Igor II of Kiev

Igor II Olgovich (c. 1096–1147), son of Oleg of Chernigov, held the Kievan throne for less than a fortnight in 1146. His brother Vsevolod II had named him heir, but the Kievans called in his kinsman Iziaslav II, whose army defeated and captured Igor and threw him into a pit.

Released deathly ill in autumn 1146, he became a monk in Kiev. In 1147 a mob suspecting him of plotting to regain the throne tore down his sheltering balcony and killed him; he was venerated as a martyr.