Vysheslav of Kiev

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Artist's impression of Wyscheslawa from the 19th century

Wyscheslawa Swjatoslawna ( Russian Вышеслава Святославна , polish Wyszesława Światosławówna ) * to 1047; † after 1089, was a princess of the Kievan Rus , member of the noble family of the Rurikids and by marriage princess and later queen of Poland .

She was the oldest child and the only daughter of Svyatoslav II , Prince of Chernihiv and later Grand Duke of Kiev , probably a member of the noble family of the Dithmarschen.

Life

The chronicler Jan Długosz and other authors reported their descent. She was sure to have married Bolesław the Bold Prince of Poland before 1069 because their only child, Mieszko , was born that year. She was probably crowned Queen of Poland by Archbishop Bogumił together with her husband on Christmas Day 1076 in the Arch-Cathedral of Gniezno .

In 1079 she was exiled to Hungary together with her husband and son . Two years later (around 1081 or 1082) Bolesław II died under mysterious circumstances, probably from poisoning . In 1086 Wyscheslawa returned to Poland with her son. According to Gallus Anonymus , she attended the funeral of her son, who was poisoned in 1089.

Modern historians, such as Oswald Balzer in his work Genealogia Piastów (1895), doubted the name and origin of Bolesław II's wife. Instead, she is said to have been of German or Russian origin. In addition, the theory was put forward that a queen named Agnes, whose obituary was recorded in Zwiefalten , was the actual wife of Bolesław II and that she also belonged to the ruling family of the Přemyslids .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicolas Homar Genealogía, Reyes y Reinos .
  2. ↑ Russia, Rurik . Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
  3. ^ Nicholas Baumgarten (1927), p. 20, citing Sommersberg, Selisiacorum Rerum Scriptores , Volume V, pages 650-651; Monumenta Poloniae Historica, volume. IV, Tatyszczew, Volume III, page. 119, and Linniczenko, Relations mutuelles de Russie et de Pologne , 53.
  4. ↑ T. Jurek, Agnes regina. W poszukiwaniu żony Bolesława Szczodrego, LXXII, 2006, pages 95-104.
personal data
SURNAME Vysheslav of Kiev
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vysheslava Svyatoslavna of Kiev (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of Kievan Rus and later Queen of Poland
DATE OF BIRTH around 1047
DATE OF DEATH after 1089