Yaropolk Iziaslavich

Yaropolk Iziaslavich
Christ crowning Yaropolk and his mother Gertruda, 11th-century miniature from the Gertrude Psalter
Prince of Volhynia
Reign	1078–1086/1087
Predecessor	Oleg Svyatoslavich
Successor	Davyd Igorevich
Prince of Turov
Reign	1078–1086/1087
Predecessor	Iziaslav Yaroslavich
Successor	Sviatopolk Iziaslavich
Died	1086/1087
Spouse	Kunigunde, daughter of Otto I, Margrave of Meissen
Issue	Anastasia a daughter[1] Yaroslav Viacheslav Vasilko
Names Yaropolk Iziaslavich (Peter)
House	Rurik
Father	Iziaslav I of Kiev
Mother	Gertrude of Poland

Yaropolk Iziaslavich^[a] (died 22 November 1086/1087)^[b][3] was Prince of Turov and Prince of Volhynia from 1078 until his death.

The son of Grand Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev by a Polish princess named Gertruda, he is visible in papal sources by the early 1070s, but largely absent in contemporary domestic sources until his father's death in 1078. During his father's exile in the 1070s, Yaropolk can be found acting on his father's behalf in an attempt to gain the favor of the German emperors and the papal court of Pope Gregory VII. His father returned to Kiev in 1077 and Yaropolk followed.

After his father's death, Yaropolk was appointed as prince of Volhynia and prince of Turov in 1078 by the new grand prince, his uncle Vsevolod. By 1085, Yaropolk had fallen into a state of enmity with the grand prince, and by extension the grand prince's son Vladimir II Monomakh, forcing him to flee to Poland, his mother's homeland. He returned in 1086 and made peace with Monomakh, but was later murdered on a journey to Zvenigorod.^[4]

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