Iaroslav Sviatopolkovich

Iaroslav Sviatopolkovich, also known as Iaroslav or Yaroslav Sviatopolchich (1070s – 1124), was Prince of Volhynia from 1100 to 1118. Early life Iaroslav was the second son of Sviatopolk Iziaslavich (who was the youngest son of Iziaslav I Iaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev). Iziaslav fled to Poland after his brothers, Sviatoslav Iaroslavich and Vsevolod Iaroslavich, dethroned him in 1073. Sviatopolk accompanied his exiled father. Historian Márta Font proposes that Sviatopolk had most probably fathered children by the time he left Kievan Rus'. One "Gerasclauus, the son of the king of the Ruthenians" was listed among the witnesses of the deed of foundation of the Somogyvár Abbey in 1091. The document also recorded that Gerasclauus was the son-in-law of Ladislaus I of Hungary. Font associates Gerasclauus with Iaroslav, because Iaroslav's good relationship with the Hungarian kings is well-documented. She says that Iaroslav most probably married Ladislaus I's daughter in the early 1090s. In 1097, his father sent Iaroslav to Hungary to persuade Coloman, King of Hungary to support him.