Pakoslav now offered a second good counsel: “Let the prince, out of
love for the orphans, give them Vladimir of Volynia.” Immediately
Leshko sent this message to Bailski: “Give Vladimir to Vassilko and
Daniel. If thou wilt not consent, I will take it.” Bailski would not
yield, then Leshko constrained him, and installed Roman’s sons in
Vladimir.
Volodislav, now a prisoner, was put in fetters and died in confinement.
No prince would shelter his orphans, because their father had aspired
to sovereignty.
The King and Queen of Galitch, though mere children, were crowned
straightway. Andrei, seeing that the boyars were desirous of union with
Hungary, and remembering their statement that the people would not
oppose union, if their faith and its ceremonies were respected, now
wrote to the Pope on the subject: “Let it be known to your Holiness
that the princes of Galicia, and the people there under us, wish as
king our son, Koloman, and promise union with the Most Holy Roman
Church if they may keep their own ritual. Lest delay harm a thing so
useful to us and to you, give a written command, we beg of you, to the
Archbishop of Strigonia to anoint, at the earliest, our son, the King
of Galitch.”
In the Russian chronicles it is written under the year 1214: “The
Ugrian king seated his son in Galitch; he then drove out and hunted the
clergy and bishops from the churches, and brought in his own Latin
priesthood.”
Thus Galitch was lost for a time to Russian princes and the Orthodox
clergy. In Chernigoff and Kief, people were not thinking of Galitch;
they had their own troubles. Chermny and Rurik exchanged
principalities, Chermny went to Kief and Rurik to Chernigoff. Thus the
ancient home of Oleg and his descendants passed to a descendant of
Monomach, and Chermny, the senior of Oleg’s descendants, not only took
the old capital, but threatened to drive from Kief regions all the
descendants of Monomach. He declared that through their fault a
terrible crime had been committed. “Ye caused the death of my cousins
in Galitch, and put a great shame on us. Ye have no part in Kief
regions,” asserted he. Still after that Chermny turned to Big Nest with
a prayer for peace and friendship. He begged the metropolitan to bear
this request to Vladimir. Peace was granted, and that winter Big Nest
strengthened this peace by a marriage between his second son, Yuri, and
the daughter of Chermny.
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