'Kiev1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Counts/Dukes/Princes of Kiev, Counts of Novgorod

                               
Godoslav, Count (a 808) shown by GenEU but not by 'RoyalData'
m. Umila (dau of Gostomys l, Count of Novgorod)
1. Rurik, Count of Novgorod (d 879)
  m. Efanda of Urman
A. Igor 'the Old', Count of Novgorod and Kiev (b 877, d 945/6)
  m. (c903) Olga of Pskov, Regent of Kiev (b c881, d 969)
  i. Svyatoslav I, Count of Novgorod and Kiev (b c942, d 972)
  m1. Fredslava (dau of Taskany of Hungary)
  a. Yaropolk I, Count of Kiev (b 961, d c979)
  m. Malfada or Julia, Princess of Byzantium
  (1) Svyatoslav I 'the Damned', Prince of Kiev (b 980, d 1019)
  m. (c1013) ?? of Poland (dau of Boleslav I of Poland)
  m2. Esfir
  b. Oleg, Count of Drevliansk (b c959, d 977)
  m3. Malusha (d 1002)
  c. Valdimir (Vladimir) I 'the Saint', 'the Great', Count of Kiev (b c948/960, d 15.07.1015)
GenEU and 'RoyalData' differ on some of Valdimir's marriages and children. As we are interested mainly in offspring who were ancestors of various British families, we simplify the position as follows:
  m1. Olova
  m2. (c977, div 986) Rogneda (b c956, d 1002, dau of Rognvald, Count of Polotsk)
  (1) Yaroslav I 'the Wise', Prince of Kiev (b 978, d 20.02.1054)
  m. (1019) Ingigerd of Sweden (d 10.02.1050, dau of Olaf Skotkonung, King of Sweden)
  (A) Iliya, Count of Novgorod (d 1020)
  (B) Vladimir II, Count of Novgorod (b 1020, d 1052) had issue
  (C) Izyaslav, Count of Turov, Count of Novgorod, Prince of Kiev (b 1024, d 03.10.1078) had issue
  m. (c1043) Gertrud of Poland (d 04.01.1107)
(i)+ issue
  The following connection comes from GenEU (Rurik4).
  partner unknown
  (ii) Svyatopolk, Prince of Kiev (b 1050, d 16.04.1113)
  m(1). ?? ("a Bohemian princess, apparently a niece of Vratislav II")
  (a) Sbyslava of Kiev (d by 1112) EGHJSWY
  m. (15.11.1102) Boleslaw III, Count of Poland (b 20.08.1085, d 28.10.1138) EGHJSWY
  (D) Svyatoslav II, Prince of Kiev (b 1027, d 27.12.1076) had issue
(E) Vsevolod I, Prince of Kiev (b 1030, d 13.04.1093)
  m1. (1046) Irene of Byzantium (d 1067, dau of Konstantinos VIII/IX, Emperor of Byzantium)
  (i) Vladimir II 'Monomachos', Prince of Kiev (b 1053, d 19.05.1125) had issue
  m1. (c1070) Gytha of Wessex (d 07.05.1107, dau of Harold II Godwineson, King of England)
  m2. ?? (d 1107)
  m3. ?? (d 1126)
m2. (1067) Anna of Cumin
  (ii) Eupraxia (Praxedis) of Kiev (b c1070, d 10.07.1109)
  m1. Henry, Count of Stade
  m2. (17.10.1089, div 1093) Heinrich IV, Emperor of Germany (b 1050, d 1106)
  (F) Anna of Kiev (b 1024, d after 11075) EGHJRSWY
  m1. (29.01.1044) Henry I, King of France (b 1008, d 04.08.1060) EGHJRSWY
  m2. (1061/2, div 1067) Raoul II, Count de Crepy
  (G) Anastasia Agmunda of Kiev (b c1023, d after 1074) EGHJSWY
  m. (1037/8) Andrew I, King of Hungary (d 1060) EGHJSWY
(H) Elizabeth of Kiev (b c1032, d after 1045)
  m1. (1045) Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway (b 1015, d 25.09.1066)
  m2. (1067) Svend II Estridsen, King of Denmark (b c1019, d 29.04.1076)
  (I)+ other issue
  m3. Malfrida of Bohemia (d 1002, possibly dau of Boleslaw I 'the Brave', King of Poland)
  m4. Adela
  m5.(988) Anna Porthyrogenita of Byzantium (b 13.03.963, d 1011, dau of Romanus I Lecapenus, Emperor of Byzantium)
  m6. (1012) ?? of Swabia (dau of Konrad I, Duke of Swabia, by Rechlind of Germany)
  (2) Dobronega Maria of Kiev EGHJSWY
  m. (1041/2) Casimir I , Count of Poland (b 25.07.1016, d 28.11.1058) EGHJSWY

Main source(s): GenEU (Rurikids1, 8), 'RoyalData'
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