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Personal data Maria Dobroniega van Kiev 

  • She was born in the year 1012.
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    Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (b. aft. 1012[1] – d. 1087), was a Kievian Rus princess of the Rurikid dynasty and by marriage Duchess of Poland.
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    She was one of the youngest children of Vladimir I, Grand Prince of Kiev. The identity of her mother is disputed among historians and web sources.

    Grand Prince Vladimir I had married seven times and had fathered many children, legitimate and illegitimate. Anna Porphyrogeneta, his sixth wife, is known to have predeceased Vladimir by four years. Chronicle Thietmar of Merseburg, writing from contemporary accounts, mentions that Boleslaw I of Poland captured Vladimir I's widow during his raid on Kiev in 1018. The historians long had no clue as to identity of this wife. The emigre historian Nicholas Baumgarten, however, pointed to the controversial record of the "Genealogia Welforum" and the "Historia Welforum Weingartensis" that one daughter of Count Kuno von Oenningen (future Duke Konrad I of Swabia) by "filia Ottonis Magni imperatoris" (Otto the Great's daughter; possibly Rechlinda Otona [Regelindis], claimed by some as illegitimate daughter and by others legitimate, born from his first marriage with Edith of England) married "rex Rugorum" (King of Rus). He interpreted this evidence as pertaining to Vladimir I's last wife. This woman is a possible identity for Maria's mother.
    Marriage

    Maria married around 1040 to Casimir I the Restorer, Duke of Poland. This marriage helped Casimir to gain support in his reclaim over the Polish throne. Casimir had attempted to seize the throne twice before, both times he failed. With the support of Maria's brother, Yaroslav I the Wise, Casimir was able to make a successful claim.

    The couple had five children. Maria's husband died on 28 November 1058. Her sixteen-year-old son, Boleslaw, became King of Poland. Boleslaw II is considered one of the most capable of the Piast rulers; however, he was deposed and expelled from the country in 1079. Boleslaw II died two years later, in 1081.

    Maria survive her son six years and died in 1087, aged seventy-seven or seventy-six.
  • She died in the year 1087, she was 75 years old.
  • A child of Wladimir I Svjatoslawitsch "de Grote" van Kiev
  • This information was last updated on April 5, 2013.

Household of Maria Dobroniega van Kiev

She is married to Casimir I "de restaurator" van Polen.

They got married.


Child(ren):

  3. Mieszko van Polen  1045-1065
  4. Otto van Polen  1046-1048
  5. Swietoslawa van Polen  1048-1126 

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