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Personal data Wierzchloslawa Ludmilla van Polen 

  • She was born in the year 1150.
  • (Levens event) .Source 1
    Wierzchoslawa Ludmilla of Greater Poland (Polish: Wierzchoslawa Ludmila Mieszkówna; b. bef. 1153 – d. bef. 1223), was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast, by marriage Lady of Bitsch and during 1205-1206 Duchess of Lorraine.

    She was the second daughter and fourth child of Mieszko III the Old, Duke of Greater Poland and since 1173 High Duke of Poland, by his first wife Elisabeth, daughter of King Béla II of Hungary. Her name was probably given after High Duchess Viacheslava of Novgorod, wife of Boleslaw IV the Curly, the ruling High Duke of Poland; with this gesture, Duke Mieszko III maybe showed an expression of warming relations between him and his brother the High Duke.
    Life

    Around 1167, Wierzchoslawa Ludmilla married with Frederick, Lord of Bitsch, second son of Duke Matthias I of Lorraine. The union was arranged by Frederick's maternal uncle Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor during a visit to Poland; thanks to this wedding, Mieszko III gained important allies among his western neighbors.

    During her marriage, Wierzchoslawa Ludmilla bore her husband nine children, five sons —Frederick (who succeeded his father as Duke of Lorraine), Matthias (later Bishop of Toul), Philipp (Lord of Gerbéviller), Thierry (Lord of Autigny) and Henry (Lord of Bayon)— and four daughters —Agatha (Abbess of Remiremont), Judith (Countess of Salm), Hedwig (Countess of Zweibrücken) and Cunigunde (Duchess of Limburg)—.[1]

    Wierzchoslawa Ludmilla became the contact between the French and Polish artistic representatives. One of the theories about the building of the famous Gniezno Doors states that thanks to her efforts, around 1180 the Doors came to her father's court.[2]

    After years of disputes between Frederick and his brother Duke Simon II of Lorraine, in 1205 he finally abdicated and entered a monastery. Then Frederick became the Duke of Lorraine and Wierzchoslawa Ludmilla his duchess consort. However, their reign was short-lived: one year later, in 1206, Duke Frederick I died. Wierzchoslawa Ludmilla returned to Poland after the death of her husband, and remained there until her own death, around 1223.
  • She died in the year 1223, she was 73 years old.
  • A child of Mieszko III "de Oude" van Polen and Elisabeth van Hongarije
  • This information was last updated on March 20, 2013.

Household of Wierzchloslawa Ludmilla van Polen

She is married to Frederik I van Haute-Lorraine.

They got married in the year 1167, she was 17 years old.Source 2


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    Sources

    1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wierzchoslawa_Ludmilla_of_Greater_Poland
    2. http://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-dullemen/I123275.php en en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wierzchoslawa_Ludmilla_of_Greater_Poland

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