Marriage and Children
Leszek married Grzymislawa of Luck in 1207. She was the daughter of Grand Prince Ingvar of Kiev, the ruler of Lutsk and its vicinity, a part of Galicia. Thus this marriage was part of Leszek's policy of eastward expansion.
Leszek's and Grzymislawa's daughter Salomea was born in 1211. She married King Coloman of Galicia-Lodomeria, the son of King Andrew II of Hungary. The marriage occurred in about 1215 when Salome was 4 and Kaloman was 7. They were the intended rulers of Galicia–Volhynia, but as noted above these plans failed and they never took up rule in that area.
Leszek and Grzymislawa were also the parents of Bolesław V the Chaste, who assumed the Polish throne at Kraków in 1243, and Helen, who married Vasylko Romanovich of Halych, son of Roman the Great.
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