Gytha from Wessex

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Gytha von Wessex ( Old English : Gȳð , also known as Gyda Haraldsdatter ), * before 1066 ; † March 10, 1098 or May 7, 1107 , was a daughter of Harald II , the last Anglo-Saxon King of England , and his partner Edith Swanneck and through marriage to Vladimir II a princess of the Kievan Rus and a member of the Rurikids dynasty .

According to Saxo Grammaticus , Gytha and two of her brothers escaped first to their relatives in Flanders , and then to the court of their uncle, King Sven Estridsson of Denmark . The two brothers were hospitable. Around 1070 Gytha was married to the Ruthenian prince Vladimir Vsevolodovich Monomakh, one of the most famous rulers of the Kievan Rus.

Gytha was the mother of Mstislav the Great , the last ruler of the united Kievan Rus. In Old Norse literature , Mstislaw is named after his grandfather Harald.

There are two types of information about the date of her death. According to an inscription in the church of St. Pantaleon in Cologne , “Gytha the Queen” died on March 10, 1098 as a nun . At this time a service is said to have taken place in memory of the time she spent in Flanders, which at that time still belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne . She is said to have accompanied Godfrey of Bouillon during the First Crusade on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and died there. In addition, a year later, Vladimir II married another woman named Eufimia. On the other hand, she is equated with the unnamed wife of Vladimir II mentioned in the Nestor Chronicle , who is said to have died on May 7, 1107 in Smolensk .

children

Your children were:

  1. Mstislav the Great (1076–1132)
  2. Izjaslav Vladimirovich, Prince of Kursk († September 6, 1096)
  3. Svjatoslaw Vladimirovich, Prince of Smolensk and Perejaslav († March 16, 1114)
  4. Jaropolk II of Kiev (* 1082 - † February 18, 1139)
  5. Vysheslav I of Kiev († February 2, 1154)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death of her father
  2. ↑ a b Vladimir Pashuto. Внешняя политика Древней Руси. Наука. Page 135.
  3. ↑ George Vernadsky : Kievan Russia . Yale University Press (1973). ISBN 0300016476 . Page 358.
  4. ↑ a b c d Alexander Nazarenko. Древняя Русь на международных путях. Moscow. 2001. ISBN 5-7859-0085-8 . Pages 589, 596-597, 600-601, 606-608.
personal data
SURNAME Gytha from Wessex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gyda Haraldsdatter; Gȳð (old English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Harald II, princess of the Kievan Rus and member of the princely family of the Rurikids
DATE OF BIRTH before 1066
DATE OF DEATH after 1098