Gertruda of Poland

Possibly also known as Olisava.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 4 January 1108.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Jasiński.

Relationships

Father: Mieszko II Lambert, king of Poland.

This relationship is given by Glocker (p. 337), by Labuda, by Ludat, by Żołądź-Strzelczyk, by Raffensperger (2006, 2016, website), by Balzer, and by Jasiński. Glocker does not name her.

Mother: Richeza.

This relationship is given by Glocker (p. 337), by Labuda, by Ludat, by Żołądź-Strzelczyk, by Raffensperger (2006), by Balzer, and by Jasiński.

Spouse: Iziaslav I, grand prince of Kiev.

This relationship is given by Glocker (p. 337), by Labuda, by Ludat, by Żołądź-Strzelczyk, by Raffensperger (2006; 2016; website), by Balzer, and by Jasiński.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Mstislav (died 1069).

Iaropolk Piotr (died 1086) married Kunigunde von Weimar.

Sviatopolk II (1050 -  about 1113), grand prince of Kiev, married (1) unknown; married (2) a daughter of Tugor, khan of the Kumans; married (3) Barbara Komene.

Eudoxia married Mieszko, prince of Poland.

References

Balzer, Oswald. Genealogia Piastów (Krakow:1895).

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).

Jasiński, Kazimierz. Rodowód pierwszych Piastów. (Uniwersytet Wrocławski: Warszawa – Wrocław, 1993).

Labuda, G. "Gertrud" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4 (Stuttgart: 1989).

Ludat, Herbert. Genealogical tables at the end of An Elbe und Oder: Skizzen zur Politik des Ottonenreiches und der slavischen Mächte in Mitteleuropa (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1971).

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. "Gertrude of Poland" on Rusian Genealogy (website). [Consulted 3 February 2018].

Raffensperger, Christian. Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus’. (Harvard U.P., 2016).

Żołądź-Strzelczyk, D. Piasten I genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.