Elizabeth of Kiev

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Elizabeth of Kiev

Elisabeth of Kiev (also Ellisiv ; * 1025 , † after 1066 ) was a princess of the Kievan Rus and the wife of the Norwegian king Harald III. Hardråde .

Life

Elisabeth was a daughter of Grand Duke Yaroslav I of Kiev and his wife Ingegerd . In 1035, Harald Hardråde, who was serving at the court of Yaroslav I in Novgorod at the time, asked his daughter Elisabeth to do so. Yaroslav refused the marriage. Harald then moved to the Byzantine Empire to earn wealth and fame there.

Eight years later he went back on his way. According to the skald Snorri Sturluson and the saga Morkinskinna , Harald wrote some poems at this time in which he praised Elisabeth. On his return, Jaroslaw finally allowed Harald to marry Elisabeth.

For Jaroslaw, Elizabeth's marriage to Harald was significant, as she continued the close relationship between the Kievan Rus and the Norwegian royal family and Jaroslaw thus had a better chance of gaining control over part of Norway. Marrying Elisabeth was also important for Harald, because it strengthened his claim to the Norwegian throne.

Harald had two daughters with Elisabeth: Ingegerd von Norway and Maria Haraldsdatter .

In 1066 Elisabeth and her daughters accompanied Harald on his campaign of conquest in the Kingdom of England . He let them go ashore on Orkney and then traveled on to the mainland without them. After Harald's death on September 25th, Elisabeth did not return to the kingdom of the Kievan Rus and is said to have married a Danish ruler.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Tom Holland: The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009, ISBN 0-385-53020-X , p. 301, 305 .
  2. ^ A b Natalia Pushkareva: Women in Russian History: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century . ME Sharpe, 1997, ISBN 0-7656-3270-5 , pp. 13 .
  3. ↑ a b c Christian Raffensperger: Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus' in the Medieval World . Harvard University Press, 2012, ISBN 0-674-06546-8 , pp. 83-86, 107 .
  4. ^ Hugh Montgomery: The God-Kings of Europe: The Descendents of Jesus Traced Through the Odonic and Davidic Dynasties . Book Tree, 2006, ISBN 1-58509-109-X , pp. 121, 135 .
  5. ^ Stefan Burmeister, Nils Müller-Scheeßel: Vanishing point history: archeology and historical science in dialogue . Waxmann Verlag, 2010, ISBN 3-8309-7437-X , p. 53 .
  6. ^ Emma Mason, Robert Brink Shoemaker: The House of Godwine: The History of a Dynasty . A&C Black, 2004, ISBN 1-85285-389-1 , pp. 147 .
personal data
SURNAME Elizabeth of Kiev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of the Kievan Rus
DATE OF BIRTH 1025
DATE OF DEATH after 1066