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From: (Pia Rink)
Subject: Re: Monomakh and Glebovitj
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:47:58 +0100
References: <1eo2d5l.7zbkvn14wykmnN%pia@rink.dk>, <3A78D488.5D7E@cityline.ru>



Andrew S. Kalinkin <> wrote:

>This is the last mention of him. As Richeza of Poland married third
>time to King Sverker of Sweden(d.1156), and Volodar outlived him, so it
>is supposed that he and Richeza were divorced. This is now the most
>popular theory, but still it is far from being universally accepted,
>let alone proven.

Dear Andrew S. Kalinkin

I read your mail on the different theories of the identification of
Volodar Glebovitz several times with wide open eyes. :-) I wish there
were som more cronicles in this part of the world.

>it is supposed that he and Richeza were divorced.

If Richeza and Volodar actually were divorced, why would they? In those
days divorces were not so common and often had a political reason.
Afterwards Richeza married King Sverker 1 of Sweden (king from 1134, d.
1156), and to my knowledge her son from the marriage with Magnus, King
Knud 5 (d. 1157), married a daughter of King Sverker 1 (don't know her
name). And Sverkers first wife, Ulvhild, was a widow after Magnus'
father King Niels (d. 1134, his second wife).

It all stayed in the family ... And it was in the days, when
Christianity was established in Sweden ...

Kind regards from

Pia

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