Danylo Halytsky

Daniel of Galicia
Daniel of Galicia (early 20th century image)
King of Galicia and Volhynia (King of Ruthenia)
Reign	1253–1264
Predecessor	title created
Successor	Lev Danylovych
Born	1201 Halych (now Ukraine)
Died	1264 Kholm (modern Chełm, Poland)
Spouse	1st. Anna Mstislavna of Novgorod (daughter of Mstislav Mstislavich the Bold), 2nd. NN (niece of King Mindaugas)
Issue	Irakli Danielvich Lev I of Galicia Roman Danylovych Ustynia Sofia Danylivna Svarn Pereyaslava Mstyslav Danylovych
House	Rurik
Father	Roman Mstyslavych
Mother	Anna from Byzantium

Daniel of Galicia (Ukrainian: Данило Романович (Галицький): Danylo Romanovych (Halytskyi); Old Ruthenian: Данило Романовичъ: Danylo Romanovyčъ; Polish: Daniel I Romanowicz Halicki; 1201 – 1264) was a King of Ruthenia, Prince (Knyaz) of Galicia (Halych) (1205–1255), Peremyshl (1211), and Volodymyr (1212–1231). He was crowned by a papal archbishop in Dorohochyn 1253 as the first King of Ruthenia (1253–1264).

Daniel of Galicia is mentioned as King Daniel of Russia by Giovanni da Pian del Carpine in his History of Mongols whom we call Tatars (Ystoria Mongalorum quos nos Tartaros appellamus).

He was also known as Danylo Romanovych. In 1205, after the death of his father, Roman II Mstyslavich, the ruler of Galicia–Volhynia, the boyars of Galicia forced the four-year-old Daniel into exile with his mother Anna of Byzantium and brother Vasylko Romanovich. After the boyars proclaimed one of their own as prince in 1213, the Poles and Hungarians invaded the principality, ostensibly to support the claims of young Daniel and Vasylko, and divided it between themselves. In 1219 he renounced his claims to Galicia in favor of his father-in-law Mstislav the Bold.