Sviatopolk II of Kiev - Marriage and Children

Marriage and Children

Sviatopolk married a Bohemian princess (Přemyslid dynasty)

  1. Zbyslava, married to king Boleslaw III of Poland on November 15, 1102.
  2. Predslava, married to Prince Álmos of Hungary on August 21, 1104. Her fate is less known.
  3. Anna (died 1136), married to Sviatoslav Davydych from Chernihiv who turned into a monk upon her death.
  4. Iaroslav (died 1123), Prince of Volynia and Turov was married three times - to Hungarian, Polish, and Kievan princesses. In consequence of Iaroslav's early death, his descendants forfeited any right to the Kievan throne and had to content themselves with Turov and Pinsk. It is possible that Iaroslav was a son of Olena.

and in 1094 to a daughter of Tugor Khan of the Kypchaks, Olena

  1. Maria, married Piotr Włostowic, castellan of Wroclaw and Polish palatine.
  2. Bryachislav (1104–1127), possibly dethroned Iaroslav as the Prince of Turov (1118–1123) in 1118.
  3. Izyaslav (died 1127), possibly the Prince of Turov in 1123.

Some sources claim that Sviatopolk used to have an out of wedlock son Mstislav who ruled Novgorod-Sieversky in 1095–1097 and later Volyn (1097–1099). It seems that he later was murdered in Volodymyr-Volynski.

There are little or no information on most of Svitopolk's children except Iaroslav and Zbyslava. Iaroslav and his children largely continued to rule the Principality of Turov, yielding Volyn.

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