page_title: Gleb Svyatoslavich
section_title: Prince of Novgorod
hierarchical_section_title: Gleb Svyatoslavich / Prince of Novgorod
caption_attribution_description: English: Principalities of the later Kievan Rus (after the death of Yaroslav I in 1054). (the background map is a modern map of Europe showing current national boundaries, and modern artificial waterways and reservoirs in Russia)
context_page_description: Gleb Svyatoslavich was Prince of Tmutarakan and Novgorod. He ruled Tmutarakan under the overall authority of his father Sviatoslav Iaroslavich, Prince of Chernigov. He was twice expelled from his principality by one of his cousins Rostislav Vladimirovich.
  His father appointed him prince of Novgorod in 1067 or 1068. He suppressed a rebellion incited by a sorcerer against the bishop of the town. Later he was expelled from Novgorod, and was killed by the Chudes. The Russian Primary Chronicle writes that he "was kindly toward the poor and hospitable to strangers, zealous toward the church, warm in faith, peaceful, and fair in appearance".
context_section_description: Gleb was transferred—according to historian Martin Dimnik, by his father—from Tmutarakan to Novgorod in 1067 or 1068. A distant relative of his, Vseslav Briacheslavich lay siege to Novgorod "on October 23, the day of the Lord's brother, St James, a Friday, at the sixth hour of the day", according to the Chronicle of Novgorod. However, Gleb and the Novgorodians routed him on the brook Gzen near the town.
  Gleb's rule in Novgorod was confirmed when his father became the Grand Prince of Kiev in 1073. According to the Hypatian version of the Russian Primary Chronicle, Gleb visited his father in Kiev and witnessed the death of the saintly Abbot Feodosy of the Monastery of the Caves in 1074. He seems to have been on friendly terms with his cousin, Vladimir Monomach whose first son was born in his court at Novgorod. A late source—Vasily Tatishchev's compilation of medieval chronicles—writes that Sviatoslav Iaroslavich appointed Gleb and Vladimir Monomach to command the Rus' troops sent to fight against the Bulgarians at Cherson upon the request of the Byzantine Emperor Michael VII Ducas, but the source's reliability is doubtful.
  The Russian Primary Source narrates that a "magician" arrived in Novgorod and stirred up the townsfolk against the bishop. The magician planned to murder the prelate but Gleb and his druzhina or retinue remained loyal to him. Gleb dared the sorcerer who had stated that he could foretell the future to predict "what was about to happen that very day", according to the Russian Primary Chronicle. The magician declared that he would "perform gre`at miracles", but Gleb pull out an axe from his cloth and killed him. After the magician's death, his followers broke up.
  Gleb's father died on 27 December 1076. According to Novgorodian sources, the citizens of the town rose in revolt and dethroned Gleb in 1078. He fled beyond the lands beyond the river Volkhov, known as Zavoloch'e, where the Chudes killed him on 30 May. His body was transferred to Chernigov where he was buried in the Holy Savior Cathedral on 23 July. No source makes mention of Roman's marriage or his children, suggesting that he never married and died childless.
caption: Principalities in the Kievan Rus' (1054-1132)
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