Yaroslav was born in 1230. He was a son of
Yaroslav II and a younger brother of
Alexander Nevsky. In 1247, he received from his uncle the town of
Tver. In 1252, Yaroslav and his brother
Andrey seized Alexander's capital,
Pereslavl-Zalessky. Reinforced by Tatar units, In 1258, he visited the khan's capital in
Sarai, and two years later led the Novgorod army against the
Teutonic Knights. Upon Alexander's death in 1263, Yaroslav quarrelled with Andrey 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
Vasily of Kostroma or Alexander's son
Dmitri of Pereslavl 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. He died on his way back to Tver on 9 September 1271 and was succeeded in Tver by his eldest son Svyatoslav and then by
Mikhail. == See also ==