Kunigund Orlamyund ( German Kunigunde von Orlamünde ; Irina ; 2nd half of the 1050s - after March 20, 1117 [K 1] ) - Russian princess, daughter of Count Orlamunde and Weimar Otton I and Adela Brabant, wife of Prince Volyn Yaropolk Izyaslavich . [K 2]
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Biography
Father, Otton Weimar, died early, in early 1067 . The mother of Kunigunda Adela in 1069 married Dedi , Margrave of the Luzhitsky brand . In about 1071-1072 [by 3] he gave his stepdaughter Kunigunda for Yaropolk, the son of the Prince of Kiev Izyaslav Yaroslavich . In Russia, Kunigund received a middle name Irina [K 4] .
In 1073-1076, Kunigunda shared exile with her husband and father-in-law. In 1075, she appeared with them at her stepfather Margrave Dedi.
After the death of Izyaslav Yaroslavich in 1078, she lived with her husband and his mother Gertruda in Volyn.
At the beginning of 1086 , during the war with Vsevolod Yaroslavich and Rostislavich , when Yaropolk left for Poland for help, leaving Kunigunda and Gertrude in Lutsk , Vladimir Monomakh took Lutsk, captured his mother and wife and took him to Kiev. According to Nazarenko’s version, Gertrude soon died, leaving Kunigunde with the Trier hymn . After returning from Poland, Yaropolk made peace with Vladimir, but was killed in November 1086.
After the death of Yaropolk Kunigund, taking her youngest daughter with her , she returned to her homeland to her sister Oda and her husband Ekbert Meissensky , and soon married Kuno Northheim (d. 1103), the younger brother of Heinrich Tolstoy , Eckbert's ally. According to the possessions of his wife, Kuno became known as the Count of Beichlingen. She married her daughter to Gunther, Count of Kefernburgsky.
In late 1099 - early 1100, Henry Tolstoy received the Frisian stamp and decided to intermarry with the local nobility. He married two of his young nieces, the eldest daughters Kuno and Kunigunda, to the rulers of Zütphen and Luxembourg. However, he did not manage to get any advantages from these marriages, in 1101 he died. And in 1103, Kuno Beikhlingensky was killed with his two vassals, and Henry the Elder died in the same year. Having lost influential relatives, Kunigund was forced to seek a third marriage. In 1110, she married Viprecht Groychsky (d. 1124), later Margrave of the Luzhitsky and Meissen marks . Her youngest daughter Kunigunda in the same year married the son of her stepfather, also named Viprecht. Such a double wedding made it possible to secure the inheritance of Kunigunda for the descendants of Viprecht.
In 1112, a distant relative of Kunigund Ulrich Weimar died without heirs on the male side, both Emperor Henry V and Kunigund's nephew Siegfried von Ballenstedt claimed his lands as a maternal relative. Viprecht Groichsky intervened in the struggle on the side of his wife's relatives. In the same year or early next Wiprecht concluded an alliance against the emperor with the Thuringian count Ludwig Skakun , the father-in-law of the deceased Ulrich Weimar, and Siegfried von Ballenstedt. Events developed unsuccessfully for the Allies. Siegfried was wounded and died on March 9, 1113. Viprecht was captured and sentenced to death, replaced by confiscation of all his possessions. Until 1117, he was imprisoned in the prison of Trifels Castle. Viprecht Jr. died in 1117. The last mention of Kunigund dates back to this time (March 20, 1117); she probably died shortly after this date (at least earlier than her husband). [2] [4]
Marriage and children
Around 1071-1072 [5] , Kunigunda married Yaropolk Izyaslavich (d. November 22, 1086). Children:
- Anastasia (1074 - January 3, 1158), approximately in 1086, married Minsk Prince Gleb Vseslavich .
- daughter [K 5] (in German sources Matilda ; born c. 1076 [K 6] ), in 1087/1088 she married Gunther [K 7] , count of Kefernburg, the ancestor of the counts of Schwarzburg . From this marriage Zizzo von Kefernburg was born.
- Yaroslav (d. August 11, 1102), Prince of Berestey
- Vyacheslav (d. 13 December 1104)
At the end of 1087 - the beginning of 1088, Kunigunda married a second time to Kuno Northheim (d. 1103), the son of Otton Northheim . Children:
- Matilda [7] [K 8] (genus approx. 1088/1089 [K 9] ), approx. 1100 [8] married Heinrich of Zutphen, son of Otton the Rich .
- Liutgard [7] [K 10] (genus approx. 1089/1090 [K 11] ), approx. 1100 [8] married William I of Luxembourg .
- Adela [7] (approx. 1090/1094 - 1123), around 1100/1106, married Dietrich III, Earl of Katlenburg (d. August 12, 1106), [K 12] and after his death, Count Helferich von Pölckau (mind . 1118), a proprietor of the Counts von Stade, who owned the Northern mark , later the Northern mark passed to him.
- Kunigund [7] (second half of the 1090s - 1140), in 1110 she married Wiprecht the Younger of Grochsky (d. 1117), and the second marriage, which took place after March 1127, for Count Dipold III, Margrave of the Northern Bavarian mark, representative of the house of Dipoldings [K 13]
In 1110, Kunigunda married Viprecht Groychsky (d. 1124). They had no children.
Family Relations
Ancestors
| William I (Count of Weimar) | ||||||||||||||||
| William II (Count of Weimar) | ||||||||||||||||
| William III (Count of Weimar) | ||||||||||||||||
| Otton I (Earl of Weimar) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Kunigund Orlamyund | ||||||||||||||||
| Rainier III (Count of Hainaut) | ||||||||||||||||
| Lambert I (Earl of Louvain) | ||||||||||||||||
| Adele | ||||||||||||||||
| Lambert II (Earl of Louvain) | ||||||||||||||||
| Charles I (Duke of Lower Lorraine) | ||||||||||||||||
| Herberg of Lorraine | ||||||||||||||||
| Adela Brabant | ||||||||||||||||
| Gottfried I (Earl of Verdun) | ||||||||||||||||
| Gozelo I (Duke of Lorraine) | ||||||||||||||||
| Matilda of Saxony | ||||||||||||||||
| Oda Lorraine | ||||||||||||||||
Comments
- ↑ The year 1140 is considered the traditional date of death, but it most likely refers to the youngest daughter of Kunigunda Kunigund von Beichlingen [1] [2] [3] [4] .
- ↑ Historians for a long time could not decide which of the Russian princes was the husband of Kunigund. The candidatures of Igor Yaroslavich and Izyaslav Yaroslavich were called. From the beginning of the XX century, it is considered established that the husband of Kunigund was Yaropolk
- ↑ In historiography, the wedding of Kunigund and Yaropolk is also attributed to the time of his stay in Germany, that is, to about 1075. But in 1074, a daughter was already born to Yaropolk, which means that the wedding was a year or two earlier, at least. Narrow dating 1071-1072 years belongs to Nazarenko [5]
- ↑ It would be wrong to say that at the same time she crossed herself into Orthodoxy. [6]
- ↑ Her name is unknown. On various online resources of the genealogical plan, the name Mehtild is attributed to her, but her name does not appear in serious literature.
- ↑ Estimated date of birth and date of marriage with Gunther are based on the approximate date of birth of Zizzo - approx. 1090 years. She, in turn, is based on the fact that already in 1103 Zizzo was mentioned as an independent person.
- ↑ The Saxon annalist who reports on this marriage does not specify for which particular Thuringian Count Gunther the daughter of Kunigunda married, but the names “Gunter” and “Zizzo” are the family names of the Schwarzburg house
- ↑ The genealogy guide is listed as Matilda. But the Saxon annalist, from whom the marriage data of Kunigund and her daughters are taken, does not know her name.
- ↑ Based on the wedding date of Kunigunda and Kuno, as well as the wedding date of the daughter of Kunigunda and Henry.
- ↑ The genealogy guide is listed as Liutgard. The Saxon annalist does not know her name.
- ↑ Based on the wedding date of Kunigunda and Kuno, as well as the wedding date of the daughter of Kunigunda and Wilhelm.
- ↑ Dietrich was the son of Gertrude of Braunschweig from his first marriage with Dietrich II of Catleburg. Gertrude's third husband was Kunigunda's brother Henry the Elder
- ↑ According to Nazarenko’s version, through this marriage, the Trier psalter fell into the house of the Dipoldings.
Notes
- ↑ Brandenburg Erich. Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen. I.-XIV. Generation. - Leipzig, 1935. Neudruck mit Korrekturen 1998. - S. 52.
- ↑ 1 2 Hildebrand Ruth: Herzog Lothar von Sachsen. Verlag August Lax Hildesheim 1986 S. 19
- ↑ Friedheim, Rainer: Wiprecht von Groitzsch. Sturz in die Tiefe. Schütze-Verlag München-Solln 1958 S. 590
- ↑ 1 2 Ancient Russia in the light of foreign sources. - T. IV. - S. 470.
- ↑ 1 2 See Nazarenko A.V. Ancient Russia on international routes. - S. 526-527.
- ↑ Nazarenko A.V. “Zelo is unbelievably true” (Interfaith marriages in Russia in the XI-XII centuries) // Bulletin of history, literature, art: almanac. - M: Collection, 2005 .-- T. 1 . - S. 269—279 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Grafen von Beichlingen (Northeim ) . Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. Date of treatment August 3, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Ancient Russia in the light of foreign sources. - T. IV. - S. 234.
Literature
- Nazarenko A.V. Ancient Russia on international routes: Interdisciplinary essays on cultural, commercial, political relations of the 9th-12th centuries. - M .: Languages of Russian Culture, 2001 .-- 784 p. - (Studia Historica). - 1000 copies. - ISBN 5-7859-0085-8 .
- Saxon Annalist = Annalista Saxo // MGH, SS. VI. - Hannover, 1844.
- Ancient Russia in the Light of Foreign Sources / Jackson T.N., Konovalova I.G. Volume IV West European sources. / Nazarenko A.V. - M .: University of Dmitry Pozharsky, 2010.
- Morozova L. E. The Great and Unknown Women of Ancient Rus. - M .: AST, 2009.