ABSTRACT
The royal title rex Galiciae emerged in association with the principality of Galicia‒Volhynia, and most likely originated in the western region of the territory. Among the rulers of the Rurik dynasty, Daniel Romanovich, prince of Galicia-Volhynia and grand prince of Kiev, received a crown from Pope Innocent IV and was crowned king of Rus in 1253. Ladislas the Elbow-High who was in the possession of both Greater and Lesser Poland, succeeded in overcoming the Polish fragmentation and, in 1320, he was crowned king. The brief reign of Prince Coloman, crowned King of Galicia with papal permission, enunciated the house of Arpad claims in the same way as the title of rex Galiciae, held by the Hungarian kings without actual possession of the territory. The subordination of the former Galician-Volhynian principality (i.e. the western region of former Kievan Rus) to the Polish kingdom was achieved in the process of negotiations over the Polish-Hungarian personal union, its realisation and its dissolution.
