, and they struggled 7 weeks to crush it.[2] Archaeological evidence reveals that Mikhail's domains of Mosalsk and Serensk suffered the same fate.[2]
     "The second phase of the Mongol invasion began early in 1239; on March 3 one contingent took Pereyaslavl and set fire to it.[2] Not long after Pereyaslavl fell, it would appear, Mikhail went to Kamenets, and organized a general evacuation of his retinue from Kiev.[2] However, Yaroslav Vsevolodovich in Suzdalia got word of his destination; he besieged Kamenets, captured Mikhail's wife, and seized much booty, but Mikhail escaped and returned to Kiev.[2] When Daniil Romanovich learnt that his sister (Mikhail's wife) was being held captive, he asked Yaroslav Vsevolodovich to send her to him.[2]
     "In the autumn of 1239, the Mongols, who had occupied Chernihiv on October 18, sent messengers to Kiev proposing peace, but Mikhail refused to submit.[2] During the first half of 1240, we are told, Batu Khan sent Möngke to reconnoiter Kiev; when his messengers came to Mikhail for the second time seeking to coax him into submitting, he defied the khan by putting his envoys to deaths.[2] The forces in Rus' on whom Mikhail could still rely were his own druzhina and the Kievan militia, and therefore he fled to Hungary.[2]
     "In the chaos that preceded the invasion of the west bank of the river Dnieper, minor princelings and boyars took advantage of the opportunities that presented themselves to seize power: Rostislav Mstislavich seized Kiev, but he was evicted by Daniil Romanovich.[2]
     "Meanwhile, Mikhail had arrived in Hungary where he attempted to arrange a marriage for his son Rostislav Mikhailovich with the king's daughter.[2] In the light of Mikhail's plight, Béla IV saw no advantage to forming such an alliance and evicted Mikhail and his son from Hungary.[2] In Mazovia, Mikhail received a warm welcome from his uncle, but he decided that the expedient course of action was to seek reconciliation and sent envoys to his brother-in-law.[2] Mikhail pledged never again to antagonize Daniil Romanovich and forswore making any future attempts on Halych.[2] Daniil Romanovich invited him to Volhynia, returned his wife, and relinquished control of Kiev.[2] In the face of the Mongol attack, however, Mikhail did not return to Kiev but allowed his brother-in-law's men to remain there.[2]
     "Towards the end of 1240, Batu Khan encircled Kiev with his troops, and the town fell on December 6.[2] On learning Kiev's fate, Mikhail withdrew from Volhynia and for the second time imposed himself on his maternal uncle's good graces.[2] When, however, the Mongols also threatened Mazovia, he traveled west to Wroc?aw in Silesia.[2] As his caravan pressed northwest, it came to ?roda, where the local inhabitants attacked Mikhail's train; they plundered his goods and killed a number of his people including his granddaughter.[2] The Mongols invaded Silesia, and after the invaders had passed through Volhynia and the Polish lands, Mikhail returned to Mazovia.[2]
His last years
     "Some time in the spring of 1241, he considered it safe to go home.[2] He stopped at the devastated town of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, rode northeast to Pinsk, and then traveled down the river Pripyat to Kiev.[2] Unable to return to his court on the citadel because Batu Khan's official had presumably occupied it, he took up residence on an island near the Podil (Old Kyiv was razed).[2] Significantly, Batu Khan's man did not challenge his arrival thereby indicating that the Mongols were willing to let refugee princes return to their ravaged towns without obstruction.[2]
     "On learning that Béla IV had given his daughter in marriage to his son, Rostislav Mikhailovich (who had fled to the Hungarians) in 1242, Mikhail believed that his efforts to form an alliance with the Árpád dynasty had finally been realized.[2] He therefore rode to Hungary expecting to negotiate the agreements that normally accompanied such an alliance.[2] However, his hopes were dashed: the king and his son rebuffed him when he came to the king's court.[2] Mikhail, greatly angered by his son, returned empty-handed to Chernihiv.[2]
     "Meanwhile, Batu Khan commanded all the princes to visit Sarai and pay him homage.[2] Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich of Suzdal was the first to respond to the summons: at the beginning of 1243, he traveled to Sarai, where Batu Khan appointed him senior prince in Rus'.[2] After returning to Suzdal, he sent his commander to rule Kiev.[2] Accordingly, some time during the second part of that year, Mikhail abandoned his court on the island below Kiev and returned to Chernihiv.[2] But even there his authority was insecure: like all the other princes of Rus', he had to obtain Batu Khan's patent (yarlik) to rule his patrimony.[2]
His martyrdom and his cult
     "By the end of 1245, only Mikhail from among the three senior princes had not yet kowtowed to the conqueror.[2] In the end, Mikhail went in time to pre-empt a Mongol punitive strike against his domain; his grandson, Boris Vasilkovich of Rostov accompanied him.[2]
     "When they arrived at Saray, Batu Khan sent messengers to Mikhail's camp instructing him to worship according to the laws of the Mongols by bowing to the fires and idols.[2] Mikhail agreed to bow to the khan, but he insulted the Mongol by refusing to obey his command to worship idols.[2] Enraged by the prince's retort, Batu Khan ordered that he be put to death.[2] He was slaughtered by Doman of Putivls, and Fedor his boyar was killed after him.[2] The Novgorod First Chronicle, the oldest chronicle reporting his death narrates that their bodies were thrown to the dogs; but as a sign of divine favor, their bodies remained unmolested and pillars of fire hovered over them.[2]
     "The chronicle narrative accounts show that the people of Rus' acknowledged Mikhail and Fedor as martyrs immediately after their deaths.[1] Accordingly, their bodies were later brought to Chernihiv and entombed in a side-chapel dedicated to them (The Miracle-Workers of Chernigov) in the Holy Saviour Cathedral.[1]
     "His wife survived him and promoted his cult.[2] His daughter Maria and her sons, Boris and Gleb Vasilkovich, inaugurated the Feast of the Miracle-Workers of Chernigov, on September 20, and built a church in their honor.[2] Her sister, Feodula who had become the nun Evfrosinia also advanced his cult to judge from a 17th-century account which reports the existence of a wooden chapel in Suzdal dedicated to them.[2]
     "The cult was approved in 1547.[1] When Chernihiv was occupied by the Poles in 1578, Ivan IV the Terrible had the relics of the two saints taken to Moscow, where they were placed in the cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel.[1] In times of oppressions particularly, these martyrs have been regarded by the Russians as their special representatives before God.[1]
Marriage and children
     "#1210/1211: Elena Romanovna (or Maria Romanovna),[3] a daughter of prince Roman Mstislavich of Halych and his wife, Predslava Rurikovna of Kiev[2]
** Feodula Mikhailovna (1212–1250); she became nun and adopted the religious name of Evfrosinia;[2]
** Duke Rostislav Mikhailovich of Macsó (after 1210 / c. 1225[3] - 1262);[2]
** Maria Mikhailovna (? - December 7/9, 1271),[3] wife of Prince Vasilko Konstantinovich of Rostov;[2]
** Prince Roman Mikhailovich of Chernigov and Bryansk (c. 1218 - after 1288 / after 1305[3]);[2]
** Prince Mstislav Mikhailovich of Karachev and Zvenigorod[2] (1220–1280);[3]
** Prince Simeon Mikhailovich of Glukhov and Novosil;[2]
** Prince Yury Mikhailovich of Torusa and Bryansk.[2]
     "NB: The existence of the last four sons is disputed (see His descendants below).
His descendants
     "In the second half of the 19th century, many family branches stemming from Mikhail flourished: the Boryatinskie, the Gorchakovy, the Dolgorukie, the Eletskie, the Zvenigorodskie, the Koltsovy-Mosalskie, the Obolenskie, the Odoevskie, and the Shcherbatovy.[2]
     "Nicolas Baumgarten in his Généalogies et mariages occidentaux des Rurikides russes du Xe au XIIIe siècle (Orientalia christiana 9, no. 35 (1927)) includes the following important appendix with regard to Mikhail's alleged descendants. Essentially, the four princes—Roman, Simeon, Mstislav, and Iurii (Yury)—claimed in most published genealogies past and present (Dolgorukov, Vlas'ev, Ikonnikov, Ferrand, Dumin & Grebel'skii, etc.) as his sons and as the progenitors of numerous Russian princely families are apparently not to be found in any original historical document, appearing for the first time in the genealogies composed—or more likely contrived—in the 16th century, which witnessed a spate of fanciful genealogical aspirations among European royal and noble families (the Habsburgs claimed descent from Julius Caesar's cousin Sextus (among others); the Bagratids of Georgia, from the biblical King David; the Lévis-Mirepoix, from cousins of the Virgin Mary; and the Muscovite tsars, from Augustus Caesar, to name but a few):
Footnotes
1. Thurston, Herbert (Editor). Butler's Lives of the Saints - September.
2. Dimnik, Martin. The Dynasty of Chernigov - 1146-1246.
3. Charles Cawley (2009-03-14). "Russia, Rurikids - Grand Princes of Kiev, Princes of Chernihiv, descendants of Sviatoslav II, Grand Prince of Kiev (fourth son of Iaroslav I)". Medieval Lands. Foundation of Medieval Genealogy. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
4. Vernadsky, George. Kievan Russia.
5. DiPlano Carpini, Giovanni. The Story of the Mongols whom We Call the Tartars.
6. Nicolas Baumgarten, Généalogies et mariages occidentaux des Rurikides russes du Xe au XIIIe siècle, Orientalia christiana 9, no. 35 (1927): 86-88.
Sources
** Dimnik, Martin: The Dynasty of Chernigov - 1146-1246; Cambridge University Press, 2003, Cambridge; ISBN 978-0-521-03981-9.
** DiPlano Carpini, Giovanni (Author) - Hildinger, Erik (Translator): The Story of the Mongols whom We Call the Tartars; Branden Publishing Company, Inc, 1996, Boston, MA; ISBN 0-8283-2017-9.
** Thurston, Herbert, S.J. (Editor): Butler's Lives of the Saints - September; Burns & Oates / Search Press Limited, 1999; ISBN 0-86012-258-1.
** Vernadsky, George: Kievan Russia; Yale University Press, 1948, New Haven and London; ISBN 0-300-01647-6.
** Baumgarten, Nicolas. Généalogies et mariages occidentaux des Rurikides russes du Xe au XIIIe siècle. Orientalia christiana 9, no. 35 (1927)."⁹

; Per Med Lands:
     "MIKHAIL Vsevolodich, son of VSEVOLOD Sviatoslavich "Chermnyi" Grand Prince of Kiev & his first wife [Anastasia] of Poland ([1185]-executed 20 Sep 1246). His father established Mikhail as Prince of Pereyaslavl in 1206, during the former's first brief period of rule in Kiev, but he lost the principality to Rurik II Rostislavich Grand Prince of Kiev later the same year[308]. Prince of Chernigov 1226. The Novgorod Chronicle records that "Mikhail son of Vsevolod grandson of Oleg" was installed as Prince of Novgorod in early 1225[309], left for Chernigov later the same year, but returned in 1229 only to leave again in 1230 leaving his son Rostislav at Novgorod[310]. Challenging the supremacy of the Rostislavichi branch in Kiev, he allied himself with the Kuman and attacked Kiev. Vladimir Rurikovich Grand Prince of Kiev was captured, although released upon payment of a ransom, and Mikhail succeeded by 1237 as MIKHAIL Grand Prince of Kiev. Faced with the threat of attack by the Mongols, who had invaded north-eastern Rus, Mikhail fled to Hungary after the fall of Chernigov 18 Oct 1239[311]. After several years seeking assistance and refuge in Hungary, Poland and Galich, by 1243 he accepted the Mongols' recognition of Iaroslav Vsevolodich as senior prince of the dynasty and returned to Chernigov. He visited the Mongol capital Sarai to pay allegiance, but refused to comply with the requirements made of him and was executed. He was later recognised as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church[312].
     "m ([1211]) MARIA Romanovna, daughter of ROMAN Mstislavich Prince of Galich & his first wife Predslava Rurikovna (-after 1241).
     "Mikhail Grand Prince of Kiev & his wife had [seven] children."
Med Lands cites:

; Per Genealogy.EU (Rurik 6): “A1. Michail, Pr of Pereslavl (1206), Pr of Novgorod (1224-29), Pr of Chernigov (1224-36)+(1243-46), Pr of Galitzk (1235-38), Great Pr of Kiev (1238-46), *1179, +in Hord 20.9.1246, bur Moscow; m.before 1200 Maria of Galicia (+after 1241)”

Per Genealogy.EU (Rurik 9): “C2. [1m.] Maria, +after 1241; m.before 1200 Mikhail of Chernigov and Kiev (+20.9.1246)”.^8,11

; Per Med Lands:
     "MARIA Romanovna (-after 1241). Baumgarten names her and cites a primary source[650].
     "m ([1211]) MIKHAIL Vsevolodich ex-Prince of Pereyaslavl, son of VSEVOLOD Sviatoslavich "Chermnyi" Grand Prince of Kiev & his first wife [Anastasia] of Poland ([1185]-executed 20 Sep 1246). Prince of Chernigov 1226. He succeeded by 1237 as MIKHAIL Grand Prince of Kiev. "
Med Lands cites: He was Prince of Pereslavl in 1206.¹ He was Prince of Novgorod between 1224 and 1229.¹ He was Prince of Chernigov between 1224 and 1236.¹ He was Prince of Galitzk between 1235 and 1238.¹ He was Great Prince of Kiev. (See attached map of Kievan Rus in 1237 from Wikipedia: By Goran tek-en, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86964841) between 1238 and 1246.^1,9 He was Prince of Chernigov between 1243 and 1246.¹

     Marija Romanowna (?) of Halicz married Mikhail Vsevolodich "the Saint" (?) Gr Pr of Kiev, Prince of Pereslavl, Novgorod, Chernigov, and Galitzk, son of Vsevolod III Sviatoslavich "Chermnyi" (?) Prince of Chernigov, Grand Duke of Kiev, Fürst of Perejaslawl and Maria/Anastasia (?) of Poland, in 1211.^5,6,2

Marija Romanowna (?) of Halicz died after 1241.¹
      ; Per Med Lands:
     "MIKHAIL Vsevolodich, son of VSEVOLOD Sviatoslavich "Chermnyi" Grand Prince of Kiev & his first wife [Anastasia] of Poland ([1185]-executed 20 Sep 1246). His father established Mikhail as Prince of Pereyaslavl in 1206, during the former's first brief period of rule in Kiev, but he lost the principality to Rurik II Rostislavich Grand Prince of Kiev later the same year[308]. Prince of Chernigov 1226. The Novgorod Chronicle records that "Mikhail son of Vsevolod grandson of Oleg" was installed as Prince of Novgorod in early 1225[309], left for Chernigov later the same year, but returned in 1229 only to leave again in 1230 leaving his son Rostislav at Novgorod[310]. Challenging the supremacy of the Rostislavichi branch in Kiev, he allied himself with the Kuman and attacked Kiev. Vladimir Rurikovich Grand Prince of Kiev was captured, although released upon payment of a ransom, and Mikhail succeeded by 1237 as MIKHAIL Grand Prince of Kiev. Faced with the threat of attack by the Mongols, who had invaded north-eastern Rus, Mikhail fled to Hungary after the fall of Chernigov 18 Oct 1239[311]. After several years seeking assistance and refuge in Hungary, Poland and Galich, by 1243 he accepted the Mongols' recognition of Iaroslav Vsevolodich as senior prince of the dynasty and returned to Chernigov. He visited the Mongol capital Sarai to pay allegiance, but refused to comply with the requirements made of him and was executed. He was later recognised as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church[312].
     "m ([1211]) MARIA Romanovna, daughter of ROMAN Mstislavich Prince of Galich & his first wife Predslava Rurikovna (-after 1241).
     "Mikhail Grand Prince of Kiev & his wife had [seven] children."
Med Lands cites:

Reference: Genealogics cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.) 2:131.² EDV-24.

; Per Genealogy.EU (Rurik 6): “A1. Michail, Pr of Pereslavl (1206), Pr of Novgorod (1224-29), Pr of Chernigov (1224-36)+(1243-46), Pr of Galitzk (1235-38), Great Pr of Kiev (1238-46), *1179, +in Hord 20.9.1246, bur Moscow; m.before 1200 Maria of Galicia (+after 1241)”

Per Genealogy.EU (Rurik 9): “C2. [1m.] Maria, +after 1241; m.before 1200 Mikhail of Chernigov and Kiev (+20.9.1246)”.^2,8

; Per Med Lands:
     "MARIA Romanovna (-after 1241). Baumgarten names her and cites a primary source[650].
     "m ([1211]) MIKHAIL Vsevolodich ex-Prince of Pereyaslavl, son of VSEVOLOD Sviatoslavich "Chermnyi" Grand Prince of Kiev & his first wife [Anastasia] of Poland ([1185]-executed 20 Sep 1246). Prince of Chernigov 1226. He succeeded by 1237 as MIKHAIL Grand Prince of Kiev. "
Med Lands cites:

     Roman Mstislavich "the Great" (?) Grand Duke of Kiev, Novgorod, Halicz married Predslawa Rjurikowna (?) of Owrutsch, daughter of Rjurik II Rostislavich (?) Grand Prince of Kiev and Anna Georgiewna (?) of Turow.^7,2,3,8
Roman Mstislavich "the Great" (?) Grand Duke of Kiev, Novgorod, Halicz was born after 1160.² He married Anna Angelina, daughter of Isaac/Isaakios II Angelos Emperor of Byzantium and Eirene/Irene Tornikaina, in 1200
; his 2nd wife.⁹
Roman Mstislavich "the Great" (?) Grand Duke of Kiev, Novgorod, Halicz died on 19 June 1205 at near Zavikhvost; Leo van de Pas says "killed in battle"; Rurik 9 page says "murdered."^2,3
      ; Per Genealogics:
     "Roman, known as 'the Great' was born after 1160, the son of Mstislaw II Chabry, grand duke of Kiev, and Agnieszka of Poland. During 1168-1170 he reigned in Novgorod. From 1170 to 1199 he ruled in Volodymyr-Volynsky, which he inherited from his father. In 1187 he made an unsuccessful attempt to wrest from the boyars the principality of Halicz. By Predslawa Rjurikowna of Owrutsch, daughter of Rjurik II Wassilij, grand duke of Kiev, and Anna Georgiewna of Turow, Roman had a daughter Marija who would have progeny, marrying Michail 'the Saint', grand duke of Kiev. In 1197 he married Anna Komnena of Byzantium, by whom he had several children including Daniil Romanowitsch who would have progeny and become king of Halicz, and his brother Vasylko Romanowitsch.
     "Roman gained nation-wide fame by his victorious campaign against the Polovtsi in 1197-1198, 1201 and 1204. In 1199 he became prince of Halicz, uniting Halichina and Volhynia lands in the mighty principality of Halicz-Volhynia. In 1202 he also captured Kiev, uniting all south-west Ruthenia under his rule. Prominent as a warlord, Roman 'the Great' was also generally considered a wise politician. He lived mostly in peace with Hungary and Poland, but had uneasy relationships with several other neighbouring states. In 1205 he decided to stage an ill-fated invasion of Poland; he was killed at the Battle of Zawichost on 19 June that year, and Rus' power waned in the aftermath."¹⁰

; Roman "the Great", Pr of Novgorod (1168-70), Pr of Vladimir-Volynsk (1173-99), Pr of Galitzia (1199-1205), Pr of Kiev (1203-05), +murdered nr Zavikhvost 19.6.1205; m.Predislava, a dau.of Pr Rurik of Smolensk.³

Reference: Genealogics cites:

; Per Wikipedia:
     "Roman Mstislavich[1][2] (Russian: ????? ??????????; Ukrainian: ????? ??????????/Roman Mstyslavych[3]), known as Roman the Great[4] (c. 1152 – Zawichost, 19 June 1205) was a Rus’ prince, Grand Prince of Kiev (a member of the Rurik dynasty).[3]
     "He was prince of Novgorod (1168–1170), of Vladimir-in-Volhynia (1170–1189, 1189–1205), and of Halych (1189, 1198/99–1205).[2] By seizing the throne of Halych, he became the master of all western Rus’.[5] In the early 13th century, the Byzantine imperial title, "autocrate" (??????????) was applied by the chroniclers to him, but there is no evidence that he assumed it officially.[5]
     "He waged two successful campaigns against the Cumans, from which he returned with many rescued captives.[3] The effect of Roman's victory was, however, undermined by new dissensions among the princes of Rus’.[5]
     "Roman died in a battle with the Poles at the Battle of Zawichost.[5] He founded the Romanovich dynasty[3] that would rule Vladimir-in-Volhynia and Halych until 1340.[6]
Early years
     "He was the eldest son of Mstislav Izyaslavich (who was prince of Vladimir-in-Volhynia at that time), and Agnes, a daughter of Duke Boles?aw III of Poland.[1]
     "After the Novgorodians had expelled their prince, Svyatoslav IV Rostislavich, Roman was sent to Novgorod on 14 April 1168 by his father (who had earlier occupied Kiev).[2] However, the princes of Smolensk (Svyatoslav IV Rostislavich's brothers) and Prince Andrey Yuryevich of Vladimir (who had supported Svyatoslav IV Rostislavich's rule in Novgorod) spent the rest of the year conspiring and forming alliances against Mstislav Izyaslavich.[2]
     "Following the death of Mstislav Iziaslavich in August, 1170, the Novgorodians expelled Roman and invited Andrey Yuryevich to be prince, and the latter sent Ryurik Rostislavich to rule Novgorod.[2]
Prince of Vladimir-in-Volhynia
     "When his father died, Roman was bequeathed the Principality of Vladimir-in-Volhynia.[3] He subdued the Yotvingians, and harnessed the captives instead of oxen to drag the plows on his estates.[5]
     "Roman married Predslava Ryurikovna, a daughter of Ryurik Rostislavich (who had followed him in Novgorod).[1] Their eldest daughter was married to Vasilko Vladimirovich, a grandson of Prince Yaroslav Volodimerovich Osmomysl of Halych, but later she was repudiated.[1]
     "Following the death of Yaroslav Osmomysl on 1 October 1187, trouble began in the Principality of Halych, due to the strife between his two sons,[5] Oleg and Vladimir Yaroslavich.[2] Roman urged the Galicians to evict Vladimir Yaroslavich and make him their prince.[2] But they failed either to expel Vladimir Yaroslavich or to kill him.[2] When, however, the Galicians threatened to kill his wife, Vladimir Yaroslavich took her and fled to King Béla III of Hungary (1172–1196).[2] According to a late chronicle, Oleg Yaroslavich was appointed by Duke Casimir II of Poland (1177–1194) to rule in Halych, but the Galicians poisoned him and invited Roman to be their prince.[2] When accepting their offer, Roman gave his patrimony of Vladimir-in-Volhynia to his brother, Vsevolod Mstislavich.[2]
     "But King Béla III marched against Roman intending to reinstate Vladimir Yaroslavich,[2] and the Hungarians seized the principality.[5] But King Béla III, instead of returning Halych to Vladimir Yaroslavich, proclaimed his own son, Andrew ruler of the principality.[5]
     "Roman was obliged to flee to Vladimir-in-Volhynia, but his brother, Vsevolod Mstislavich refused him entry.[2] He therefore went to the Poles, but when they refused to help him, Roman rode to his father-in-law, Ryurik Rostislavich in Belgorod.[2] Roman solicited military aid from his father-in-law, but the Hungarian troops repelled his attack.[2] Ryurik Rostislavich, therefore, helped Roman to drive out Vsevolod Mstislavich from Vladimir-in-Volhynia and return to his patrimony.[2]
     "Meanwhile, Vladimir Yaroslavich succeeded in escaping from his dungeon in Hungary; Duke Casimir II also sent Polish troops to Halych to support Vladimir Yaroslavich's claims.[5] At the approach of the expedition, the townspeople rose against the Hungarians and expelled Andrew in 1190.[5] Vladimir Yaroslavich requested his uncle Prince Vsevolod III Yuryevich of Vladimir to support his rule.[5] Vsevolod Yuryevich demanded that all the Rus’ princes, among them Roman, pledge not to challenge Vladimir Yaroslavich in Halych and they agreed.[2]
     "On 17 May 1195, Grand Prince Ryurik Rostislavich (Roman's father-in-law) allocated domains in the Kievan lands to the princes in Monomakh's dynasty, and Roman received Torchesk, Trypillia, Korsun, Bohuslav, and Kaniv.[2] Vsevolod III Yuryevich, however, threatened to wage war when he learnt of the allocations, and therefore Roman agreed to relinquish the towns in exchange for comparable domains or a suitable payment in kuny.[2] Ryurik Rostislavich therefore gave the five towns to Vsevolod III Yuryevich, who, in turn, handed over Torchesk to his son-in-law, Rostislav Rurikovich (who was the brother of Roman's wife).[2] On learning that his brother-in-law had received Torchesk, Roman accused his father-in-law, Ryurik Rostislavich of contriving to give the domain to his son from the very start.[2] Ryurik Rostislavich also warned Roman that they could not afford to alienate Vsevolod III Yuryevich because all the princes in Monomakh's dynasty recognized him as their senior prince.[2]
     "Roman refused to be mollified and conspired against his father-in-law, and turned to Prince Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich of Chernigov who agreed to join him.[2] When Ryurik Rostislavich learnt how Roman had persuaded Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich to seize Kiev, he informed Vsevolod III Yuryevich.[2] Fearing retribution, Roman rode to the Poles where he was wounded in battle; he therefore asked Ryurik Rostislavich for clemency.[2] Metropolitan Nikifor reconciled the two princes, and Ryurik Rostislavich gave Roman the town of Polonyy (southwest of Kamianets) and a district on the river Ros’.[2]
     "In the autumn of 1196 Roman ordered his lieutenants to use Polonyy as their base for raiding the domains belonging to his father-in-law's brother (Prince David Rostislavich of Smolensk) and son (Prince Rostislav Rurikovich of Torchesk).[2] Ryurik Rostislavich retaliated by sending his nephew, Prince Mstislav Mstislavich of Trepol to Vladimir Yaroslavich of Halych instructing him to join Mstislav Mstislavich in attacking Roman's lands.[2] Accordingly, Vladimir Yaroslavich and Mstislav Mstislavich razed Roman's district around Peremil, while Rostislav Ryurikovich and his force attacked Roman's district near Kamianets.[2] At about that time, Roman began repudiating his wife, Ryurik Rostislavich's daughter, and threatening to confine her to a monastery.[2]
Prince of Halych and Volodymyr-in-Volhynia
     "In 1198 (or 1199)[1] Vladimir II Yaroslavich of Halych died, and his death created a political vacuum that a number of claimants were eager to fill.[2] Ryurik Rostislavich could now claim that, after the dynasty of Halych became defunct, the territory reverted to the jurisdiction of the prince of Kyiv; the princes of the two branches of the Olgovichi (the princes of Chernigov) could argue that their marriage ties with the defunct dynasty gave them the right to rule Halych; and the Hungarians had already made a bid for the domain ten years earlier.[2] The Galicians asked Ryurik Rostislavich for his son Rostislav Ryurikovich, but Roman rode to Duke Leszek I of Poland (1194–1227), promising to be at his beck and call if the Polish ruler helped him to win Halych.[2] When the citizens refused to welcome Roman, Duke Leszek I besieged the town, and after capturing it, he forced the townspeople to accept Roman as prince.[2] Roman promised to be subservient to the duke of Poland and to live in peace with his new subjects.[2]
     "Roman turned his attention to the Cumans, who were threatening Byzantine interests in the Balkan Peninsula, and agreed to come to the assistance of Emperor Alexios III Angelos (1195–1203) and a severe blow was administered to the nomads.[5] In 1200, he married Anna, a Byzantine princess, a relative of Emperor Isaac II Angelos.[5] The relation with Byzantium helped to stabilize Galicia's relations with the Russian population of the Lower Dniester and the Lower Danube.[7]
     "Shortly afterwards, Roman began wreaking havoc on domains belonging to Ryurik Rostislavich and other princes.[2] In 1201, Ryurik Rostislavich summoned the Olgovichi to campaign against Roman.[2] Roman pre-empted their attack by rallying the troops of his principality.[2] The Monomashichi and the Black Caps also joined him.[2] The Kievans opened the gates of the podol’ to Roman.[2] He forced Ryurik Rostislavich and the Olgovichi to capitulate; he gave Kiev, with the consent of Vsevolod III Yuryevich, to Prince Ingvar Yaroslavich of Lutsk.[2] However, Ryurik Rostislavich and the Olgovichi re-captured Kiev already on 2 January 1203.[2]
     "Roman asked Vsevolod III Yuryevich to be pacified with the Olgovichi, and after he had concluded peace with them, he marched against Ryurik Rostislavich in Ovruch on 16 February 1203.[2] Ryurik Rostislavich submitted to Roman and Vsevolod III Yuryevich, and promised to sever relations with the Olgovichi and the Cumans.[2] After that, Roman also advised him to ask Vsevolod III Yuryevich to reinstate him in Kiev and promised to support his request.[2] Consequently, Vsevolod III Yuryevich forgave Ryurik Rostislavich and reappointed him to the town.[2]
     "That winter Ryurik Rostislavich, Roman and other princes attacked the Cumans and took many captives.[2] After the expedition, they met at Trypillia to allocate domains in accordance with the services that each had rendered in the defense of Rus’.[2] But they quarreled, and Roman seized Ryurik Rostislavich, sent him to Kiev, and had him tonsured as a monk.[2] He also forced Ryurik Rostislavich's wife and daughter (his own wife whom he had repudiated) to become nuns; and he took Ryurik Rostislavich's sons (Rostislav and Vladimir Rurikovich) with him to Halych.[2]
     "Meanwhile, the relations between Roman and Duke Leszek I of Poland deteriorated for both religious and personal reasons.[5] Leszek I was a devout Roman Catholic and it was probably at his suggestion that Pope Innocent III sent his envoys to Roman in 1204, urging him to accept Roman Catholicism and promising to place him under the protection of St Peter’s sword.[5] Roman’s answer, as recorded in the Radziwill chronicle, was characteristic enough: pointing to his own sword he asked the envoys, “Is the Pope’s sword similar to mine? So long as I carry mine, I need no other.”[5]
     "Duke Leszek I, supported by his brother Duke Konrad I of Masovia, undertook a sudden campaign against Roman.[5] The latter was caught unaware and killed in the first battle[5] at Zawichost.[1]
     "According to another version, Roman wanted to expand his realm at the expense of Poland and died in an ambush while entering Polish territory.[8]
Marriage and children
1. Predslava Rurikovna, a daughter of Grand Prince Ryurik Rostislavich of Kiev and his wife, Anna Yuryevna of Turov[1]
** Fedora Romanovna (?–after 1200), wife of Vasilko Vladimirovich of Halych;[1]
** Elena Romanovna[2] (or Maria Romanovna) (?–after 1241), wife of Prince Mikhail Vsevolodovich of Chernigov[1]
** (?) Salomea Romanovna (?–before 1220), wife of Duke Swantopolk I of Pommerellen,[1] her mother is uncertain;[9]
2. (1197/1200): Anna-Euphrosine, a relative of Emperor Isaac II Angelos[1]
** King Daniel Romanovich of Halych (1201/1202–1264)[1]
** King Vasylko Romanovich of Halych (1203/1204–1269)[1]
See also
** List of Russian rulers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_monarchs
** List of Ukrainian rulers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ukrainian_rulers
** List of people known as The Great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_known_as_%22the_Great%22
Footnotes
1. Charles Cawley (2008-05-19). "Russia, Rurikids – Chapter 3: Princes of Galich C. Princes of Volynia, Princes and Kings of Galich". Medieval Lands. Foundation of Medieval Genealogy. Retrieved 2009-12-26.
2. Dimnik, Martin. The Dynasty of Chernigov - 1146-1246.[page needed]
3. Roman Senkus (Managing Editor) (2001). "Roman Mstyslavych [Mstyslavy?] (Romanko)". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Retrieved 2009-12-26.
4. Subtelny, Orest. Ukraine: A History.[page needed]
5. Vernadsky, George. Kievan Russia.[page needed]
6. Roman Senkus (Managing Editor) (2001). "Romanovych dynasty [Romanovy?]". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Retrieved 2009-12-26.
7. Alexander V. Maiorov, The Alliance between Byzantium and Rus’ Before the Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204,Russian History, Volume 42, Issue 3, pages 272 – 303. Publication Year : 2015
8. This desire to extend the boundaries of an already extensive realm proved to be the cause of his undoing. In 1205, while crossing into Polish territory, Roman was killed in an ambush. Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: a history, University of Toronto Press, 2000, p. 61.
9. Monomakh branch (Volhynia) at Izbornik
Sources
** Dimnik, Martin: The Dynasty of Chernigov - 1146-1246; Cambridge University Press, 2003, Cambridge; ISBN 978-0-521-03981-9.
** Subtelny, Orest: Ukraine: A History; University of Toronto Press, 2000, Toronto, Buffalo & London; ISBN 0-8020-8390-0
** Vernadsky, George: Kievan Russia; Yale University Press, 1948, New Haven and London; ISBN 0-300-01647-6."¹¹ He was Prince of Novgorod between 1168 and 1170.^3,11 He was Prince of Vladimir-Volynsk (Vladimir-in-Volhynia) between 1170 and 1199.^3,11 He was Prince of Halych in 1189.¹¹ He was Prince of Galitzia between 1199 and 1205.³ He was Prince of Kiev between 1203 and 1205.³

     Katalin (?) of Hungary was born circa 1229.¹
Katalin (?) of Hungary died in 1242.¹

     Leo Danilowitsch (?) King of Halicz was born circa 1228.^2,1 He married Constance/Konstancia (?) of Hungary, daughter of Bela IV (?) King of Hungary and Croatia and Marie Laskarina of Nicaea, Queen of Hungary & Croatia, between 1251 and 1252
; Genealogy.EU (Arpad 2 page) calls him "King Lev of Halicz", but (Rurik 9 page) calls him "King Lev of Galitzia."^2,3,1
Leo Danilowitsch (?) King of Halicz died in 1301.^2,1
      ; Leo van de Pas cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag Marburg., Detlev Schwennicke, Editor, Reference: II 136.¹

; Lev, King of Galitzia (1269-1301), *ca 1228, +1301; m.1251/52 Konstancia of Hungary.² As of between 1269 and 1301, Leo Danilowitsch (?) King of Halicz was also known as Lev (?) King of Galitzia.^2,1

     Ilona/Jolante/Helene (?) of Hungary was born circa 1244 at Esztergom, Esztergomi járás, Komárom-Esztergom, Hungary.^1,3,4 She married Boleslaw V "the Pious" (?) Pr of Kalisch, Gnesen and of Great Poland, son of Wladyslaw Odonicz (?) Duke of Poland and Jadwiga (?), between 1256 and 1257.^2,5,6,3,4

Ilona/Jolante/Helene (?) of Hungary died on 6 March 1298 at Gniezno, Wielkopolskie, Poland (now); Genealogy.EU (Piast 3 page) says d. after 1303; Genealogics says d. 6 Mar 1298; Med Lands says d. 16/17 June after 1303.^1,2,3,4
      ; Per Genealogics:
     “Helene (Jolenta) was born about 1244, daughter of Béla IV, king of Hungary, and Maria Laskarina. As a young girl Helene was sent to Poland to be tutored under the supervision of her sister Kunigunde, who was married to Boleslaw V, duke of Poland. There she was encouraged to marry Boleslaw 'the Pious', duke of Kalisz and Poland, son of Wladislaw Odonicz, duke of Poland, and his wife Jadwiga. This she did about 1257, and they had three daughters of whom two, Jadwiga and Elisabeth, would have progeny.
     “Helene was deeply loved by her husband and by her people, especially the poor. With Boleslaw she founded several religious institutions and performed many works of charity.
     “After Boleslaw died in 1279, Helene and Kunigunde, along with Helene's daughter Anna, retired to the Poor Clare convent that Kunigunde had founded in Sandez (Nowy Sacz) in Southern Poland. Later in life, she moved to a convent she had founded in Gniezno in central-western Poland and became the abbess there. She died there on 6 March 1298.
     “Helene was declared a candidate for sainthood. She was beatified on 14 June 1827 by Pope Leo XII.”.³

Reference: Genealogics cites: Europäische Stammtafeln, Band II, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von. 105.³

; This is the same person as:
”Yolanda of Poland” at Wikipedia and as
”Jolenta Helena” at Wikipedia (It.)^7,8

; Per Med Lands:
     "JOLÁN [Helena] ([1238/44]-16/17 Jun after 1303). The Annales Cracovienses Compilati record the marriage in 1259 of "dux Boleslaus Polanorum" and "Iohelam filiam regis Hungarie"[955]. She was beatified 26 Sep 1827.
     "m (1250) BOLES?AW of Poland, son of W?ADYS?AW Prince of Greater Poland & his wife Hedwig [von Pommerellen] (after 1221-13 Apr 1279). He succeeded in 1247 as BOLES?AW "Pobo?ny/the Pious" Prince of Kalisch, until 1249 and 1253. He was Prince of Gnesen from 1249/50, and Prince of Greater Poland 1257."
Med Lands cites: [955] Annales Cracovienses Compilati 1259, MGH SS XIX, p. 600.⁴

; Per Med Lands:
     "BOLES?AW (after 1221-13 Apr 1279). The Chronica principum Polonie name "Boleslaum ducem Kalisiensem et Primsil ducem Poznaniensem" as the two sons of "Wladislaus", son of "Odo el Otto Gneznensis et Poznaniensis dux"[360]. "Ludezlaus…dux Polonie" donated property "villam meam…Crozno" to the Templar Knights with the consent of "uxoris mee Hedewigis et filiorum meorum Primizlai et Bolezlai" by charter dated 1233[361]. "Premisl et Boleslaus…Duces Majoris Polonie" confirmed the rights of the monastery of Lubyn by charter dated 30 Apr 1242[362]. He succeeded in 1247 as BOLES?AW "Pobo?ny/the Pious" Prince of Kalisch, until 1249 and 1253. Prince of Gnesen 1249/50 and Prince of Greater Poland 1257. The Annales Cracovienses Compilati record the deaths in 1279 of "Boleslaus dux maioris Polonie, Boleslaus dux Cracowie"[363]. The Annales Polonorum record the death "1279 VII Id Apr" of "Bolezlaus Polonie qui habebat uxorem Ioheleth, filiam Bele regis Ungarorum"[364]. Nun at St Clara, Gnesen.
     "m (1256) JOLÁN [Helena] of Hungary, daughter of BÉLA IV King of Hungary & Maria Laskarina of Nikaia ([1238/44]-16/17 Jun after 1303). The Annales Cracovienses Compilati record the marriage in 1259 of "dux Boleslaus Polanorum" and "Iohelam filiam regis Hungarie"[365]. She was beatified 26 Sep 1827."
Med Lands cites:

; Per Genealogy.EU (Piast 2): "C2. Boleslaw V "the Pious", Pr of Kalisch, Gnesen and of Great Poland (1243-79), *after 1221, +1279; m.1256 Jolante=Helene of Hungary (*1244 +after 1303)”


Per Genealogy.EU (Arpad 2): “G7. Jolán, *1244, +6.3.1298; m.1250/56 Prince Boleslav of Great Poland (*after 1221 +1279)”.^2,9

     Boleslaw V "the Pious" (?) Pr of Kalisch, Gnesen and of Great Poland was born after 1221.^1,2,3 He married Ilona/Jolante/Helene (?) of Hungary, daughter of Bela IV (?) King of Hungary and Croatia and Marie Laskarina of Nicaea, Queen of Hungary & Croatia, between 1256 and 1257.^1,2,3,7,8

Boleslaw V "the Pious" (?) Pr of Kalisch, Gnesen and of Great Poland died on 7 April 1279; Med Lands says d. 13 Apr 1279; Genealogics says d. 7 Apr 1279.^1,2,3
      ; Per Med Lands:
     "JOLÁN [Helena] ([1238/44]-16/17 Jun after 1303). The Annales Cracovienses Compilati record the marriage in 1259 of "dux Boleslaus Polanorum" and "Iohelam filiam regis Hungarie"[955]. She was beatified 26 Sep 1827.
     "m (1250) BOLES?AW of Poland, son of W?ADYS?AW Prince of Greater Poland & his wife Hedwig [von Pommerellen] (after 1221-13 Apr 1279). He succeeded in 1247 as BOLES?AW "Pobo?ny/the Pious" Prince of Kalisch, until 1249 and 1253. He was Prince of Gnesen from 1249/50, and Prince of Greater Poland 1257."
Med Lands cites: [955] Annales Cracovienses Compilati 1259, MGH SS XIX, p. 600.⁸

Reference: Genealogics cites:

; Per Genealogics:
     “Boleslaw was born between 1221 and 1227, the son of Wladislaw Odonicz, duke of Poland and Jadwiga of Pomerania, daughter of Msciwoj I, duke of Eastern Pomerania. In 1257 he married Helene (Jolenta) of Hungary, daughter of Béla IV, king of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. They had three daughters of whom two, Jadwiga and Elisabeth, would have progeny. Their daughter Anna became a nun in Gniezno.
     “From 1239 to 1247 Boleslaw was duke of Greater Poland together with his brother Przemyslaw I. From 1247 to 1249 he was duke of Kalisz, and from 1249 to his deposition in 1250 he was duke of Gniezno. Reinstated in 1253, he became duke of Kalisz and Gniezno, and from 1257 to 1277 duke of Greater Poland.
     “On 16 August 1264 Boleslaw granted the first written privilege to the Jews of Greater Poland (the Privilege of Boleslaw of Kalisz). It regulated the judicial authority over the Jewish population, and Jewish credit and trading activity. The comparatively liberal statute served as a basis for Jewish privileges in Poland until 1795.
     “From 1277 Boleslaw was again duke of Kalisz and Gniezno. He died on 7 April 1279.”.²

; This is the same person as:
”Boles?aw the Pious” at Wikipedia and as
”Boles?aw Pobo?ny” at Wikipedia (Pl.)^9,10

; Per Med Lands:
     "BOLES?AW (after 1221-13 Apr 1279). The Chronica principum Polonie name "Boleslaum ducem Kalisiensem et Primsil ducem Poznaniensem" as the two sons of "Wladislaus", son of "Odo el Otto Gneznensis et Poznaniensis dux"[360]. "Ludezlaus…dux Polonie" donated property "villam meam…Crozno" to the Templar Knights with the consent of "uxoris mee Hedewigis et filiorum meorum Primizlai et Bolezlai" by charter dated 1233[361]. "Premisl et Boleslaus…Duces Majoris Polonie" confirmed the rights of the monastery of Lubyn by charter dated 30 Apr 1242[362]. He succeeded in 1247 as BOLES?AW "Pobo?ny/the Pious" Prince of Kalisch, until 1249 and 1253. Prince of Gnesen 1249/50 and Prince of Greater Poland 1257. The Annales Cracovienses Compilati record the deaths in 1279 of "Boleslaus dux maioris Polonie, Boleslaus dux Cracowie"[363]. The Annales Polonorum record the death "1279 VII Id Apr" of "Bolezlaus Polonie qui habebat uxorem Ioheleth, filiam Bele regis Ungarorum"[364]. Nun at St Clara, Gnesen.
     "m (1256) JOLÁN [Helena] of Hungary, daughter of BÉLA IV King of Hungary & Maria Laskarina of Nikaia ([1238/44]-16/17 Jun after 1303). The Annales Cracovienses Compilati record the marriage in 1259 of "dux Boleslaus Polanorum" and "Iohelam filiam regis Hungarie"[365]. She was beatified 26 Sep 1827."
Med Lands cites:

; Per Genealogy.EU (Piast 2): "C2. Boleslaw V "the Pious", Pr of Kalisch, Gnesen and of Great Poland (1243-79), *after 1221, +1279; m.1256 Jolante=Helene of Hungary (*1244 +after 1303)”


Per Genealogy.EU (Arpad 2): “G7. Jolán, *1244, +6.3.1298; m.1250/56 Prince Boleslav of Great Poland (*after 1221 +1279)”.^1,11 He was Duke of Pozna? and Gniezno between 1239 and 1247.⁹ He was Duke of Kalisz between 1244 and 1249.⁹ He was Duke of Greater Poland between 1257 and 1279.⁹

     Jadwiga (?) of Poland was born in 1266.¹ She married Wladislaw IV "Lokietek" (?) King of Poland, son of Kazimierz I (?) Prince of Kujawien, Leczyca and Sieradz and Euphrosyne (?) of Oppeln, in January 1293
; Genealogy.EU (Piast 2 page) says m. ca 1279; Leo van de Pas says m. Jan 1293.^1,5,6
Jadwiga (?) of Poland died in 1339.¹

     Katalin (?) of Hungary was born circa 1256.¹ She married Stepan IV Dragutin (?) King of Serbia, son of Saint Stepan Uros I "the Great" (?) King of Raska (Serbia) and Helene de Courtenay, before 1271.^5,1

Katalin (?) of Hungary died after 1314.¹

     Stepan IV Dragutin (?) King of Serbia married Katalin (?) of Hungary, daughter of Stephen/István V (?) King of Hungary & Croatia, Duke of Styria and Erzsébet (?) of the Kumans, Queen Consort & Regent of Hungary, before 1271.^1,2

Stepan IV Dragutin (?) King of Serbia died in March 1316; died as a monk.^1,3
     He was Ban of Macva-Bosnia.¹

; Stephan Dragutin was older son of Stephan Urosh I and was deposed by his younger brother, Stephan Milutin (officially Stephan Urosh II Milutin), because he was incompetent to rule after falling from horse. (Any way, that was official reason, Milutin was quite efficient in removing competitors).
I do not have any reference with me (I am on work and my books are still unpacked). Preety good genealogy you have on Marek's site: http://genealogy.euweb.cz/balkan/balkan5.html
Best regards, Milun Jevremovic.⁴

; According to the Search Spaniel(Google) bio of Stefan Dragutin augmented by the Serbian Unity Congress Sebian History site, in 1282 He broke his leg while hunting, subsequently fell ill and having deposed his father Stefan Uros I in 1276 took this as a sign of God`s displeasure and voluntarily abdicated the throne to Stefan Milutin Uros II, his younger brother. He only became a monk after his mother Jelena d` Anjou died in 1314. He married Katarina, a daughter of Stefan V of Hungary and Eryzebet of the Kumans and had four children, a daughter Jelislaveta ( Elizabeth) who married Stjefan II Kotromanic , Ban of Bosnia, another daughter who was married in 1300, Stefan Ladislaus II who succeeded his uncle Stefan Milutin Uros II, who beat and imprisoned him when He attempted to succeed to his father Stefan Dragutin`s lands when Dragutin died in March 1316 and a 2nd son became a monk.
Sincerely, James W Cummings, Dixmont, Maine USA.³


He was King of Serbia between 1276 and 1282.¹

     Unknown (?) of Hungary married Sventislav Jakab(?) (?) Tsar of Bulgaria.¹

      ; a daughter; m.Sventislav Jakab(?), Tsar of Bulgaria.¹

     Elizabeth/Erzsébet (?) of Hungary was born in 1255.^1,6 She married Záviš (?) von Rosenberg zu Falkenstein und Skalitz in 1287
;
Her 1st husband; his 2nd or 3rd wife.^1,2,7,6 Elizabeth/Erzsébet (?) of Hungary married Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia, son of Saint Stepan Uros I "the Great" (?) King of Raska (Serbia) and Helene de Courtenay, circa 1295
;
His 3rd wife, her 2nd husband.^8,2,6 Elizabeth/Erzsébet (?) of Hungary and Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia were divorced between 1298 and 1299; repudiated.^8,2,6
Elizabeth/Erzsébet (?) of Hungary died between 1323 and 1326.¹
     Reference: Genealogics cites:

; Per Wikipedia:
     "Elizabeth of Hungary the widow (Hungarian: Erzsébet, Serbian: ??????????/Jelisaveta; c. 1255–1313) was one of the daughters of King Stephen V of Hungary and his wife Elizabeth the Cuman.[1][2] She was a member of the House of Arpad and later became Queen consort of Serbia by her marriage to Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia.[citation needed]
Family
     "Elizabeth was the older one of six children, being born sometime in the 1260s. Elizabeth's mother had come from the Cumans, who followed the Shamanist religion, and was converted to Christianity in childhood. Although her parents took baptism in 1250s, they were considered Pagans by some contemporary Christians of Europe. She had been obliged to convert to the Roman Catholic faith to marry Elizabeth's father, Stephen.
Life
First marriage
     "Elizabeth married 4 May 1288 [dubious – discuss] to Záviš, Lord of Falkenstejn. Elizabeth was an attractive bride, being the older daughter of the King of Hungary. Elizabeth's brother, Ladislaus IV of Hungary agreed to the marriage. Záviš was quite wealthy; his previous wife had been Kunigunda of Slavonia, Dowager Queen of Bohemia who died and left him an inheritance. Záviš also acted as regent for his stepson, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia.
     "After the wedding, the couple retired to Svojanov. In December 1288, Elizabeth gave birth to a son, although nothing further is mentioned of the child. Záviš was still however only interested in his step-son, Wenceslaus.
     "Many people at the Prague court hated Záviš, including Wenceslaus' wife, Judith of Habsburg. Eventually, Záviš was captured and imprisoned. During this time, Elizabeth left the family home with her son and went to stay at the court of her sister, Maria and her brother-in-law, Charles II of Naples. Záviš was executed 24 August 1290.
Second marriage
     "Soon after the death of her husband, Elisabeth became a nun but she escaped.[3]
     "Elizabeth travelled to Serbia to visit her sister Catherine. Elizabeth was seduced there by Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia (Catherine's brother-in-law). Stefan Uroš divorced his first wife, Helena Doukaina Angelina, and married Elizabeth, though he bypassed church rules in order to marry her. They could not marry because Elizabeth's sister Catherine was married to Stefan Uroš' brother, Stephen Dragutin of Serbia. By the rules of the Serbian Orthodox Church Stefan Uroš and Elizabeth were unable to marry because there was a union between their siblings - while the Roman Catholic Church had (under Pope Innocentius III) specifically decreed that affinity does not produce further affinity and thus, marriages of siblings were immaterial to canonical obstacles.
     "Some[4] believe that Elizabeth was the mother of Anna Neda, one of Stefan Uroš' daughters.
     "The marriage did not last long; and as a result of increasing pressure from the Church, Stefan Uroš was forced to dissolve his marriage to Elizabeth, who was then sent back to her native country of Hungary, while Stefan Uroš married Anna Terter of Bulgaria. Elizabeth died in 1313.
References
1. Arpad
2. Genealogics
3. Cawley, Charles, HUNGARY KINGS, Medieval Lands, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,[self-published source][better source needed]: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HUNGARY.htm#ElisabethM1RosenbergM2StefanUrosIISerbia
4. Cawley, Charles, SERBIA, Medieval Lands, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,[self-published source][better source needed]: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SERBIA.htm#Milutindied1321B
5. Ancestors of Elisabeth of Hungary.⁹

; Per Med Lands:
     "ERSZÉBET (1255-[1313/26]). She became a nun after the death of her first husband, but escaped. The Chronica Pragensis (Chronicon Francisci) records that "quondam Baronem…Zauissium" married "sororem Regis Ungariæ" after the death of his wife, the widow of Otakar P?emysl II King of Bohemia[975]. Pachymeres records the marriage of "sororem defunctæ Augustæ, matris Augusti iunioris…filia regis Ungariæ…germanam tertiam" and the king of Serbia, despite the couple's consanguinity (due to his brother already being married to her sister)[976].
     "m firstly (1287) as his third wife, ZAVIŠ von Rosenberg zu Skalitz und Falkenstein, son of BUDIWOJ von Krumau [Rosenberg] & his wife Perchta von Skalitz (-beheaded Schloß Frauenberg 24 Aug 1290, bur Hohenfurt).
     "m secondly ([1295], repudiated [1298/99]) as his third wife, STEFAN UROŠ II MILUTIN King of Serbia, son of STEFAN UROŠ I King of Serbia & his wife Jelena --- ([1253]-Castle Nerodimlja, Amselfeld 29 Oct 1321, bur Sardika [Sofija])."
Med Lands cites:

     Záviš (?) von Rosenberg zu Falkenstein und Skalitz was born circa 1250.⁴ He married Kunigunda Rostislavna (?) of Halicz, daughter of Rostislav Mikhailovich (?) Grand Duke of Kiev, Prince of Novgorod, Galitzia, Lutsk and Chernigov, Tsar of Bulgaria and Anna/Agnes (?) of Hungary, on 2 June 1284 at Prague, Okres Praha, Bohemia, Czech Republic (now),
;
Her 2nd husband; his 1st or 2nd wife.^5,4,6,7,8 Záviš (?) von Rosenberg zu Falkenstein und Skalitz married Elizabeth/Erzsébet (?) of Hungary, daughter of Stephen/István V (?) King of Hungary & Croatia, Duke of Styria and Erzsébet (?) of the Kumans, Queen Consort & Regent of Hungary, in 1287
;
Her 1st husband; his 2nd or 3rd wife.^1,9,4,2
Záviš (?) von Rosenberg zu Falkenstein und Skalitz died on 24 August 1290 at Frauenberg; beheaded in front of the castle Hluboká nad Vltavou (Frauenberg.)^1,5,4
     ; Per Med Lands:
     "KUNIGUNDA [Kunguta] Rostislavna (1245-9 Sep 1285, bur Prague Erlöserkirche). The Canonicorum Pragensium Continuationes Cosmæ records the marriage "VIII Kal Nov 1261" of "Cunegundem filiam Hostislai ducis Bulgarorum" and the king "in castello Ungarias…Possen"[347]. The Chronica Pragensis (Chronicon Francisci) records the second marriage of "Rex Przsemysl" and "Chungundam, Regis de Mazouia filiam"[348]. The Altahenses Annales record the marriage in 1261 of "Otaker rex" and "Chunigundem filiam Regis Ruscie, neptem Bele regis Ungarie ex filia"[349].
     "m firstly (Pressburg 25 Oct 1261) as his second wife, OTAKAR P?EMYSL II King of Bohemia, son of WENZEL I King of Bohemia & his wife Kunigunde von Hohenstaufen (1233-killed in battle Dürnkrut 26 Aug 1278, bur Znaim Minoriten).
     "m secondly (Prague 2 Jun 1284) as his second wife, ZAVIŠ von Rosenberg zu Skalitz und Falkenstein, son of BUDIWOJ von Krumau [Rosenberg] & his wife Perchta von Skalitz (-beheaded Schloß Frauenberg 24 Aug 1290, bur Hohenfurt)."
Med Lands cites:

; Per Med Lands: "m firstly (1287) as his third wife, ZAVIŠ von Rosenberg zu Skalitz und Falkenstein, son of BUDIWOJ von Krumau [Rosenberg] & his wife Perchta von Skalitz (-beheaded Schloß Frauenberg 24 Aug 1290, bur Hohenfurt)."²

Reference: Genealogics cites: Genealogisches Handbuch erloschener böhmischer Herrenstandsfamilien Neustadt an der Aisch, 1973, Procházka, Roman Freiherr von. 173.⁴

; Per Genealogics: "Zavis z Falkenstejna, burgrave of Falkstejna and Rozmberka, was one of the most significant members of the Krumlov line of the Czech group of aristocratic families known as the Vitkovci (Witigonen) who descended from Vitico I, Burggraf von Glatz (d.1194), and between them owned a considerable part of south Bohemia. This greatly displeased Przemysl Ottokar II, king of Bohemia, so he established the town of Ceske Budejovice and the monastery Zlata Koruna in the middle of the Vitkovci estates. Zavis began to lead a revolt of the aristocracy. When Przemysl Ottokar II died, Zavis married Ottokar's widow Kunigunde of Halicz, thereby becoming the tutor of Wenceslas II, the future king of Bohemia and Poland. He was later accused of an effort to usurp the royal throne, and was executed in front of the castle Hluboká nad Vltavou (Frauenberg) on 24 August 1290."⁴ Záviš (?) von Rosenberg zu Falkenstein und Skalitz was also known as Zavish von Falkenstein und Rosenberg.⁵ Záviš (?) von Rosenberg zu Falkenstein und Skalitz was also known as Zavis z Falkenstejna Burggraf of Falkstejna and Rozmberka.⁴

; Per Wikipedia:
     "Zavis of Falkenstein (Czech: Záviš z Falkenštejna; c.?1250 – 24 August 1290), a member of the Vítkovci dynasty, was a Bohemian noble and opponent of King Ottokar II.
Biography
     "Zavis was a scion of the Vítkovci lords of Krumlov, his father Budiwoj (d. after 1272) had married the Austrian noblewoman Perchta of Falkenstein. He entered the service of his mother's family as burgrave of Falkenstein Castle (in present-day Hofkirchen).
     "Like many other Bohemian nobles he was concerned over the rise of the P?emyslid prince Ottokar II, son and heir of King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, who in 1251 was installed as Austrian duke. Bohemian king from 1253, Ottokar founded the royal city of Bud?jovice (Budweis) and Zlatá Koruna Abbey to hinder further expansion of the Vítkovci domains; he also denied dynasty's entitlement to the Lordship of Velešín. However, his position was undermined when he entered into a fierce conflict with Count Rudolf of Habsburg, elected King of the Romans in 1273. Rudolf reclaimed the Austrian duchy and numerous other 'alienated' territories; when in 1276 he imposed an Imperial ban on Ottokar, several Bohemian nobles around Zavis took the occasion for open revolt.
     "The insurgents pillaged Bud?jovice and Zlatá Koruna; Ottokar, facing revolt, had to enter into negotiations with Rudolf. He was forced to waive all acquisitions and retired to his Bohemian and Moravian hereditary lands. Although the P?emyslid king could suppress the Bohemian uprising with decisive action and forced Zavis to flee, Rudolf also demanded the restoration of the Vítkovci estates. The struggle continued until Ottokar was finally defeated by Rudolf's forces and killed in the 1278 Battle on the Marchfeld.
     "Upon the king's death, the Bohemian lands were ruled by the Ascanian margrave Otto of Brandenburg, acting as regent and guardian of Ottokar's minor son Wenceslaus II. Soon, however, new tensions arose with queen dowager Kunigunda and Margrave Otto had mother and son imprisoned at Bezd?z Castle. Kunigunda was able to escape to Opava, where she allied with Zavis of Falkenstein, her late husband's enemy. She appointed him burgrave of Hradec and both possibly also began an affair. In turn, the margrave removed the heir to the throne out of the country to Spandau in Brandenburg where he was arrested until 1282.
     "As conditions in the princeless Bohemian kingdom worsened, the local nobles urged for the return of Wenceslaus II. Finally, Otto of Brandenburg retired, not without collecting a considerable ransom and the confirmation of the Ascanian possessions in Upper Lusatia. Wenceslaus was released from custody and returned to Prague in 1283.
     "Two years later, in 1285, Wenceslaus married Judith of Habsburg, daughter of King Rudolf. At the same time Zavis officially appeared as second husband of dowager queen Kunigunda. Once Otto of Brandenburg was expelled, he took his place at the head of local nobles along with Bishop Tobias Bechun of Prague, gained strong influence over the young king and manned important offices with his relatives and fellows.[1] Given the situation at the Bohemian court, Rudolf took his daughter back to Austria after the wedding ceremony.
     "Zavis nepotism provoked the discontent of the Bohemian nobility and also the mistrust of Rudolf of Habsburg, after Wenceslaus refused to support the succession of his brother-in-law Albert, presumably under Zavis' influence. When Kunigunda died only a few months later in September 1285, Zavis proceeded to the court of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary, whose sister Elizabeth he married in 1287.
     "The couple took residence at Svojanov Castle and Zavis again tried to gain influence on Bohemian politics. In turn, Rudolf of Habsburg finally guided his daughter Judith to the Prague throne and urged for measures taken against the usurpator. The court requested the return of late Kunigunda's royal estates held by Zavis. When he refused he was accused of high treason and arrested in 1289. A revolt by his brothers failed and Zavis was executed on 24 August 1290 at Hluboká Castle. He was buried in the Vyšší Brod Monastery.[2]
In art
     "He became the subject of Josef Richard Rozkošný's opera Záviš z Falkenštejna in 1877.
References
1. The New Cambridge Medieval History: c. 1198-c. 1300 p763 ed. David Abulafia, Rosamond McKitterick - 1999 "In 1284 the Brandenburg regent was expelled and his place taken by local nobles, headed by the second husband of Ottokar's widow, Zavis of Falkenstein, and Bishop Tobias Bechun of Prague.
2. Proschko, Franz Isidor (1858). Das Cistercienser-Stift Hohenfurth in Böhmen (in German). p. 10."³

     Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia was born circa 1253.¹ He married Helene Angelina, daughter of Joannes Dukas Angelos Sebastokrator in Neopatros, between 1273 and 1276
; his 1st wife.¹ Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia and Helene Angelina were divorced in 1283; repudiated.¹ Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia married Ana (?) of Bulgaria, daughter of George Terter (?) Tsar of Bulgaria, in 1284
; his 2nd wife.¹ Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia and Ana (?) of Bulgaria were divorced circa 1294; repudiated.¹ Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia married Elizabeth/Erzsébet (?) of Hungary, daughter of Stephen/István V (?) King of Hungary & Croatia, Duke of Styria and Erzsébet (?) of the Kumans, Queen Consort & Regent of Hungary, circa 1295
;
His 3rd wife, her 2nd husband.^1,2,3 Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia and Elizabeth/Erzsébet (?) of Hungary were divorced between 1298 and 1299; repudiated.^1,2,3 Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia married Simonida Palaiologina, daughter of Andronikos II Palaiologos Emperor of Byzantinium, circa 1300
; his 4th wife.⁴
Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia died on 29 October 1321 at Castle Nerodimlja, Serbia.¹
      ; Stepan Uros II Milutin, King of Serbia (1282-1321), *ca 1253, +Castle Nerodimlja 29.10.1321, bur Sofia; 1m: 1273/76 (repudiated 1283) Helene Angelina, dau.of Joannes Dukas Angelos, Sebastokrator in Neopatros; 2m: 1284 (repudiated ca 1294) Ana, dau.of Tsar George Terter of Bulgaria; 3m: ca 1295 (repudiated 1298/9) Elizabeth of Hungary (*1255, +1313/26); 4m: ca 1300 Simonida Palaiologina (*1292/93, +after 1336.)¹ He was King of Serbia between 1282 and 1321.¹

     Helene Angelina married Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia, son of Saint Stepan Uros I "the Great" (?) King of Raska (Serbia) and Helene de Courtenay, between 1273 and 1276
; his 1st wife.¹ Helene Angelina and Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia were divorced in 1283; repudiated.¹
      ; Helene Angelina, dau.of Joannes Dukas Angelos, Sebastokrator in Neopatros.¹

     Ana (?) of Bulgaria married Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia, son of Saint Stepan Uros I "the Great" (?) King of Raska (Serbia) and Helene de Courtenay, in 1284
; his 2nd wife.¹ Ana (?) of Bulgaria and Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia were divorced circa 1294; repudiated.¹
      ; Ana, dau.of Tsar George Terter of Bulgaria.¹

     Simonida Palaiologina was born between 1292 and 1293.¹ She married Stepan Uros II Milutin (?) King of Serbia, son of Saint Stepan Uros I "the Great" (?) King of Raska (Serbia) and Helene de Courtenay, circa 1300
; his 4th wife.¹
Simonida Palaiologina died after 1336.¹

     András (?) Duke of Slavonia was born in 1268.¹
András (?) Duke of Slavonia died in 1278.¹

     Saint Margaret "the Younger" (?) was born after April 1242.^1,2
Saint Margaret "the Younger" (?) died on 18 January 1270; Catholic Enc. says s. 18 Jan 1271.^1,2
      ; Saint Margaret "the Younger", an Abbess, canonised 1943, *after IV.1242, +18.1.1270.¹

; Bl. Margaret of Hungary - Daughter of King Bela I of Hungary and his wife Marie Laskaris, born 1242; died 18 Jan., 1271. According to a vow which her parents made when Hungary was liberated from the Tatars that their next child should be dedicated to religion, Margaret, in 1245 entered the Dominican Convent of Veszprem. Invested with the habit at the age of four, she was transferred in her tenth year to the Convent of the Blessed Virgin founded by her parents on the Hasen Insel near Buda, the Margareten Insel near Budapest today, and where the ruins of the convent are still to be seen. Here Margaret passed all her life, which was consecrated to contemplation and penance, and was venerated as a saint during her lifetime. She strenuously opposed the plans of her father, who for political reasons wished to marry her to King Ottokar II of Bohemia. Margaret appears to have taken solemn vows when she was eighteen. All narratives call special attention to Margaret's sanctity and her spirit of earthly renunciation. Her whole life was one unbroken chain of devotional exercises and penance. She chastised herself unceasingly from childhood, wore hair garments, and an iron girdle round her waist, as well as shoes spiked with nails; she was frequently scourged, and performed the most menial work in the convent.

Shortly after her death, steps were taken for her canonization, and in 1271-1276 investigations referring to this were taken up; in 1275-1276 the process was introduced, but not completed. Not till 1640 was the process again taken up, and again it was not concluded. Attempts which were made in 1770 by Count Ignatz Batthyanyi were also fruitless; so that the canonization never took place, although Margaret was venerated as a saint shortly after her death; and Pius VI consented on 28 July, 1789, to her veneration as a saint. Pius VII raised her feast day to a festum duplex. The minutes of the proceedings of 1271-1272 record seventy-four miracles; and among those giving testimony were twenty-seven in whose favour the miracles had been wrought. These cases refer to the cure of illnesses, and one case of awakening from death. Margaret's remains were given to the Poor Clares when the Dominican Order was dissolved; they were first kept in Pozsony and later in Buda. After the order had been suppressed by Joseph II, in 1782, the relics were destroyed in 1789; but some portions are still preserved in Gran, Gyor, Pannonhalma. The feast day of the saint is 18 January. In art she is depicted with a lily and holding a book in her hand.

NEMETHY-FRAKNOI, Arpadhazi b. Margit tortenetehez (Budapest, 1885), being contributions on the history of Blessed Margaret of the House of Arpaden; DEMKO, Arpadhazi b. Margit elete (Budapest, 1895), a life of the saint. Further bibliographical particulars in Arpad and the Arpaden, edited by CSANKI (Budapest, 1908), 387-388; minutes of the proceedings of 1271-72, published in Monumenta Romana Episcopotus Vesprimiensis, I (Budapest, 1896).

A. ALDASY

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX
Copyright © 1910 by Robert Appleton Company
Online Edition Copyright © 2003 by Kevin Knight
Nihil Obstat, October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.²

     Béla (?) Duke of Slavonia, Croatia and Dalmatia was born in 1243.¹ He married Kunigunde (?) von Brandenburg, daughter of Otto III 'der Frome' von Brandenburg Markgraf von Brandenburg and Beatrix (?) of Bohemia, on 25 October 1264
;
Her 1st husband.^2,3,4
Béla (?) Duke of Slavonia, Croatia and Dalmatia died in 1269.¹
      ; Béla, Duke of Slavonia, Croatia and Dalmatia (1264-69), *Buda 1243, +1269; m.25.10.1264 Kunigunde of Brandenburg (+after 9.6.1292.)¹

     Kunigunde (?) von Brandenburg married Arnoud 'le Jeune' (?) de Julémont et de Mulrepas
;
Her 3rd husband.³ Kunigunde (?) von Brandenburg married Béla (?) Duke of Slavonia, Croatia and Dalmatia, son of Bela IV (?) King of Hungary and Croatia and Marie Laskarina of Nicaea, Queen of Hungary & Croatia, on 25 October 1264
;
Her 1st husband.^1,2,3 Kunigunde (?) von Brandenburg married Walram V (?) Duke von Limburg, son of Hendrik IV (?) Duke of Limburg, Graf von Berg, Sire de Montjoie and Irmengard von Berg Heiress of Berg, on 10 January 1278
;
His 2nd wife; her 2nd husband (Leo van de Pas only shows her 1st husband, Bela.)^8,1,9,3
Kunigunde (?) von Brandenburg died after 8 June 1292.^1,2
     Reference: Genealogics cites: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, 4 volumes, Marburg, 1953, 1975., W. K. Prinz von Isenburg, Reference: I 59.¹⁰

; Per Med Lands:
     "KUNIGUNDE von Brandenburg ([1247/52]-after 8 Jun 1292). The Canonicorum Pragensium Continuationes Cosmæ records the marriage "IV Kal Oct 1264" of "filiam Ottoni marchioni" and "filio regis nominee Belæ"[267]. The Historia Annorum 1264-1279 records the marriage in 1264 of "Bela frater Stephani regis Ungarie" and "filiam marchionis Brannburgensis", but does not name her[268]. The Altahenses Annales record the marriage "1262 in autumpno" of "filiam Ottonis marchionis de Brandenburch" and "Bele iuniore regi Ungarie"[269]. The Historia Annorum 1264-1279 records the marriage in 1264 of "Bela frater Stephani regis Ungarie" and "filiam marchionis Brannburgensis", but does not name her[270]. She is named in the Cronica Principum Saxonie which shows (in order) "Iohannem de Praga, Ottonem Magnum, Albertum, Ottonem, Conegundim, Mechtildim" as children of "Otto III" & his wife, specifying that Kunigund married "Bele filie Bele regis Ungarie, fratris beate Elisabet" in 1264, and also records her second marriage to "duci de Limburch"[271]. "Cunigundis olim ducissa Lymburgensis" ceded all her rights in the duchy of Limburg to "dominus Johannes, Lotharingiæ et Brabantiæ dux, consanguineus noster" by charter dated 18 Apr 1288[272]. Her third marriage is confirmed by a charter dated 8 Jun 1292 under which Jean Duke of Brabant received money on behalf of "noble dame la duchesse de Limbourg, seconde femme de feu le duc de Limbourg" and "son seingeur Arnoul le jovene de Julermont et de Mulrepas"[273].
     "m firstly (24/25 Oct 1264) BÉLA of Hungary Duke of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, son of BÉLA IV King of Hungary & his wife Maria Laskarina of Nikaia ([1245]-1269, bur Esztergom).
     "m secondly ([10 Jan 1278]) as his second wife, WALERAN IV Duke of Limburg, son of HENDRIK IV Duke of Limburg & his wife Irmgard von Berg (-24 Oct 1279).
     "m thirdly ARNOUD "le Jeune" de Julémont et de Mulrepas, son of ---. "
Med Lands cites:

; Kunigunde, +after 8.6.1292; 1m: 25.10.1264 Pr Duke Bela of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia (+1269); 2m: 10.1.1278 Duke Walram V of Limburg (+1279.)¹

     Otto III 'der Frome' von Brandenburg Markgraf von Brandenburg was born circa 1215; Genealogics says b. ca 1215; Med Lands says b. 1209/1216.^2,3 He married Beatrix (?) of Bohemia, daughter of Vaclav (Wenceslas) I (?) King of Bohemia and Kunigunde (?) von Hohenstaufen, before June 1243.^1,7,8,9,2,3

Otto III 'der Frome' von Brandenburg Markgraf von Brandenburg died on 9 October 1267 at Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg, Germany (now).^1,10,2,3
     EDV-23.

Reference: Genealogics cites: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, 4 volumes, Marburg, 1953, 1975., W. K. Prinz von Isenburg, Reference: I 59.²

; Per Genealogics:
     “Otto, known as 'der Fromme' (the Pious), was born about 1215, the younger son of Albrecht II, Markgraf von Brandenburg, and Mathilde, Markgräfin von der Nieder-Lausitz. From 1220 he ruled, first under a guardian, the margraviate of Brandenburg with his brother Johann until Johann's death in 1266, and alone until his own death in 1267.
     “The reign of the two Ascanian margraves was characterised by extensive land development toward the East, which took in the last parts of Teltow and Barnim, the Uckermark, the land of Stargard, the land of Lebus and the first parts east of the Oder in the Neumark. They were able to strengthen sustainably the political importance and position of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire, to the extent that in 1256 Otto was a candidate for selection as King of the Germans. They also founded several towns, and did a great deal for the development of the two founding cities Berlin and Cölln. They extended the Ascanian castle in Spandau into their preferred residence.
     “As both Otto and his two years older brother Johann were under age at the death of their father in 1220, Emperor Friedrich II transferred the feudal guardianship over Brandenburg to Archbishop Albrecht I of Magdeburg; the guardian of the two boys was Heinrich I, Fürst von Anhalt, the elder brother of Albrecht I, Herzog von Sachsen. As the sons of Bernhard III, Herzog von Sachsen, the brothers were the boys' paternal next of kin.
     “In 1221 their mother Mathilde purchased the feudal guardianship from the archbishop of Magdeburg, for 1900 Marks of Magdeburg silver, and then acted as joint regent for her sons with Heinrich I. When the archbishop of Magdeburg travelled to Emperor Friedrich II in Italy shortly thereafter, Albrecht I tried to take advantage of the situation to interfere in Brandenburg affairs, which led to a conflict with his brother Heinrich I. The conflict between the Saxon brothers prompted Mathilde's brother-in-law Heinrich I, Pfalzgraf am Rhein, to intervene. Friedrich II prevented an outbreak of hostilities by demanding that the Saxon brothers keep the peace.
     “Probably from the death of their mother in 1225 the brothers jointly exercised sovereignty over the march of Brandenburg; at that time Johann was probably aged twelve and Otto ten. In 1231 they were both knighted in the Brandenburg Neustadt - that year is also considered as the official start of their reign.
     “After the death in 1227 of Heinrich I, Pfalzgraf am Rhein, the brothers supported his nephew and heir, their brother-in-law Otto I 'das Kind', son of Wilhelm 'Longsword', Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, who was only able to prevail against the Hohenstaufen claims by force of arms. In 1229 a conflict arose with their former feudal guardian Archbishop Albrecht. Like their former adversaries and defenders they appeared in 1235 at the Diet at Mainz, where the peace of Mainz was pronounced.
     “In June 1243 Otto married Beatrix of Bohemia, daughter of Wenceslas I, king of Bohemia, and Kunigunde von Hohenstaufen. Of their six children, Otto V, Albrecht III and Mathilde would have progeny.
     “The joint rule of the margraves ended in 1258/60, when the margraviate was divided in accordance with the inheritance laws into the 'Otto' and 'Johann' lines. However a prudent allocation of government policy areas between them and their continued agreement on all issues of importance prevented the disintegration of the margraviate. The preparations for the reorganisation had probably already begun in 1250 after the final acquisition of Uckermark, but no later than 1255 after the marriage of Johann with his third wife Jutta von Sachsen.
     “After the clashes over Konrad IV von Hohenstaufen, son of Emperor Friedrich II, and Heinrich Raspe, Landgraf von Thüringen, over the throne of Germany, the two margraves in 1251 declared their recognition of Willem II, Graaf van Holland, as King of the Germans. In the election necessitated by Konrad IV's death in 1254 and his rival Willem's death in 1256, Alfonso X, king of Castile and León, was elected as King of the Germans; in the election the brothers for the first time exercised their right on behalf of the prince-electorate of Brandenburg. In 1256 Otto was one of the contenders for the kingship. Although he was not elected, his candidacy demonstrated the growing political importance of the margraviate founded in 1157 by the brothers' great grandfather Albrecht 'the Bear'. Their participation in the elections of the heads of the empire was seen as indispensable from the mid-13th century.
     “Together with his brother, Otto extended the area of the margraviate and built market towns or castle locations such as Spandau, Cölln, Berlin, Frankfurt a.d. Oder and Prenzlau into central locations or cities. The last parts of Barnim and the southern Uckermark up to the river Welse came to the march of Brandenburg between 1230 and 1245. On 20 June 1236 in the Treaty of Kremmen the brothers acquired the land of Stargard together with Beseritz and Wustrow from Wartislaw III, Herzog von Pommern. That same year they secured the northernmost parts of their land by beginning the construction of the castle of Stargard.
     “Although situated close to Berlin-Cölln and now part of the city of Berlin, the Slav castle of Köpenick, at the confluence of Spree and Dahme rivers, came under Ascanian rule only in 1245 after a seven-year battle against the Wettins of Meissen. After this war, the Wettin fortress of Mittenwalde also came under the ownership of the margraves, who then systematically built up their rule towards the East. In 1249 the Ascanian holdings, with parts of the land of Lebus, reached the Oder.
     “When in 1250, in the Treaty of Landin, the dukes of Pomerania had ceded to the Ascanians the northern Uckermark _(Terra uckra)_ up to the Welse, Randow and Löcknitz in exchange for half the land of Wolgast, Otto and Johann had created the basis for the German colonisation of the _Terra trans Oderam._ This exchange was achieved with the benefit of marriage politics: in 1230 Johann's first wife Sophie of Denmark, daughter of Valdemar II Sejr, king of Denmark, had brought half of Wolgast into the marriage as her dowry. The Treaty of Landin in the year 1250 is regarded as marking the birth of the Uckermark.
     “Through land acquisition, the brothers crossed the Oder and expanded their domain to the East out to the river Drage and north out to the river Persante. In 1257 Johann founded, some 80 kilometres northeast of Frankfurt a.d. Oder, the city of Landsberg by the river Warthe as a bulwark against the nearby Polish frontier fortress of Zantoch. In 1261 the margraves purchased from the Knights Templar the city of Soldin, which developed into the centre of power of the Neumark.
     “To stabilise the new parts of the land the two margraves reverted to the proven Ascanian method of establishing monastic settlements. Already in 1230 they had supported the foundation of the Cistercian abbey of Paradies (Paradise) by the Polish Count Nicolaus Bronisius near Midzyrzecz (Meseritz) as an affiliate of the abbey of Lehnin. The connection with the Polish count secured the border against Pomerania and prepared for the economic development of this part in the Neumark.
     “According to the _Chronica Marchionum Brandenburgensium_ from the year 1280, Otto and Johann established Berlin. As they had begun their joint rule of the margraviate in 1225, the period around 1230 can be taken as the founding period of Berlin as a city. While they cannot strictly be called the founding fathers of Berlin, which existed as a community much earlier, they played a decisive role in its expansion into a city through the award of a town charter by no later than 1240. This included the implementation of Brandenburg laws (including customs freedoms, free exercise of trade and commerce, and hereditary property law).
     “Otto died on 9 October 1267 at his residence in Brandenburg. Although the abbey of Lehnin remained the traditional Ascanian burial place of his line, Otto chose to be buried in the church of the Dominican abbey of Strausberg that he had founded in 1252.
     “The two lines came together briefly in 1309 through the marriage of Waldemar, Markgraf von Brandenburg, grandson of Johann I, to Markgräfin Agnes von Brandenburg, great granddaughter of Otto III. However he died without progeny in 1319.”.²

; This is the same person as ”Otto III, Margrave of Brandenburg” at Wikipedia, as ”Othon III de Brandebourg” at Wikipédia (FR), and as ”Ota III. Braniborský” at Wikipedie (CZ).^11,12,13

; Per Genealogy.EU (Ascania): “G2. Mgve Otto III of Brandenburg (1220-67), +Brandenburg an der Havel 9.10.1267; m.before VI.1243 Beatrix of Bohemia (+25.5.1286)”.¹⁴

; Per Med Lands:
     "OTTO von Brandenburg ([1209/16]-Brandenburg am Havel 9 Oct 1267, bur Strausberg Dominican church). The Cronica Principum Saxonie names "Iohannem et Ottonem" as sons of "Albertus secundus"[193]. The Chronicon Sancti Michaelis Luneburgensis names "Iohannes et Otto marchiones" as brothers of "Megthildem filiam Ottonis marchionis", wife of "Ottonem filium [Willehelmi]"[194]. He succeeded in 1220 as OTTO III joint Markgraf von Brandenburg, jointly with his brother. "Mechtildis…marchionissa Brandenburgensis, Johannes et Otto filii eius" purchased territories from the archbishop of Magdeburg, with the consent of "Henricus comes Ascharie, qui tutelam prefatorum nepotum nostrorum gerimus", by charter dated 20 Sep 1221[195]. "Johannes et Otto…marchioness Brandenburgensis" donated property to Kloster Arendsee by charter dated 6 Nov 1225 in memory of "patris nostri Alberti pie memorie marchionis Brandenburgensis"[196]. "Johannes…marchio Brandenburgensis" donated property to Kloster Neuendorf by charter dated 11 Dec 1233 with the consent of "nostri fratris marchionis Ottonis"[197]. "Otto…Brandenburgensis Marchio" donated property to Kloster Arendsee by charter dated 2 Aug 1253 witnessed by "domina Beatrix…uxor nostra, Johannes primogenitus noster, Conradus filius frater nostri, Adolphus comes de Dannenberch"[198]. The Cronica Principum Saxonie records the death "1267 in die sancti Dyonisii" of "Otto III" and his burial "Struzeberch in…ecclesie fratrum Predicatorum"[199].
     "m (before Jun 1243) BEATRIX [Božena] of Bohemia, daughter of WENZEL I King of Bohemia & his wife Kunigunde von Hohenstaufen ([1230/31]-Breslau 27 May 1290, bur Breslau Klarissenkloster). The Cronica Principum Saxonie names "Beatricem filiam regis Boemie" as wife of "Otto III"[200]. An undated memorial of the foundation of Kloster Arendsee names "Ottonis et Beatrice uxoris eius" among donors to the monastery[201]. The Notæ Sanctæ Claræ record the death "1290 VI Kal Iun" of "Beatrix marchionissa Brandburgensis" specifying that she was sister of "Anna ducissa, filia regis Bohemis, coniunx ducis Henrici"[202]."
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; Per Med Lands:
     "BEATRIX [Božena] ([1230/31]-Breslau 27 May 1290, bur Breslau Klarissenkloster). The Cronica Principum Saxonie names "Beatricem filiam regis Boemie" as wife of "Otto III"[292]. An undated memorial of the foundation of Kloster Arendsee names "Ottonis et Beatrice uxoris eius" among donors to the monastery[293]. The Notæ Sanctæ Claræ record the death "1290 VI Kal Iun" of "Beatrix marchionissa Brandburgensis" specifying that she was sister of "Anna ducissa, filia regis Bohemis, coniunx ducis Henrici"[294].
     "m (before Jun 1243) OTTO III Markgraf von Brandenburg, son of ALBRECHT II Markgraf von Brandenburg [Ballenstedt] & his wife Mathilde von Landsberg [Wettin] ([1209/16]-Brandenburg am Havel 9 Oct 1267, bur Strausberg Dominican church). The Canonicorum Pragensium Continuationes Cosmæ names "Ottoni marchioni" as "genero suo [=rex Prziemysl]" and his wife "sorori suæ de Bramburk, Czaslaw"[295]."
Med Lands cites:

; Per Genealogy.EU (Bohemia 2): “D3. Beatrix, +Breslau 25.5.1286; m.VI.1243 Margrave Otto III of Brandenburg (+9.10.1267)”


Per Genealogy.EU (Ascania 1): “G2. Mgve Otto III of Brandenburg (1220-67), +Brandenburg an der Havel 9.10.1267; m.before VI.1243 Beatrix of Bohemia (+25.5.1286.)^15,16" He was Margrave of Brandenburg between 1220 and 1267.^1,10