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Birth:          ABT  962 
Death:          1002 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogneda_of_Polotsk
Rogneda of Polotsk (962–1002) is the Slavic name for Ragnhild, whose father 
Ragnvald (Slavic: Rogvolod) came from Scandinavia and established himself at 
Polatsk in the mid-10th century.

Life[edit]

It has been speculated that Rogneda belonged to the Ynglings royal family of Norway. 
In or about 980, Vladimir, on learning that she was betrothed to his half-brother 
Yaropolk I of Kiev, took Polotsk and forced Rogneda to marry him. Having raped 
Rogneda in the presence of her parents, he ordered them to be killed, along with two 
of Rogneda's brothers.

Rogneda gave him several children. The four sons were Yaroslav the Wise, Vsevolod, 
Mstislav of Chernigov, and Izyaslav of Polotsk. She also bore two daughters, one of 
whom is named by Nestor the Chronicler as Predslava (taken as a concubine of 
Boleslaus I of Poland, according to Gallus). A later chronicle tells a story, most likely 
taken from a Norse saga, of Rogneda plotting against Vladimir and asking her elder 
son, Izyaslav, to kill him. As was the Norse royal custom, she was sent with her elder 
son to govern the land of her parents, i.e. Polotsk. Izyaslav's line continued to rule 
Polotsk and the newly found town of Izyaslavl until the Mongol invasion.

After Vladimir converted to Christianity and took Anna Porphyrogeneta as his wife, he 
had to divorce all his previous wives, including Rogneda. After that, she entered the 
convent and took the name Anastasia.

Legacy[edit]

Around 1825 Kondraty Ryleev wrote a narrative poem entitled Rogneda. This poem 
became a literary source for her portrayal in the nationalist Russian opera Rogneda by 
Alexander Serov, which premiered in 1865.

Parents
OF POLOTSK Rogvolod (ABT  936 - )
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Siblings
OF POLOTSK Rogneda (ABT  962 - 1002)

Marriage To SWJATOSLAWITSCH VLADIMIR I "The Great" ( 955 - 15 Jul 1015)
    m.  

Notes
his third

Parents
IGORJEWITSCH Avatislav (Svyatoslav) I ( 920 -  972)
OF LUBECK Maloucha (Malusha) (Malfreda) (Debrima) (ABT  934 - 1002)

Children by SWJATOSLAWITSCH VLADIMIR I "The Great"  955 - 15 Jul 1015
____ Vladimirovna (EST  978 - 1044)
WLADIMIROWWITSCH Jaroslaw (Jaroslav) (Yaroslav) I "the Wise" Mudry ( 980 - 20 Feb 1054)

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