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House

Rurikids

Ruling dynasty in Kievan Rus

  • Dated 862 CE – 1598 CE
  • Also called Rurik dynasty

A family
on the record,
reign by reign.

Documented kin

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Members · 88

The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

What this means

People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.

8 children in the house

  1. Vladimir of Novgorod 1020 CE – 1052 CE
  2. Anastasia of Kyiv 1023 CE – 1074 CE
  3. Iziaslav I of Kiev 1024 CE – 1078 CE
  4. Anne of Kyiv c. 1025 CE – the 1070s CE
  5. Elisiv of Kiev 1025 CE – 1066 CE
  6. Sviatoslav II of Kiev 1027 CE – 1076 CE
  7. Vsevolod I of Kiev 1030 CE – 1093 CE 2 children in the house
  8. Igor Yaroslavich 1036 CE – 1060 CE
One family in Rurikids: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

Every member

People whose own records place them in this house.

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Succession

Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

Grand Prince of Kiev

  • 39 holders
  • 7 gaps
  • 18 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 912 CE – 945 CE Igor of Kiev prince of Kiev (877–945) Has references
  2. 945 CE – 972 CE Sviatoslav I of Kiev Prince of Kiev
  3. 972 CE – 978 CE Yaropolk I of Kiev Prince of Kiev
  4. Gap about 2 years before the next in this house

    11 June 980 CE – 15 July 1015 CE Vladimir the Great Grand Prince of Kiev
  5. 1015 CE – 1016 CE Sviatopolk I of Kiev grand prince of Kiev (978-1019)
  6. 1016 CE – 1018 CE Yaroslav the Wise Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054
  7. 1018 CE – 1019 CE Sviatopolk I of Kiev grand prince of Kiev (978-1019)
  8. 1019 CE – 20 February 1054 CE Yaroslav the Wise Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054 Has references
  9. 20 February 1054 CE – 1068 CE Iziaslav I of Kiev grand prince of Kiev (r. 1054–1068; 1069–1073; 1077–1078)
  10. 1069 CE – 1073 CE Iziaslav I of Kiev grand prince of Kiev (r. 1054–1068; 1069–1073; 1077–1078)
  11. Gap about 3 years before the next in this house

    1076 CE – 1077 CE Vsevolod I of Kiev grand prince of Kiev (1030-1093)
  12. 1077 CE – 3 October 1078 CE Iziaslav I of Kiev grand prince of Kiev (r. 1054–1068; 1069–1073; 1077–1078)
  13. 1078 CE – 1093 CE Vsevolod I of Kiev grand prince of Kiev (1030-1093)
  14. Gap about 32 years before the next in this house

    1125 CE – 1132 CE Mstislav I of Kiev grand prince of Kiev (1076–1132)
  15. 1132 CE – 1139 CE Yaropolk II of Kiev grand prince of Kiev (1082-1139) Has references
  16. Gap about 32 years before the next in this house

    1171 CE – 30 May 1171 CE Vladimir III Mstislavich grand prince of Kiev
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  1. Gap about 2 years before the next in this house

    February 1173 CE – 24 March 1173 CE Vsevolod III the Big Nest Grand Prince of Vladimir, 1176-1212
  2. 1173 CE Sviatoslav III of Kiev Grand Prince of Kiev
  3. Gap about 3 years before the next in this house

    1176 CE – 1181 CE Sviatoslav III of Kiev Grand Prince of Kiev
  4. 1181 CE – 1194 CE Sviatoslav III of Kiev Grand Prince of Kiev
  5. Gap about 55 years before the next in this house

    1249 CE – 1263 CE Alexander Nevsky political and military figure of Kievan Rus' (1246–1263)

No dates recorded 18

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Prince of Moscow

  • 13 holders
  • 1 overlap
  • 3 gaps
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1263 CE – 5 March 1303 CE Daniel of Moscow Russian prince and saint (1261-1303)
  2. 5 March 1303 CE – 21 November 1325 CE Yury of Moscow Grand prince of Moscow (1281-1325)
  3. 1325 CE – 31 March 1340 CE Ivan I of Moscow Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir
  4. 31 March 1340 CE – 27 April 1353 CE Simeon of Moscow Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1316-1353)
  5. 27 April 1353 CE – 13 November 1359 CE Ivan II of Moscow Grand Prince of Moscow (1326-1359)
  6. 1359 CE – 1389 CE Dmitry Donskoy Prince of Moscow
  7. 1389 CE – 1425 CE Vasily I of Moscow Grand Prince of Moscow (1372-1425)
  8. Gap about 8 years before the next in this house

    25 April 1433 CE – 28 September 1433 CE Yury of Zvenigorod Grand prince of Moscow
  9. 31 March 1434 CE – 5 June 1434 CE Yury of Zvenigorod Grand prince of Moscow
  10. 5 June 1434 CE – July 1434 CE Vasily Kosoy Grand Prince of Moscow
  11. Gap about 11 years before the next in this house

    7 July 1445 CE – 26 October 1445 CE Dmitry Shemyaka Grand Prince of Moscow
  12. Gap about 7 years before the next in this house

    4 June 1452 CE – 27 October 1505 CE Ivan III of Moscow Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 to 1505 Has references
  13. Overlap held at the same time as Ivan III of Moscow

    1502 CE – 1505 CE Vasili III of Moscow Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1505 to 1533

Grand Prince of Novgorod

  • 13 holders
  • 7 gaps
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 862 CE – 879 CE Rurik Varangian chieftain (c. 830-879)
  2. 879 CE – 945 CE Igor of Kiev prince of Kiev (877–945)
  3. 945 CE – 969 CE Sviatoslav I of Kiev Prince of Kiev
  4. 970 CE – 988 CE Vladimir the Great Grand Prince of Kiev
  5. Gap about 22 years before the next in this house

    1010 CE – 1034 CE Yaroslav the Wise Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054
  6. 1034 CE – 1052 CE Vladimir of Novgorod eldest son of Yaroslav I the Wise of Kiev by Ingigerd, daughter of king Olof Skötkonung of Sweden (1020-1052)
  7. Gap about 176 years before the next in this house

    1228 CE – 1229 CE Alexander Nevsky political and military figure of Kievan Rus' (1246–1263)
  8. Gap about 7 years before the next in this house

    1236 CE – 1240 CE Alexander Nevsky political and military figure of Kievan Rus' (1246–1263)
  9. 1241 CE – 1252 CE Alexander Nevsky political and military figure of Kievan Rus' (1246–1263)
  10. Gap about 5 years before the next in this house

    1257 CE – 1259 CE Alexander Nevsky political and military figure of Kievan Rus' (1246–1263)
  11. Gap about 63 years before the next in this house

    1322 CE – 1325 CE Yury of Moscow Grand prince of Moscow (1281-1325)
  12. Gap about 3 years before the next in this house

    1328 CE – 1337 CE Ivan I of Moscow Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir
  13. Gap about 18 years before the next in this house

    1355 CE – 1359 CE Ivan II of Moscow Grand Prince of Moscow (1326-1359)

Prince of Chernigov

  • 9 holders
  • 1 gap
  • 7 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1073 CE – 1078 CE Vsevolod I of Kiev grand prince of Kiev (1030-1093)
  2. Gap about 86 years before the next in this house

    1164 CE – 1180 CE Sviatoslav III of Kiev Grand Prince of Kiev

No dates recorded 7

Chronology is not a full explanation

Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.

Religious context · a separate claim

Affiliation

Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.

What this means

Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.

Connections

How Rurikids connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Transmission 1

What this means

Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Text 2

What this means

A work, its editions and its witnesses are distinct; their dates are not interchangeable.

Does not imply that the work is the only account · that the work is contemporary with what it describes

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

3 statements on this record

  • 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Junta Granada Informa from Granada, España · CC BY-SA 2.0

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