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- [S10709] FindAGrave Old World (Famous), Anne of Kiev 1024-1075 Queen of France.
Anna Agnesa Yaroslavna -- Queen Consort of France. She was the daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev and Prince of Novgorod, and his wife, Princess Ingegard of Sweden. Little is definitively known about her childhood or education, although some historians have deduced she was literate and learned French in preparation for her marriage to a King of France. She was married on May 19, 1051 at Reims Cathedral to King Henry I of France (French: Henri) and was crowned immediately following the marriage ceremony. She was the second wife of the King who married her in the desire to produce a male heir to the throne and had gone as far afield as Russia seeking a bride in the desire to contract a marriage that was not consanguineous, frowned upon by the Roman Catholic church at the time. She produced three sons, two surviving to adulthood. It is not entirely clear, but some historians feel the surviving evidence indicates she converted from her native Eastern Orthodox faith to Roman Catholicism based, in part, upon a letter written by the Pope and addressed to her regarding her husband's opposition to Gregorian reforms within the church. She is credited with the restoration of the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Senlis. Her husband died on August 4, 1060 and she served as co-regent during the minority of her eldest son, Philip I (French: Philippe), along with Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. She entered a second marriage to Ralph IV, Count of Valois (French: Raoul, comte de Valois), probably in 1061. Her second marriage was controversial as her second husband was a near relative of her first husband, within the forbidden degree of affinity dictated by Roman Catholic church doctrine, and her second husband was bigamously married to another spouse. Her second husband was excommunicated for these transgressions, although Anne escaped that fate. Raoul died in 1074. Anne died not long afterward, in 1075.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7645955/anne_of_kiev
- [S325] Wikipedia: Anne of Kiev, Anna Agnesa Yaroslavna.
Anne of Kiev (c. 1030 – 1075), Anna Yaroslavna, Anna of Rus also called Agnes, in France known initially as Anne de Russie[1] or Agnes de Russie,[2] was the queen consort of Henry I of France, and regent of France during the minority of her son, Philip I of France, from 1060 until 1065.
Anne founded St. Vincent Abbey in Senlis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Kiev
- [S984] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2003;), Database online.
Record for Grand Prince of Kiev Jaroslav I
- [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.
- [S326] Wikipedia: Henry I of France, Henri Capet I.
Henry I (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060) was King of the Franks from 1031 to 1060, the third from the House of Capet. The royal demesne of France reached its smallest size during his reign, and for this reason he is often seen as emblematic of the weakness of the early Capetians. This is not entirely agreed upon, however, as other historians regard him as a strong but realistic king, who was forced to conduct a policy mindful of the limitations of the French monarchy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_France
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1036 - 1075 (39 years)
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