Also known as Анна Ярославна, Agnès, and Anne de Kiev.
Events
Date of Birth: 1036.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Cawley.
Date of Death: 5 September, between 1075 and 1078.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Cawley.
Place of Burial: Abbaye Villiers near La-Ferté-Alais.
The place is given by père Anselme (1:73) and by Cawley.
Relationships
Father: Iaroslav I “the Wise”, Grand Prince of Kiev.
This relationship is given by Raffensperger (2006; 2016; website), by Franklin (p. 215), and by Poppe.
Mother: Ingegerd Olofsdotter.
This relationship is given by Sirjean (p. 55) and by Cartellieri. Raffensperger (website) states that it is conjectural "based upon Iaroslav's marriages".
Spouse: Henri I, king of France. Married 19 May 1051 at Reims.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:73), by Raffensperger (2006; 2016; website), by Poppe, and by Stewart.
Spouse: Raoul III “le Grand”, count of Valois. Married about 1061.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:73) and by Raffensperger (2006; 2016; website).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)
Philippe de France (1052 - 30 July 1108), later Philippe I, king of France, married (1) Bertha of Holland; married (2) Bertrade de Montfort.
Emma de France (born 1054).
Robert de France (born before June 1054, died about 1063).
Hugues de France (1057 - 18 October 1102), married Adelais, countess of Vermandois.
References
Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).
Cartellieri, Alexander. Philipp II. August, König von Frankreich (Band 4) (Leipzig, 1921; republished 1969).
Cawley, Charles. “ANNA Iaroslavna” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Franklin, Simon, and Jonathan Shepard. The Emergence of Rus 750-1200. (New York: Longman, 1996).
Poppe, A. "Anna von Kiev" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 1 (Stuttgart: 1989).
Raffensperger, Christian. Re-examining Rus’: The Place of Kievan Rus’ in Europe, ca. 800-1146. PhD thesis, Chicago: 2006. [Volume 3: Appendix. Russian Dynastic Marriages 988-1146]
Raffensperger, Christian. "Anna Iaroslavna" on Rusian Genealogy (website). [Consulted 3 February 2018].
Raffensperger, Christian. Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus’. (Harvard U.P., 2016).
Sirjean, Gaston. Encyclopédie généalogique des maisons souveraines du monde: Première Partie No. 3 Les Capétiens Directs (1959).
Stewart, Peter. “Robert II le Pieux (the Pious)” in The Henry Project. (2012)