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Birth:          1050 of Kiev, Ukraine
Death:          16 Apr 1113 

Notes
not married
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatopolk_II_of_Kiev
Sviatopolk II Iziaslavich (1050 – April 16, 1113) was supreme ruler of the Kievan Rus 
for 20 years, from 1093 to 1113. He was not a popular prince, and his reign was 
marked by incessant rivalry with his cousin Vladimir Monomakh. Upon his death the 
Kievan citizens raised a rebellion against the Jewish merchants and Varangian 
officials who speculated in grain and salt.
Early life[edit]

Sviatopolk was the son of Iziaslav Iaroslavich by his concubine. Sviatopolk's Christian 
name was Michael. During his brother Iaropolk's life, Sviatopolk was not regarded as a 
potential claimant to the Kievan throne. In 1069 he was sent to Polotsk, a city briefly 
taken by his father from the local ruler Vseslav, and then he spent ten years (1078–88) 
ruling Novgorod. Upon his brother's death he succeeded him in Turov, which would 
remain in possession of his descendants until the 17th century.

Reign[edit]

When Vsevolod Iaroslavich died in 1093, Sviatopolk was acknowledged by other 
princes as the senior son of Veliki Kniaz and permitted to ascend the Kievan throne. 
Although he participated in the princely congresses organized by Vladimir Monomakh, 
he is sometimes charged with encouraging internecine wars among Rurikid princes. 
For instance, he sided with his cousin David of Volhynia and his son-in-law Boleslaw 
III Wrymouth in capturing and blinding one of Galician princes. He also sided with 
Vladimir Monomakh in several campaigns against the Kypchaks but was defeated in 
the Battle of the Stugna River (1093).

Sviatopolk's Christian name was Michael, so he encouraged embellishment of St 
Michael's Abbey in Kiev, which has been known as the Golden-Roofed up to the 
present. The history now known as the Primary Chronicle was compiled by the monk 
Nestor during Sviatopolk's reign.

Marriage and children[edit]

Sviatopolk married firstly a Bohemian princess (Premyslid dynasty), probably a 
daughter of Duke Spytihnev II. They had three children:
1.Zbyslava, married to king Boleslaw III of Poland on November 15, 1102.
2.Predslava, married to Prince Álmos of Hungary on August 21, 1104. Her fate is less 
known.
3.Iaroslav (died 1123), Prince of Volynia and Turov was married three times - to 
Hungarian, Polish Sophia (daughter of Wladyslaw I Herman and his second wife Judith 
of Swabia), and Kievan princesses. In consequence of Iaroslav's early death, his 
descendants forfeited any right to the Kievan throne and had to content themselves 
with Turov and Pinsk.

Secondly, in 1094 Sviatopolk married to a daughter of Tugor Khan of the Kypchaks, 
Olena. They had four children:
1.Anna (died 1136), married to Sviatoslav Davydych from Chernihiv who turned into a 
monk upon her death and later became Saint Nikolai Svyatoslav Davydych of 
Chernihiv.
2.Maria, married Piotr Wlostowic, castellan of Wroclaw and Polish palatine.
3.Bryachislav (1104–1127), possibly dethroned Iaroslav as the Prince of Turov (1118–
1123) in 1118.
4.Izyaslav (died 1127), possibly the Prince of Turov in 1123.

Some sources claim that Sviatopolk used to have an out of wedlock son Mstislav who 
ruled Novgorod-Sieversky in 1095–1097 and later Volyn (1097–1099). It seems that he 
later was murdered in Volodymyr-Volynski.[1]

There are little or no information on most of Svitopolk's children except Iaroslav and 
Zbyslava. Iaroslav and his children largely continued to rule the Principality of Turov, 
yielding Volyn.

Parents
YAROSLAVICH Isjarlaw (Isiaslaw) Izyaslav I Dmitrij (1025 - 3 Oct 1078)
OF POLAND Gertrude (Gertruda) (ABT 1020 - 4 Jan 1108)

Siblings
MIKHAIL ISJASLAWITSCH Sviatpolk (Svyatopolk) (Swjatopolk) II (1050 - 16 Apr 1113)

Marriage To OF BERG-SCHELKLINGEN Solome (ABT 1060 - 27 Jul 1144)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Heinrich (ABT 1040 - )
____ Adelaide (ABT 1040 - )

Children by OF BERG-SCHELKLINGEN Solome ABT 1060 - 27 Jul 1144
SVYATOPOLKOVNA Predslava (1075 - AFT 1116)
SVYATOPOLKOVNA OF KIEV Zbyslava (Sbislawa) Sbyslava (ABT 1087 - ABT 1114)

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