Rogvolod

Rogvolod (; ; 920978) was the first chronicled prince of Polotsk. He reigned until 978, when he and his two sons were killed by Vladimir the Great, then the prince of Novgorod, who took his daughter Rogneda as a wife.

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Royalty.name: Rogvolod
Royalty.title: Prince of Polotsk
Royalty.image: Rogvolod_Post_stamp.jpg
Royalty.caption: Rogvolod in a 1993 Belarusian stamp
Royalty.issue: Rogneda
Royalty.death_date: 978
Royalty.death_place: Polotsk

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Place of birth: Scandinavia
Place of death: Polatsk
Child: Rogneda
Occupation: aristocrat
Position held: Prince of Polotsk
Languages spoken: Old East Slavic
Family: Rurikids of Polotsk
Noble title: knyaz
Image: Rahvałod Połacki i Rahnieda (silver coin, reverse).gif

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date of death: 0978-01-01
Commons category: Rahvalod of Polack
manner of death: homicide
date of birth: 0901-00-00
killed by: Vladimir the Great

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==Name== In the Primary Chronicle, he is known as , probably a slavicized version of the Old Norse name Ragnvald. mentioned a possibility of the association of the name with the East Slavic words рог and володеть (the opinion of a 19th-century anti-Normanist historian Stepan Gedeonov, who argued for the Slavic origin of Rogvolod in his Varangians and Rus; Debugking the Nortmann Myth), noting, however, that there is no evidence against the foreign origin of the name.

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