his principality; the Monomashichi and the Black Caps also joined him. The Kievans opened the gates of the podol’ to Roman. He forced Ryurik and the Olgovichi to capitulate; he gave Kiev, with the consent of Vsevolod III Yuryevich, to Prince Ingvar Yaroslavich of Lutsk. However, Ryurik and the Olgovichi re-captured Kiev on 2 January 1203. Roman asked Vsevolod to broker peace with the Olgovichi, and after he had done the same, on 16 February 1203 he marched against Ryurik in Ovruch. Ryurik submitted to Roman and Vsevolod and promised to sever relations with the Olgovichi and the Cumans. Roman also advised him to ask Vsevolod to reinstate him in Kiev and promised to support his request. Consequently, Vsevolod forgave Ryurik and reappointed him to the town. That winter Ryurik, Roman, and other princes attacked the Cumans and took many captives. They later met at Trypillia to allocate domains in accordance with the services that each prince had rendered in the defense of Rus’. But they quarreled, and Roman seized Ryurik, sent him to Kiev, and had him tonsured as a monk. He also forced Ryurik's wife Anna and daughter Predslava—his own wife whom he had repudiated—into a convent; and he took Ryurik's sons Rostislav and Vladimir Rurikovich with him to Halych. Meanwhile, relations between Roman and Duke Leszek I of Poland had deteriorated for both religious and personal reasons. Leszek was a devout Roman Catholic, and it was probably at his suggestion that Pope Innocent III sent his envoys to Roman in 1204, urging him to accept Roman Catholicism and promising to place him under the protection of St Peter’s sword. Roman’s answer, as recorded in the Radziwiłł Chronicle, was characteristic enough: pointing to his own sword, he asked the envoys, “Is the Pope’s sword similar to mine? So long as I carry mine, I need no other.” Leszek and his brother Duke Konrad I of Masovia undertook a sudden campaign against Roman, who was caught unaware and killed in the first battle at Zawichost. According to another version of the story, Roman wanted to expand his realm at the expense of Poland and died in an ambush while entering Polish territory. Marriage and children 1. Predslava Rurikovna, a daughter of Grand Prince Ryurik Rostislavich of Kiev and his wife, Anna Yuryevna of Turov Fedora Romanovna (?–after 1200), wife of Vasilko Vladimirovich of Halych; Elena Romanovna (or Maria Romanovna)