Alexandre Nevskij Prince of Novgorod - Lake Peipus 1247

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**Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky** (b. c. 1220, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Grand Principality of Vladimir; d. 14 November 1263, Gorodets; canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1547) was Prince of Novgorod (1236–1252), Prince of Kiev (1246–1252), and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1252–1263). He checked the eastward advance of the Germans and the Swedes while cooperating with the Mongols in consolidating their domination over Rus'. His victory over a Swedish expeditionary force at the confluence of the Izhora and Neva rivers in 1240 earned him the sobriquet *Nevsky* ("of the Neva").
Alexander was the son of Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich, Grand Prince of Vladimir and the foremost ruler of Rus' in his day. In 1236 he was elected Prince of Novgorod, an office whose principal function at the time was military command. Three years later he married the daughter of the Prince of Polotsk (in present-day Belarus). In 1240 the Swedes invaded Rus' in an attempt to punish the Novgorodians for extending their influence over the Finnic tribes and to block Rus' access to the Baltic Sea. Alexander met and defeated the invaders at the confluence of the Izhora and Neva rivers. The prestige derived from this victory apparently encouraged him to play a more assertive role in Novgorod's internal politics, leading to his expulsion from the city only a few months later. One of his sons, Daniil, became Prince of Moscow and founded the dynasty that would transform the Grand Principality of Moscow into one of the leading states of early modern Europe.