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Subject: Re: Getting the ball rolling...
Date: 10 Jun 1995 20:56:30 GMT
> writes:
> In article <3r46gg$> (Thorleif Christoffer Owe) writes:
> >My source is 'Vaare forfedre' by Mogens Bugge (in Norwegian), published 1939.
> >He says that Sofia was not a daughter of Wolodar, but had the following
> >ancestry:
>
> 9. Christine of Sweden (died 18/1 1122)
> {{So who would her father be? She's smack in the middle of a hole in my info
> on the K's of Sweden}}
Christina's father is Inge the Elder, king of Sweden about 1080, dead between 1100 and
1110.
> 4. generation
> 8. Wseslaw (died 14/4 1101), duke of Polotzk, grand duke of Kiev 1068-69.
> {{I seriously question whether Wseslaw was GD of Kiev; that title passed
> from Wladimir I to Yaroslav I, and then to the children of Yaroslav.
According to the _Nestor Chronicle_ Vseslav held Kiev for 7 month. He was
in 1069 driven back to Polock by Izjaslav, who re-established
himself as grand duke.
Anders
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