List of princesses and grand princesses consort of Kiev

This is a list of princesses and grand princesses consort of Kiev, the wives of the (grand) princes of Kiev (modern Kyiv).

Oleg the Wise was the first undisputed "prince of Kiev",[1] although nothing is known of his wife (or wives). Yaroslav the Wise was the first undisputed "grand prince of Kiev".[2] Therefore, Kievan princely wives before 1019 are known as princesses consort, and after 1019 as grand princesses consort of Kiev.

Princesses and grand princesses consort of Kiev edit

Name Father Birth Marriage Became consort Ceased to be consort Death Spouse
Unknown - - - - - - Oleg the Wise
Olga[3] - c.890 c.903 914 945 969 Igor I
Malusha - - - - - - Sviatoslav I
a Greek nun - - - - - - Yaropolk I
Allogia - - - - - - Volodimer I
a Greek nun, widow of Yaropolk I - - - - - -
Rogneda of Polotsk Ragnvald 962 - - 988 1002
Adela - - - - - -
Malfrida - - - - 1000 -
Anna Porphyrogenita[4] Romanos II Byzantine Emperor
(Macedonian dynasty)
13 March 963 989 1011
a granddaughter of Otto the Great - - - - - -
Unknown Bolesław I Chrobry Duke of Poland
(Piast)
- 1013 1018 Sviatopolk I
Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden Olof Skötkonung King of Sweden
(Munsö)
1001 1019 1050 Yaroslav I
Gertrude of Poland Mieszko II of Poland
King of Poland

(Piast)
1025 1054 1073 1104 Iziaslav I
Killikiya or Kelikia (Cecilia) - - 1043–1047 - - Sviatoslav II
Oda of Stade Lothair Udo I
Margrave of Nordmark

(Udonids)
- 1065 - -
Maria(?) possibly
Constantine IX Monomachos
Byzantine Emperor

(Macedonian dynasty)
- - - - 1067 Vsevolod I
Anna Polovetskaya Cuman khan - 1068 1093 1111
- possibly
Spytihněv II
Duke of Bohemia

(Přemyslid dynasty)
- - - - - Sviatopolk II
Olena Tugorkhan of the Kypchaks - 1094 - - -
Gytha of Wessex Harold Godwinson
King of England

(House of Godwin)
c. 1053/1061 - - - 1098 or 1107 Volodimer II
Eufimia Byzantine noblewoman - - - - 1107
Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden Inge the Elder
King of Sweden

(Stenkil)
- 1090–1096 She was his consort before he became Grand Prince of Kiev 18 January 1122 Mstislav I
Ljubava Saviditsch Dmitry Saviditsch, a nobleman of Novgorod - - - - -
Helena,
an Ossetian Princess
- - - - - - Yaropolk II
Maria Mstislavna of Kiev Mstislav I of Kiev Grand Prince of Kiev
(Rurikids)
- 1116 1139 - 1179 Vsevolod II
Unknown - - - - - 1151 Iziaslav II
Rusudan Demetrius I of Georgia
King of Georgia

(Bagrationi)
- 1154 1210
Unknown Aepa Ocenevich
Khan of the Cumans
- 1108 - - - Yuri I
Helena possibly
Isaac Komnenos
Sebastokrator of the Byzantine Empire

(Komnenos)
- - - - -
Agnes of Poland Boleslaus III
Duke of Poland
(Piast)
1137 1151 1167 1170 1182 Mstislav II
Unknown Beloš Vukanović
Prince of Serbia
(Vukanović)
- 1150 - - - Volodimer III

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Dimnik 2004, p. 259.
  2. ^ Dimnik 2004, p. 264–265, 306.
  3. ^ Martin 2007, p. 14.
  4. ^ Martin 2007, p. 25.

Bibliography edit

  • Dimnik, Martin (January 2004). "The Title "Grand Prince" in Kievan Rus'". Mediaeval Studies. 66: 253–312. doi:10.1484/J.MS.2.306512. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  • Martin, Janet (2007). Medieval Russia: 980–1584. Second Edition. E-book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-36800-4.