Sveneld
Sign in to saveSveneld (also called Svenald or Sveinald; ; or ), is a semi-legendary 10th-century Varangian warlord in the service of Sviatoslav I and his family. Most of the information about Sveneld is scarce. He is described as a rich man and a voevoda ("troop commander") of Kievan Rus', but his relation to the reigning Rurikid princes, if it existed, has not been positively established.
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- Officeholder.name
- Svenald
- Officeholder.native_name
- Свѣналдъ
- Officeholder.native_name_lang
- orv
- Officeholder.office
- Voivode of Kiev
- Officeholder.monarch
- Igor I of KievSviatoslav I
- Officeholder.successor
- Blud
- Officeholder.birth_date
- c. 920s
- Officeholder.death_date
- c. 970s
- Officeholder.birthname
- Sveinaldr
- Officeholder.nationality
- Varangian
- Officeholder.children
- LyutMstisha
- Officeholder.allegiance
- Kievan Rus'
- Officeholder.serviceyears
- 940s - 970s
- Officeholder.rank
- Voivode
- Officeholder.commands
- Expedition forces to Albania
- Officeholder.battles
- Expedition against UlichsExpedition against AlbaniaExpedition against Byzantium (Siege of Dorostolon)Feud of the Sviatoslavichi
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- 0920-00-00
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- 0970-01-01
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Sveneld (also called Svenald or Sveinald; ; or ), is a semi-legendary 10th-century Varangian warlord in the service of Sviatoslav I and his family. Most of the information about Sveneld is scarce. He is described as a rich man and a voevoda ("troop commander") of Kievan Rus', but his relation to the reigning Rurikid princes, if it existed, has not been positively established.
==Biography== Sveneld started his military career under (or perhaps independently of) Igor of Kiev, when he put to the sword the tribe of Ulichs and secured for himself the right to exact tribute from them and from the Drevlians. The historian Lev Gumilev suggests that Sveneld's enormous fortune, recorded in the Primary Chronicle in 945, was acquired during the 944 expedition of the Rus' against the city of Berdaa in Caucasian Albania, now Azerbaijan, in which Sveneld is presumed to have been the commander-in-chief.