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St. Vladimir

Vladimir the Great
Vladimir-I-Sviatoslavich.jpg
Grand Prince of Kiev
Reign 11 June 980 – 15 July 1015
Coronation 11 June 980
Predecessor Yaropolk I of Kiev
Successor Sviatopolk I of Kiev
Prince of Novgorod
Reign 969 – c.  977
Predecessor Sviatoslav I of Kiev
Successor Yaropolk I of Kiev
Born c.  958
Budyatychi (modern Volyn Oblast, Ukraine)
Died 15 July 1015(1015-07-15) (aged c.  57)
Berestove (today a part of Kiev)
Burial Church of the Tithes, Kiev
Spouse Allogia
Rogneda of Polotsk
Adela
Malfrida
Anna Porphyrogenita
a granddaughter of Otto the Great
Issue
among others
Izyaslav of Polotsk
Yaroslav the Wise
Mstislav of Chernigov
Saint Boris
Saint Gleb
Maria Dobroniega of Kiev
Agatha (possibly)
Full name
Vladimir Sviatoslavich
Dynasty Rurikids
Father Sviatoslav I of Kiev
Mother Malusha (probably of Northern origin)
Religion Chalcedonian Christianity (from 988)
prev. Slavic pagan
Full name
Vladimir Sviatoslavich
Saint Vladimir of Kiev
St. Volodymyr.jpg
Icon of Saint Vladimir, Novgorod, 16th century
Prince of Novgorod
Grand Prince of Kiev
Born c. 958
Died 1015
Venerated in Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Lutheranism
Anglicanism
Feast July 15
Attributes crown, cross, throne

Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great or Volodymyr (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, Volodiměrъ Svętoslavičь, Old Norse as Valdamarr Sveinaldsson, Ukrainian: Володимир, Volodymyr, Russian: Влади́мир, Vladimir, Belarusian: Уладзiмiр, Uladzimir; c. 958 – 15 July 1015, Berestove) was a prince of Novgorod, grand prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015.

Vladimir's father was prince Sviatoslav of the Rurik dynasty. After the death of his father in 972, Vladimir, who was then prince of Novgorod, was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his brother Yaropolk had murdered his other brother Oleg and conquered Rus'. In Sweden, with the help from his relative Ladejarl Håkon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, he assembled a Varangian army and reconquered Novgorod from Yaropolk. By 980 Vladimir had consolidated the Kievan realm from modern-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to the Baltic Sea and had solidified the frontiers against incursions of Bulgarian, Baltic, and Eastern nomads. Originally a follower of Slavic paganism, Vladimir converted to Christianity in 988 and Christianized the Kievan Rus'.


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