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Title: ... and Mstislav was given the City of Ascalon
Subtitle: Could the Russian Prince have been the Viceroy of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I in the Holy Land?
Author(s): MAIOROV, Alexander V.
Journal: Byzantion
Volume: 86    Date: 2016   
Pages: 189-203
DOI: 10.2143/BYZ.86.0.3180825

Abstract :
The author points to the possible presence of the Russian prince Mstislav Jur’evič (son of Jurij Dolgorukij) in Ascalon as a vicegerent of the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos. Prince Mstislav may have been in Ascalon from the late 1160s until the capture of the city by Muslims in 1187, after which he returned to Novgorod.

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