Boris (Prince of Polotsk)

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Boris (Russian Борис) was Prince of Polotsk in 1222.

mention

Boris was named as Prince of Polotsk with a gleb in the First Novgorod Chronicle . No further information about the two has come down to us in chronicles from that time.

Identification with other people

Boris, son of Ginvilas

In the 15th century Chronicle of Bychowiec (Lithuanian Chronicle) several Lithuanian princes of Polotsk were named for the 12th century. Boris was a son of Ginvilas, this a son of Mingaila, both of whom are said to have already been princes of Polotsk. Boris is said to have founded the city of Baryssau (Borissow). Since this was mentioned in an old Russian chronicle for 1127 at the latest, he must have lived before that. Such an early rule of Lithuanian princes in the Principality of Polotsk is otherwise not known and contradicts the other chronicles. The statement by the Polish historian Maciej Strykowski from the 16th century that he had seen a stone in Baryssau with an inscription God have mercy on me, Boris, son of Ginvilas , later turned out to be a mistake by the author, the stone only read Boris , without further addition.

Boris, son of Davyd

The Russian historian Vasily Tatishchev reported in his History of Russia in the 19th century about a Prince Boris, who is said to have become Prince in Polotsk in 1217. His wife was Svyatochna from Pomerania. Since the chronicle cited by him as evidence is otherwise not known, and many other of his statements in the work were probably invented, the information about Boris is very uncertain.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anti Selart: Livonia and the Rus' in the 13th century (= sources and studies on Baltic history , volume 21). Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2007. ISBN 3-412-16006-7 . P. 100f.
  2. ↑ Н. Н. Улащика: Хроника Быховца. Часть 1 Наука, Москва 1966. online with note 49
  3. ↑ Д. М. Иловайский: История России . Том 1. Москва 1905. Note 1
  4. ↑ But it is often accepted in Belarusian historiography, see Dietrich Beyrau, Rainer Lindner: Handbuch der Geschichte Weißrußlands. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-36255-2 . P. 79
personal data
SURNAME Boris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Polotsk
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH 13th Century