Genealogische database BergSmit » Olga "de Heilige" NN. (890-969)

Persoonlijke gegevens Olga "de Heilige" NN. 

• Zij is geboren in het jaar 890.
• Zij is overleden in het jaar 969, zij was toen 79 jaar oud.

Gezin van Olga "de Heilige" NN.

Zij is getrouwd met Igor van Nowgorod.Bron 2

Kind:_FREL Natural -
Kind:_MREL Natural

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Swatislaw van Kiëv  942-± 973 

Notities over Olga "de Heilige" NN.

NOTE: Probably of Slavic descent, St. Olga was considered a peasant when shemarried
2 CONC Igor, the Grand Duke of Kiev, Russia. During a campaign againstthe Drevlianians in the year 945, Igor was assassinated. Since thecouple's son,
2 CONC Svyatoslav, was too young to rule, Olga served as regentand eventually effected revenge against the Drevlianians for herhusband's
2 CONC death. The details of this effort are described in theChronicleof Nestor.Olga is given high praise for her courage and ability as a ruler, and
2 CONC forinstituting administrative and fiscal reforms throughout therealm.
2 CONC Sheadditionally hastened her country's recovery from the destructive warsthat had
2 CONC devastated the land during her husband's reign. She was thefirst of Russian ruler to be baptized a Christian.Upon Olga's death in 969,her pagan son honored her request and gave hera
2 CONC Christian burial. She was soon regarded as a saint and is honored inthe Russian and Ukranian Churches. Because her conversion took placebefore the
2 CONC schism, she is also regarded as a saint of the universalCatholic Church.Olga did not live to see the conversion of Russia, but has thedistinction of
2 CONC being the grandmother of St. Vladimir, who effected theChristianization of his people.

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