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Personal data Anna van Kiev 

• She was born in the year 1036 in Kiev.

  Attention: Age at marriage (May 19, 1051) below 16 years (15).

• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Anna van Kiev (Kiev, 1036 - 5 september 1075/1078) was een dochter van de vorst van Kiev, Jaroslav de Wijze, en Ingegred van Zweden. Na de dood van zijn eerste echtgenote Mathilde, zocht Hendrik I van Frankrijk in de Europese vorstenhuizen een nieuwe echtgenote, maar hij vond niemand die niet nauw met hem verwant was. Tenslotte vond hij een nieuwe echtgenote in het afgelegen Kiev en huwde met Anna in 1051. Zij werd de moeder van:
  
  Filips I van Frankrijk (23 mei 1052 - 30 juli 1108)
  Hugo I van Vermandois (1057 - 1102)
  Robert (ca. 1055 - ca. 1060)
  Emma.
  
  Anna introduceerde de Griekse naam Filips in West-Europa. Zij bracht een missaal mee naar Frankrijk dat sindsdien in de kathedraal van Reims werd gebruikt om nieuwe koningen en koninginnen in te zweren. Het missaal was in Oudkerkslavisch en kon in 1771 nog door Peter de Grote worden gelezen.
  
  Na de dood van Hendrik in 1060, was Anna (samen met Boudewijn V van Vlaanderen) regentes over haar zoon Filips I. Anna was een geletterde vrouw - hoogst uitzonderlijk voor die tijd - maar toch riep zij enige tegenstand op wegens haar onvoldoende kennis van het Frans. In 1062 hertrouwde zij met Rudolf van Valois, die voor Anna zijn vrouw Eleonora verstootte. Het koppel werd daarop door paus Alexander II geëxcommuniceerd wegens overspel. Anna moest daardoor haar positie aan het hof opgeven. In 1065 stichtte ze een kerk en abdij te Senlis (Oise). Na het overlijden van Rudolf in 1074 keerde ze terug aan het hof. Ze is begraven in de abdij van La Ferté-Alais.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Anne of Kiev (or Anna Yaroslavna) (between 1024 and 1032–1075) was the queen consort of France as the wife of Henry I, and regent for her son Philip I.
  
  Her parents were Yaroslav I the Wise and princess Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden.
  
  Marriage and children
  Anna and her sisters.
  
  After the death of his first wife, Matilda of Frisia, King Henry searched the courts of Europe for a suitable bride, but could not locate a princess who was not related to him within legal degrees of kinship. At last he sent an embassy to distant Kiev, which returned with Anne (also called Agnes). Anne and Henry were married at the cathedral of Reims on 19 May 1051.
  
  The new queen consort was not instantly attracted to her new realm. She wrote to her father that Francia was "a barbarous country where the houses are gloomy, the churches ugly and the customs revolting."[1]
  
  Anne is credited with bringing the name Philip to Western Europe. She imported this Greek name (Philippos, from philos and hippos, meaning "loves horses") from her Eastern Orthodox culture.
  Regency
  
  For six years after Henry's death in 1060, she served as regent for Philip, who was only eight at the time. She was the first queen of France to serve as regent. Her co-regent was Count Baldwin V of Flanders. Anne was a literate woman, rare for the time, but there was some opposition to her as regent on the grounds that her mastery of French was less than fluent.
  
  A year after the king's death, Anne, acting as regent, took a passionate fancy for Count Ralph III of Valois, a man whose political ambition encouraged him to repudiate his wife to marry Anne in 1062. Accused of adultery, Ralph's wife appealed to Pope Alexander II, who excommunicated the couple. The young king Philip forgave his mother, which was just as well, since he was to find himself in a very similar predicament in the 1090s. Ralph died in September 1074, at which time Anne returned to the French court. She died in 1075, was buried at Villiers Abbey, La Ferte-Alais, Essonne and her obits were celebrated on 5 September.

• She died on September 5, 1075, she was 39 years old.
• She is buried in Abdij van La Ferté-Alais.
• A child of Jaroslav I "de Wijze' van Kiev and Ingegerd van Zweden
• This information was last updated on November 2, 2012.

Household of Anna van Kiev

(1) She is married to Hendrik I van Frankrijk.

They got married on May 19, 1051 at kathedraal van Reims, she was 15 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Emma van Frankrijk  
2. Philips I van Frankrijk  1052-1108 
3. Hugo I "de Grote" de Vermandois  1053-1101 
4. Robert van Frankrijk  1055-1060

(2) She is married to Raoul IV van Vexin.

They got married in the year 1061, she was 25 years old.Source 1

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