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Yaroslav III Yaroslavich of Tver, Prince of Tver, Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev, Grand Prince of Vladimir, was born 1230 to Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich of Vladimir (1191-1246) and Rostislava Mstislavna of Smolensk (c1202-1244) and died 16 September 1272 of unspecified causes. He married Natalya (c1230-1252) . He married Kseniya Yuryevna of Tarusa (c1246-1312) 1214 JL .
Yaroslav III Yaroslavich (1220–1271) (Russian: Ярослав Ярославич) was the first Prince of Tver and the tenth Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1264 to 1271. Yaroslav and his son Mikhail Yaroslavich presided over Tver's transformation from a sleepy village into one of the greatest centres of power in medieval Russia. All the later princes of Tver descended from Yaroslav Yaroslavich.
He was a son of Yaroslav II and younger brother of Aleksander Nevsky. In 1247, while still a minor, he received from his uncle the town of Tver.
Yaroslav Yaroslavich in Novgorod
In 1252, Yaroslav and his brother Andrei seized Aleksander Nevsky's capital, Pereyaslavl-Zalessky. Reinforced by Tatar units, Aleksander Nevsky presently fought it back, taking Yaroslav's children prisoners and leaving his wife as a casualty on the battle field. Yaroslav fled to Ladoga whence he was summoned by Novgorodians to succeed Aleksander as their military commander. In 1258 he visited the khan's capital in Sarai, and two years later led the Novgorod army against the Teutonic Knights.
Upon Aleksandr Nevsky's death in 1263, Yaroslav quarreled with Andrei as to who should become Grand Prince next. They went to the Golden Horde for arbitration, which was in favour of Yaroslav. The latter, however, settled in Novgorod and married a daughter of one local boyar. Various Novgorodian factions still conspired against him and sought to place his brother Vasili Yaroslavich or Aleksandr's son Dmitri Aleksandrovich of Pereyaslavl on the throne.
In 1270, the armies of three princes stood for a week near the town of Staraya Russa, ready for battle. The metropolitan, however, managed to reconcile them. Yaroslav, on surrendering Novgorod to his nephew, accompanied him to Sarai and died on his way back to Tver on September 9, 1271. He was succeeded in Tver by his eldest son Svyatoslav Yaroslavich and then by a more famous one, Mikhail Yaroslavich.
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Yaroslav Yaroslavich Born: 1203 Died: 1269
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| Preceded by Aleksandr Nevsky |
Grand Prince of Vladimir 1263–1271 |
Succeeded by Vasili Yaroslavich |
| Preceded by Vasili Aleksandrovich |
Prince of Novgorod 1255–1256 |
Succeeded by Vasili Aleksandrovich |
| Preceded by Dmitri Aleksandrovich |
Prince of Novgorod 1266–1267 |
Succeeded by Yuri Andreyevich |
| Preceded by — |
Prince of Tver 1247–1271 |
Succeeded by Svyatoslav Svyatoslavich |
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Svyatoslav Yaroslavich of Tver (c1250-c1282) | 1250 | 1282 | |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Kseniya Yaroslavna of Tver (c1268-1286) | |||
| Mikhail Yaroslavich of Tver (1271-1318) | 1271 | 22 November 1318 | Anna Dmitriyevna of Kashin (c1280-1368) |
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