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Birth:          ABT 1011 of Kiev, Ukraine
Death:          1087 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Dobroniega_of_Kiev
Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (b. aft. 1012[1] – d. 1087), was a Kievian Rus princess of 
the Rurikid dynasty and by marriage Duchess of Poland.
Life[edit]

Family[edit]

She was one of the younger children of Vladimir I, Grand Prince of Kiev. The identity 
of her mother is disputed among historians and web sources.

Grand Prince Vladimir I had married seven times and had fathered many children, 
legitimate and illegitimate. Anna Porphyrogeneta, his sixth wife, is known to have 
predeceased Vladimir by four years. Chronicle Thietmar of Merseburg, writing from 
contemporary accounts, mentions that Boleslaw I of Poland captured Vladimir I's 
widow during his raid on Kiev in 1018. The historians long had no clue as to identity of 
this wife. The emigre historian Nicholas Baumgarten, however, pointed to the 
controversial record of the "Genealogia Welforum" and the "Historia Welforum 
Weingartensis" that one daughter of Count Kuno von Oenningen (future Duke Konrad 
I of Swabia) by "filia Ottonis Magni imperatoris" (Otto the Great's daughter; possibly 
Rechlinda Otona [Regelindis], claimed by some as illegitimate daughter and by others 
legitimate, born from his first marriage with Edith of England) married "rex Rugorum" 
(King of Rus). He interpreted this evidence as pertaining to Vladimir I's last wife. This 
woman is a possible identity for Maria's mother.

Marriage[edit]

Maria married around 1040 to Casimir I the Restorer, Duke of Poland. This marriage 
helped Casimir to gain support in his reclaim over the Polish throne. Casimir had 
attempted to seize the throne twice before, both times he failed. With the support of 
Maria's brother, Yaroslav I the Wise, Casimir was able to make a successful claim.

The couple had five children:[2]
1.Boleslaw II the Bold (b. c. 1043 – d. 2/3 April 1081/82).
2.Wladyslaw I Herman (b. c. 1044 – d. 4 June 1102)
3.Mieszko (b. 16 April 1045 – d. 28 January 1065).
4.Otto (b. c. 1046 – d. 1048).
5.Swietoslawa (b. c. 1048 – d. 1 September 1126), married c. 1062 to Duke (and since 
1085 King) Vratislaus II of Bohemia.

Maria's husband died on 28 November 1058. Her sixteen-year-old son, Boleslaw, 
became King of Poland. Boleslaw II is considered one of the most capable of the Piast 
rulers. However, he was deposed & expelled from the country in 1079. Boleslaw II died 
two years later, in 1081.

Maria survived her son by six years, dying in 1087, aged seventy-six or seventy-seven.

Parents
SWJATOSLAWITSCH VLADIMIR I "The Great" ( 955 - 15 Jul 1015)
____ Anna Porphyrogenita (13 Mar  963 - 1011)

Siblings
VLADIMIROVNA OF KIEV Debronega Marie (Dobronegra Mariya) (ABT 1011 - 1087)

Marriage To KAROL Kazimerz (Casimir) I "the Restorer" "The Great" (25 Jul 1018 - 28 Nov 1058)
    m. ABT 1040 

Notes

Parents
____ Mieszko (Mieszylaw) II (ABT  990 - 10 May 1034)
OF PFALZ-LORRAINE Richenza (Rixa) (ABT  995 - 21 Mar 1063)

Children by KAROL Kazimerz (Casimir) I "the Restorer" "The Great" 25 Jul 1018 - 28 Nov 1058
HERMAN Wladislaw (Ladislas) I (ABT 1043 - 4 Jun 1102)

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