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Danylo Romanovych

Daniel of Galicia
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Daniel of Galicia (early 20th century image)
King of Galicia and Volhynia (King of Ruthenia)
Reign 1253–1264
Predecessor title created
Successor Lev Danylovych
Grand Prince of Kiev
Reign 1240-1264
Predecessor Roman the Great
Successor Lev I of Galicia
Born 1201
Halych (now Ukraine)
Died 1264
Kholm (modern Chełm, Poland)
Spouse 1st. Anna Mstislavna of Novgorod (daughter of Mstislav Mstislavich the Bold),
2nd. NN (niece of King Mindaugas)
Issue Irakli Danielvich
Lev I of Galicia
Roman Danylovych
Ustynia
Sofia Danylivna
Svarn
Pereyaslava
Mstyslav Danylovych
House Rurik
Father Roman Mstyslavych
Mother Anna from Byzantium

Daniel of Galicia (Ukrainian: Данило Романович (Галицький): Danylo Romanovych (Halytskyi); Old Ruthenian: Данило Романовичъ: Danylo Romanovyčъ; Polish: Daniel I Romanowicz Halicki; 1201 – 1264) was a King of Ruthenia, Prince (Knyaz) of Galicia (Halych) (1205–1255), Peremyshl (1211), and Volodymyr (1212–1231). He was crowned by a papal archbishop in Dorohochyn 1253 as the first King of Ruthenia (1253–1264).

He was also known as Daniel Romanovych. In 1205, after the death of his father, Roman II Mstyslavich, the ruler of Galicia–Volhynia, the boyars of Galicia forced the four-year-old Daniel into exile with his mother Anna of Byzantium and brother Vasylko Romanovich. After the boyars proclaimed one of their own as prince in 1213, the Poles and Hungarians invaded the principality, ostensibly to support the claims of young Daniel and Vasylko, and divided it between themselves. In 1219 he renounced his claims to Galicia in favor of his father-in-law Mstislav the Bold.

In 1221 Daniel re-established his rule over Volhynia, where the boyars and populace had remained loyal to his dynasty. In 1234 he defeated Alexander Vsevolodovich, taking the Duchy of Belz. By 1238, he had defeated the Dobrzyń Knights, and regained most of Galicia, including the capital at Galicia. While the Prussians were under pressure from the Teutonic Order, Daniel attempted to conquer the related Yatvingians.


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