Daniel de Galicie

Daniel de Galicie (in Ukrainian: ДанилоГалицький, Danylo Halytskyï) (1201 - 1264) was, with Alexandre Nevski, the Ukrainian prince most important of the beginning of the period of the Horde of Gold. It had the Rus' de Halych-Volodymyr (Galicie and Volhynie) and, briefly, Kiev. Danylo was the son of the prince Roman of Lodomerie (1170 - 1205). In 1223, it was one of the princes to take part in the Bataille of Kalka against the Mongolian . Beaten, it all the same could escape. After its countryside of 1240 - 41, Khan Batu endeavoured to obtain from Daniel the rebuilding of his country. This last thus made come from the foreign colonists in the country, founded and/or developed cities like Lviv, Chelm as well as the construction of roads. The prince tried to create a broad network of alliances to his protection and it accepted from the pope the crown of king in 1253. In 1257 it refuses to lend oath to the Horde of Gold in Khan Berké but its attempt to release itself from the Gold Horde ended in 1259 in a fiasco. Its country was again devastated hard and it had to flee. It accepted finally the order to shave the walls of all its strong cities.

With his death, his/her son Chvarno de Galicie succeeded to him (1264 - 1269), then his second wire Leon (Lev) (1269 - 1301), that of both which succeeds in having a certain independence of its country. Its line is extinct in 1340.

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