Events
Date of Birth: between 965 and 967.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Ludat. Jasiński gives 967.
Date of Death: 17 June 1025.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Ludat, by Jasiński, and by Althoff (p. 379).
Relationships
Father: Mieszko I, prince of Poland.
This relationship is given by Balzer, by Ludat, and by Jasiński.
Mother: Dobrawa of Bohemia.
This relationship is given by Balzer, by Ludat, and by Jasiński.
Spouse: a daughter of Ricdag, margrave. Married about 984, divorced about 985 or 986.
This relationship is given by Balzer, by Ludat, and by Jasiński.
Spouse: a Hungarian woman. Married sometime between 987 and 992.
This relationship is given by Balzer, by Ludat, and by Jasiński. Jasiński gives the date as 987 or 988.
Spouse: Emnilda, daughter of Dobromir. Married 987.
This relationship is given by Balzer, by Ludat, and by Jasiński.
Spouse: Oda von Meissen. Married 3 February 1018.
This relationship is given by Balzer, by Ludat, and by Jasiński.
Children (by his second wife):
(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.)
Bezprym (about 987 - 1032).
Children (by Emnilda):
a daughter (born 988).
Regelinda (989 - 21 March, after 1014), Hermann, margrave of Meissen.
Mieszko II Lambert (990 - 10 May 1034), king of Poland, married Richeza.
a daughter married Sviatopolk I “Okayanniy” Vladimirovich, grand prince of Kiev.
Otto (about 1000 - 1033).
Children (by Oda):
Matylda (died about 1036).
References
Althoff, Gerd. Adels- und Königsfamilien im Spiegel ihrer Memorialüberlieferung: Studieren zum Totengedenken der Billunger und Ottonen. (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1984).
Balzer, Oswald. Genealogia Piastów (Krakow:1895).
Cawley, Charles. “BOLESŁAW I "Chrobry/the Brave" Prince of Poland” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Jasiński, Kazimierz. Rodowód pierwszych Piastów. (Uniwersytet Wrocławski: Warszawa – Wrocław, 1993).
Ludat, H. "Bołeslaw I. Chobry" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 2 (Stuttgart: 1983).