Prince of Kiev, Yaroslav I Vladimirovich the

Birth Name Prince of Kiev, Yaroslav I Vladimirovich the 1a 2 3a 4a 5a 5b 6a 7a
Gramps ID I28772
Gender male
Age at Death unknown

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E37673] BET. 978 - 980 of Kiev, Ukraine  
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Death [E37674] 1053/4-02-20 (Julian) Kiev, Ukraine  
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_FA1 [E37675]   Acceded: 1019.  
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_FA2 [E37676]   AKA the Great Duke of Russia and the Prince of Holmgarth.  
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_FA3 [E37677]   Grand Duke of Kiev, Grand Prince of Novgorod & Kiev.  
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Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Prince of Kiev, St. Vladimir the Great [I28808]9601015-07-15
Mother of Polotsk, Rogneda [I30263]9621002
         Prince of Kiev, Yaroslav I Vladimirovich the [I28772] BET. 978 - 980 1053/4-02-20 (Julian)

Families

    Family of Prince of Kiev, Yaroslav I Vladimirovich the and Olafsdottir, Ingigerd (Anna) of Sweden [F11233]
Married Wife Olafsdottir, Ingigerd (Anna) of Sweden [I28770] ( * 1001 + 1049/50-02-10 (Julian) )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E58443] FEB 1018/19 Uppsala, Sweden  
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Marriage [E58444] 1019 Ukraine  
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  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Yaroslavna, Anastasiya Agmunda of Kiev [I31835]10231074
Yaroslavna, Anna Agnesa of Kiev [I28773]about 1024BET. 1076 - 1089
Prince of Kiev, Izyaslav I Dmitrij [I30984]10251078-10-03
Prince of Kiev, Vsevolod I Yaroslavich of Kiev [I30985]10301093-04-13
Yaroslavna, Elizaveta of Kiev [I29961]1032

Narrative

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Burke calls him Great Duke of Russia. Snorri Sturlasson call him Prince of
Holmgarth and shows his children as Holti-Nimble, Vissivald, Ellisif.

Donald Lines Jacobus (1883-1970), the "Founder of Scientific
Genealogy in America" wrote an article in The American Genealogist (TAG)
9:13-15 entitled "The House of Rurik." I quote: "To correct the many
errors that have appeared in print, and to aid those who follow the pastime
of tracing "royal ancestry," the following condensed account of the early
Rurikides is here printed. It is based in large part on "Genealogies et
Mariages Occidentaux des Rurikides Russes du Xe au XIIIe Siecle," published
at Rome in 1927 as Vol. IX, No. 1, of *Orientalia Christiana.* The author,
N. de Baumgarten, is probably the best living authority on early Russian
history, and every statement made on the fourteen genealogical tables of
his monograph is fully supported by the citation of contemporary documents
and chronicles."

I am not attacking Jacobus, who is a giant among genealogists and
certainly needs no defenders. Neither am I disagreeing with Alexander
Agamov, in Moscow, who has pointed out that there is no credible evidence
that Rurik was ever "Prince of Kiev" and progenitor of the line beginning
with Igor, Grand Prince of Kiev, who married Olga. I hope Alexander Agamov
is reading this. Some historians and genealogists, Russians in particular,
have taken sharp issue with the theory that the Kievan Rus was founded by
a "Dane" rather than a "Slav"----and the evidence for "The Varangian
Theory" seems fragmentary and inconclusive, at best.

G. Andrews Moriarty and Walter L. Sheppard in TAG 28:91-95 also
quote the N. de Baumgarten material as authoritative [specifically
"Orientalia Christiana, No. 119, N. de Baumgarten, "Aux Origines de la
Russie," p. 79. Both Jacobus and Moriarty/Sheppard headline their charts
with "Rurik (d. 879) Grand Prince of Kiev." Jacobus probably did not read
10th to 13th century Russian. But--- some of us may.

For anyone who might conceivably have access to the original, 1927,
N. de Baumgarten source---is it provable that, "every statement made on the
fourteen genealogical tables of his monograph is fully supported by the
citation of contemporary documents and chronicles?"

Or, is it possible that Jacobus and the other experts simply
trusted in N. de Baumgarten's scholarship and professionalism---and did not
really check out the facts themselves. The Editor of a journal, such as
TAG, certainly cannot check out every fact and document himself. But, in
this particular case, Jacobus gives the N. de Baumgarten material his
personal imprimatur, as cited above [TAG 9:13, Paragraph 2]

So----has N. de Baumgarten in his "Orientalia Christiana"---dealing
with "The House of Rurik"---been totally discredited by subsequent rigorous
scholarship---or does his judgment still seem credible to some serious
scholars----or are there alternate explanations?

This is an intriguing question of interest to many folks who are
descended from Anne of Kiev (c. 1024-c.1066) [Anna Yaroslavna] who married
Henry I, King of France.

Pedigree

  1. Prince of Kiev, St. Vladimir the Great [I28808]
    1. of Polotsk, Rogneda [I30263]
      1. Prince of Kiev, Yaroslav I Vladimirovich the
        1. Olafsdottir, Ingigerd (Anna) of Sweden [I28770]
          1. Yaroslavna, Anastasiya Agmunda of Kiev [I31835]
          2. Yaroslavna, Anna Agnesa of Kiev [I28773]
          3. Prince of Kiev, Izyaslav I Dmitrij [I30984]
          4. Prince of Kiev, Vsevolod I Yaroslavich of Kiev [I30985]
          5. Yaroslavna, Elizaveta of Kiev [I29961]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Agamov, Alexander [S286823]
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        Jaroslav I The Wise

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  2. Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science: University of Hull Royal Database (England) [S283806]
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        b 978

  3. Marlyn Lewis: Ahnentafel for Margery Arundell [S286829]
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        Grand Duke of Kiev

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  4. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: LDS Ancestral File [S288681]
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  5. large-G675.FTW [S286834]
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  8. Aiken, Tom [S286833]
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  9. large-G675.FTW [S468232]